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Show 'Perfect Model' Wins New Chance " I N. E. V Staff Special). SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Jan. S. Audrey Munson Is again on her way to fame and fortune! This after ostracism, poverty, hunger. hun-ger. She has obtained an opportunity to star In a moving picture production that. It is promised. will outshine I "Purity" and "Inspiration," in which she won world-wide celebrity. Audrey Munson famous as the world's perfect model was th? victim vic-tim of a murder and public opinion Combined, they dragged her from the heights of fame to the d pths ot despair. de-spair. POSED n 1 R PAMOI S 1RT. She had posed for much of the wonderful won-derful arr at the Panama-Pacific Exposition Ex-position In San Prancisco, Including the Kontl "Column of Progress" and "Descending Night." She was the or- igtnal of Daniel Chester French's Kvangeline" in Ccrftral park. New York, and "Suffering Humanity' In I the Booth memorial In Londo i Artists and soulptors vied for her services: moving picture producers competi d iin her, theatrical managers pursued her. Hit. U lliKINS MURDER The night of February '7. lyl'J. the police received a ill from the Long Island summer home of Dr. Waltei Keene Wilklns' a physician 01 ills wife had been beaten to death With a hammer. At first the authorities accepted Dr. Wilklns! statement that burglars had attacked himself ami his wife. Then came the discover) of Mrs. wiikins' will, bequeathing $75,000 to her husband. Also the discovery Ihut Audrey Munson and her mother, 0 had lied in the Wilku s" UOZUC lt .sw Vork, had disappeared. It was sold the Murisons had loft Wilklns" place several duys before too murder because Dr. Wilklns had annoyed an-noyed the young woman IK- was re-poited re-poited as having said to her: "Do..'t ever get married. If you do you will loso your symmetrical figure " DOCTOR RIl.Ls SEXiF. Dr Kllklns was tried. convicted, sentenced and committed suicide, protesting his innocence In a death note. But Audrey Munson had beccmo known to the world as "the woman In the case." She liael been found In Canada, where she had taken refuge, but had refused to return to testify In tho trial. It availed nothing that Dr. Wilklns in his cell had branded reports that 'he was interested In the beautiful mud-el mud-el as a "cruel lie." It availed nothing that she issued a statement in Canada that she was there In connection with her motion picture work and that the doctor's attitude at-titude toward her had been a proper one. ILL TURN . INM III K When Audrey Munson returned to America, she found every door closed against her. "The Wilklns' co.se has' ruined my life." she moaned. ' The public used to love and admire me. Now all I find everywhere Is hate." . . jy ; ll"1' I postd tor P' ' f 4 SCULPTORS .r?l " . W-M CLOD Hyp BECAME STAR S' " or -purity- k,'k '. LIVED IN iH AUDREY MUNSON 1 She sought employment In New t York. Detroit. Chicago. Her funds gave out. Finally, practically pennl-j Ii s she returned with her mother to! he r girlhood home In Syracuse. With her mother she went to Svra-j cuse merchants and begged work as a clerk; to restaurants where she sought a job n a waitress: flnall to the public library where she b"sought employment as an apprentice at 15 cents an hour. None would hire her. LIVING IN POVERTY. Meanwhile mother and daughter lived In one furnish. -d room, cooking their meagre meals on a iin plate attached to a let. Finally, after five weeks of tramping tramp-ing tin- streets in search of a job. while her mother sold kltchenware from door to dor, Audrey Munson disappeared from Syracuse. But finally she has been found again back in the furnished room, which the Munsons Will leave forever. INS NEW OPPORTUNITY. The look of sutrerlng anel emaciation emacia-tion is gone She's happy and hopeful. "I finally found an influential friend." she says: "it was a company that couldn't offer me employment it- H self, but interceded in my behalf with H a film concern what one I mustn't H "I've been given an advantageous H contract and an opportunity to come H back I'm only think of it! and H I have time to build a new career. We'll succeed, too. won't we mother?" And Audrey Munson's one true, friend In trial and trouble, smiled H back. "We'll try real hard." H The Question is: Will public opin- H Ion H |