Show I a Fern Andra Pausing Pausin for for fora a Draught of in Greece Grecco Shrine Water Iter at a n Wayside Daring During Her lIer Exotic From Wanderings From lIer Private Scrapbook R z i 1 16 6 a Say A e a U Ii u a ron ess l L n 1 3 1 k Wh Why Germanys Gene Ge e Tunney Is Suing F 1 a a t Adventurous Fern Andra Ancira for Divorce Pi Mf After Afier a Hectic Match Klatch That Cut Cui Short Shoil His n Ring J k Y Er n r k t R v t Career C F I There I was in the J 1 3 power r of a madman then n tha with nothing but a t frail Crail railing oa r 4 between myself and nd six rr i. i R li the pavement pa J stories below Depicting a Y Dramatic Episode I s 's r rt from Fern Andras Andra's s sY sI n tk h k Memoirs FERN ANDRA prominent BARONESS B actress and Kurt handsomest of German pugilists have o come to the parting of the ways was Charging the capricious beauty with conduct unbecoming a wife the boxer has sued her for her for divorce orce And the con con- consensus consensus consensus of club and cafe gossip ossip is We arent aren't surprised it couldn't last I Thus ends with a sharp snap a n romance that was in its way as picturesque as Bernard Shaws Shaw's The Admirable wherein a great lady took as her mate an Adonis of the ring But Dut where the Irish dramatist wrote a happy ending to the tune of wedding bells the Andra situation has resolved itself into a note of irony with tragic overtones For those who know the tho stalwart but sensitive Kurt intimately believe that Fern was the one love of his life and that he will never recover from the shock of his shattered shat shat- shattered shattered idyl A years ears ago the blond expert was quietly quietly to the raven-haired raven noblewoman She was then the Baroness von und and zu Weichs zur Born Dorn in a suburb of Chicago this titled loftily lady had come into the world as plain Fern Andrews But she was not destined to linger long lon in obscurity Surpassingly hand hand- handsome handsome handsome some she came cameto cameto I Ito to the attention of theatrical and when she wearied of life before tho the footlights in the theUn United Un i t e d States Stales I f r what more nat nat- natural natural natUral ural than for her herto herto to flit to the Con Con- Continent N a t Within a n short space of timo time Fern A Andrews n d r e w a became an idol Y of the German motion mot ion picture public Numbered r among the throng t of her admirers was Kurt 4 He lie haunted the cinema c i n em a palaces 3 where her re releases re re- 1 I leases eases e a 8 e s- s r we r o 0 shown and there therewith therewith with suitable for fol formality malit sought mality an introduction In t tro r 0 to the dashing brunette bru bru- brunette v nette neUe who had so k firmly captivated capt 5 S his his fanc fancy The Tho A i J wooing was rap rap- rapId A I. I id intense and ardent Fern was wasa Ferns Fern's s Varied Career has lias hasa Iasa a widow her first Included Apache Dancing J husband She Is Pictured Here with Ith a having perished in the Continental Partner artner I World War There was no reason son why she should not make a second alliance and she did Kurt Burt was at the height of his career as a boxer at the time of his marriage A distinguished war record terminating in his incarceration in a British prison camp had served to make him even more loved in his homeland When the armistice enabled the public to return to its former interest in sports blotted out for a time by the business of battle he added to his hi laurels in the ring Then came marriage and a change in his good fortune lie soon loon found out that rounds of cab cab- cabarets cabarets and md night clubs were far different from tho the roun rounds round u of or the the ring and feeling fee line that a selection was necessary he chose to give up his profession and adopt the role of cavalier to please his hi adored bride lie and his beautiful wife were seen at all the fashionable places in Berlin Derlin He lIe was blindly in love When hen confronted by friends with rumors concerning his wife he denied them all aU with im Im- implicit Implicit pl cit faith 1 believe everything ing she ane tells me would lie bc his rejoinder So much beauty could not have been meted out to one person without an equal amount of oC honesty and truth Fern Andra the name the Baroness had hadi i 1 At Right R. R h t Fern rm And Andra making up Kurt urt for a Stage Sta e uP Appearance from froma r a Snapshot Taken Back Dack BackStage a brt nta Stage e Just Ju t After Their r Honeymoon hone moon K b 7 1 1 o oI I r 9 5 rte ti x S S i iAM J AMERICAN AM CONSULAR Il d 1 Ltd i I j i i r When hen in Merlin Berlin During the World lorld War ar Baroness Andra Constantly in Communication with the American Embassy Over tier Her Status and Safety Here is s a Portion of a Letter to Her C from the U. U S. S Consul adopted in German pictures persuaded him bim to give up his career and enter the films He played opposite her and met with great reat success lIe He didn't have to be a great actor The people loved him him for himself and were loyaL Like an an- another another another other great boxer of another country who ad ad- admits admits admits mits he cannot sing and can dance less but whose adoring countrymen still greet reet him in the field of musical comedy as le Ie Georges Kurt Pren Pren- Frenzel zel was their idol their hero bero their blond box- box kampfer lIe He never bothered such bothered such is real rc I love love to to ask Fern Tern about her past Had he cared to he might have nave cabled to America for a copy of the viva viva- 1 