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Show 'FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL j I ROMANCE ENDS IN COURT O : N, E. A, Staff Correspondent. MILWAUKEE. May 22. This-is the last chapter of a famous international inter-national romance that has come to an end with the fllin? of a suit by Mrs. Amber Allis, asking dhorco from Cllbert Allis. scion of the family of E. P. Allis, foundci of the great Allls-Chalmers Co , manufacturing mammoth engines. . It might well be called 'The Wreck of the Allis Millions ' Mrs Allis has taken a small cottage Jon a Wisconsin lake, where she hopes to live quietly with her son and (laughter, (laugh-ter, Gilbert, Jr., 9, and Amber, 7, whoso custody she asks in her bill for divorce Her complaint charging cruelty and inability to support the children follows her husband's recent request before federal courts here that he be adjudged a bankrupt. Mrs. Allis says hr-r happiness lasted last-ed only three years after the weddlne in Europe in 1910. though the ' Juration Ju-ration by agreement came only this year. Gilbert Alii?, one of 11 children' of E. P. Allis. inherited $300,000 at: the time of his father's death ln 1390. His position in bankruptcy lists his liabilities at $11,000 and his assets at $800. At one tim the owner of stock in the Allis-Chalmers Co., a beautiful beauti-ful home on a big Montana ranch, and homes in New York, Paris, London Lon-don and Milwaukee, he has recently been selling player pianos The romance of Gilbert Allis and his wife attracted attention in America Ameri-ca and Europe. Mrs Allis. born ln Chicago, was on the London stage with Sir Henry Irving when Allis first saw her. He was living in Paris and had "run over to London '' Amber Am-ber Lawlord was her name then. They returned to America to live shortly if tervvard. Before her London appearance she had been playing with Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks before the screen hatl attracted attract-ed the now famous movie star. YVhen Mrs Allis deserted society to go to work as a dress designer a few I months ago. she took a cartoon in a comic paper for a text on which to hinge the announcement The cartoon showed St. Peter refusing re-fusing a society matron admittance to heaven- because that place would bore her without motors, money, dm-ners, dm-ners, dances, fads and fancies. I certainly dont want St Peter to deny me when I come, Mrs Allis said. |