cious dous actress' actress memoirs And therein he would have found many ninny surprising facts fancies and adventures Starting as n a toe dancer Fern had graduated into aerial work She was waa doing her scuff on the high wire in Kurts Kurt's native Germany when the World War broke out An intense American girl she was outspoken in her views which fact together with her fre fre- frequent frequent frequent quent association with wills members of or the American Embassy at that time in the hands of oC Ambas Ambas- Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Gerard led to her arrest as an American spy spy- She was confined con lined in prison and sentenced to tobe be shot Weeks of terrified waiting followed Fralan tur earn 12 a huge American flag of ot flowers anonymously sent It caused a a ariot riot in the thel lobby l The Germans were about to tear the flag to f pieces when the actress ran S and before S A il out standing the floral piece enacted a scene that might well have been a apart apart 7 part of or one of her film stories This was her country's co flag she said and she would allow no one to molest it s p The Germans hesitated a moment momen r a then cheered the 4 and plucky girl s c When she arrived in to America after an and d t s 's r t. t absence of ten years on the eve of Count Countr r Salm's marriage to Millicent Rogers the Standard Oil heiress a there were many who thought it sig sig- significant significant but the Baroness denied any r intention of frustrating the match Fern had taught him the art artof artof of making love before the L. L S camera but there was no personal romance r s The Baroness recounted many startling experiences in ins s her memoirs She told of one occasion when she was being 4 pursued by a jealous ad admirer J Said Bey the cousin w fern bie de of a f f Su tot bes von Set bee Zal ba am a s t 5 mu to io t tins chi clit tD ju su j ft i tn in ht icy tie bit fu nut STIno nub S Of e t r p ift It beS fie it mit ml Cc iun ret in Ire the they y s f h v tS y nob bee 7 Count CountI I Ludwig Saint Salm von ron t n 1 Vii Who Married t e W and Was r t. t Divorced from front the tho American a i V i r Rogers Ro ers Fern Taught faught ht Him lIim i to make love lore in the Movies lo But good luck eventually came to lo her ner aid Among Amon her admirers was Baron Haron von on Weichs a powerful relative of the family famil Just as everything looked hopeless the Baron descended upon her in prison with an nn offer of marriage The wedding weddin took place behind prison walls Fern Andra thus became a German citizen citizen citi citi- citizen zen and a relative of oC the royal house and the death sentence was nullified The Baron Daron was ordered to the front with his regiment re and having fought through the war was killed in one of the tragic encounters follow follow- following following following ing the armistice and preceding the cessation tion of hostilities Meanwhile the Baroness back in Berlin Derlin was adding to her first favor as a European picture actress Scorning the usual movie movie- double she was the personal exponent of daring stunts hair- hair raising raisins airplane flights and desperate physical achievements which made her a sensation among the amazed At one time when she was making a n personal persona appearance in a theatre she was the recipient of I H Denunciatory D e y Clipping from 0 8 T Z German Newspaper Published at tho Timo Time Ferri Feni Was Accused of Being a Spy Sp I of or Mohammed VI Sultan of Turkey She was Wa wasat wasat at the time engaged in a theatrical production in Berlin and had managed successfully to elude him But he continued to dog her steps and she taw saw hint him l m in the audience at every performance Ho lIe managed to break into her apartment at atthe atthe atthe the Hotel Adlon when she sho was entertaining a party of friends Wishing to avoid a scene she asked him to step into another room There in instead in- in instead Instead stead of listening to reason he tore about the apartment in a rage Finally he seized her and dragging her out to a balcony fastened his hands about her throat and grappling with her hissed brutal threats in her ear car You have repeatedly escaped me but you will never escape again a In the Baroness records his having screamed With superhuman strength he resisted all my m efforts df to free myself she con con- There I was in the power of a madman with nothing but a frail railing between me and the pavement pa six stories below But Dut just as she felt her last ounce of oC strength ebbing her friends came to her rescue Over Over- Overcoming Overcoming Overcoming coming Said Bey they the dragged him back into i 1 ithe Ithe the room and amI prepared prepare to send for the police But Dut Fern would not hear of oC it Turning to Said Bey D y she said Will you you promise to go away and never nevel bother me again JC If f you Ou do not promise I will call the police and nd have havo you ou lily Sui-lily Said Bey Dey agreed and l he ho has not troubled Fern ern Andra since It is experiences such as these that have punctuated the life of the German Baroness picture star stunt flyer and professional beauty who started out in life as Fern Andrews vaude vaude- vaudeville vaudeville y ville ille performer Now with her latest romance on the rocks she will probably continue her film career ant and ana friends believe that her former formel husband the blond boxing Adonis will endeavor to regain re ain his Ilia l s championship of the ring rin ring but but but with an aching heart t for his hi lost dream girl irl t |