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LOVING HER TH
Amazing Series of Misfortunes
Which Relentlessly Pursues
the Men Who Have Loved,
Admired or Been Closely As
sociated with Miss Pauline
Frederick, the Peerless Beauty
ANCIENT legends speak ot
beauty that was attended by
a curse. We have come, per
haps, to regard "the fatal gift of
beauty" as a Jest, but right In tho
heart of tho gay life of Now York
Is one who appears to possess It un
mistakably. Miss Pauline Frederick has been
pronounced on good authority the
most beautiful woman on tho Amer
ican stage. Sho is not only beauti
ful, but Bweet, charming, lovely,
sympathetic A long list of promt
sent men who have experienced her
harm and magnetic influence have
suffered, every kind of misfortune,
varying from financial ruin to death.
So persistent has misfortune been
among those men who have admired
Miss Frederick, or at least have
been closely associated with her,
that those who know her declare
that "loving her is the worst of hoo
doos." Tom Thome, a fellow player in
'The Fourtn Estate," committed
Bulclde. B. R. Thomas, tho gay
young millionaire who assisted
her producing "The Utile" Gray
Lady," was parted from hla
beautiful wife and terribly injured
in an automobllo accident. Wilbur
Bates, a prominent theatrical man,
lost his wife and his position after a
brief association with her.
And now comes the news that her
husband, Frank M. Andrews, one of
the most brilliant young architects
in New York, is in business difficult
ties.
The ill luck of Miss Frederick's
associated Is the more remarkable
because she has been singularly for
tunate in her own enterprises.
In three years she roso from the
humblest place In the stage army to
the proud position ot star. Five
years after her first appearance she
was voted at the Actors' Fund Fair
the moet popular actress in America.
Before her Lillian Russell and Mar
ine Elliott wero considered the lead
ing beauties of tho stage. At a
meeting ot the Dramatists Club
Pauline Frederick was declared the
auoen of American beauty. Harri
son Fisher, the artist, who is ccr
alnly one ot tho best Judges of
womanly beauty, has pronounced
her to be the purest typo of beauty
In the country.
Three years ago she and Thomas
Thome, a clever young actor whom
nearly everybody addressed as
"Tommy," wero playing In "The
Fourth Estate." Thorns was only
twenty-five years old, the descend
ant of a noted English stago family
and already on the high road to suc
cess. All who saw this ploy, writ
ten by tho multimillionaire, Joseph
Medlll Patterson, will remember the
young man's grim' characterization
of the imaginative young poet re
porter, who was so profoundly de
pressed by his first assignment, the
suicide of a woman who could no
longer "endure the ghastllnesB of
life." One morning "Tommy"
Thorne was found dead In his room.
Ho had hanged himself. A few Bald
he had been rendered melancholy
by the depressing character of the
part he had played nine times a
week In "The Fourth Estate." More
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''Miss Pauline Frederick has been pronounced the most
beautiful woman on the stage. The long list of
prominent men who have experienced her
charm and magnetic influence have suf
fered every kind of misfortune vary
ing from financial ruin to death."
shook their heads and were silent.
But members of the company said
quite frankly:
"The boy was hopelessly in love
with the leading woman. He knew
she was about to be married. He
knew there was no chance for him.
He believed he could not live with
out her and he ended his troubles
in thlB way."
Miss Frederlok moved In a grace
ful, stately way, onward in the path
of her fixed ambition.
Wilbur B. Bates, long associated
with a powerful theatrical firm, met
her. She reminded him that he had
been a classmate of her unclo's In
Boston. He undertook to further
her theatrical fortunes. His wife,
the beautiful Spanish fencer, Ja
quarlna, resented with all the fervor
of her nature her husband's admira
tion for bis college mate's beautiful
niece. Mr. Bates assured her she
was unreasonable He unkindly said
that every woman becomes panicky
at sight of a beauty. The breach
widened. After a year of domestic
hostilities Mrs. Bates impulsively
brought suit for divorce. Some
what to tho bewilderment of each, It
was granted. The theatrical world
inew Wilbur Bates no more.
When a second company of "The
Little Cray Lady" was organizing
for a tour of the West and South
the question ot finance became a
poignant one. E, R, Thomas, the
meteoric young multimillionaire, they
remembered, was a patron of the
arts, and had several times financed
dramatic and operatic productions.
Mr. Thomas was summoned for first
aid to the ailing organization. He
beheld Miss Frederick's beauty. He
financed the production, and shortly
afterward Mr. Thomas complained,
as Mr. Bates bad done, that his wife,
too, was unreasonable. But Mrs.
Thomas proved less unreasonable
than Mrs. Bates. Tho former beau
tiful Linda Lee, herself a famed
beauty from Kentucky, mot and her
self admired Miss Frederick. Great
beauties can afford to bo generous
and magnanimous.
But misfortune dogged Mr. Thomas.
After a panic ho confessed judg
ment for one and a quarter million
dollars. Tho Judge signed an order
garnlsheelng bis income, permitting
him the use only of a third ot it
until all tho debts had been paid.
It would take many years, perhaps
his full lifetime, to pay them.
That blow would have seemed
overwhelming to one of the young
turfman's princely taste3 but a
greater misfortune awaited him. In
an automobile wreck near Paris he
was injured and crippled for life.
Later his wlfo sued for, and secured,
a divorce.
Yet tills was in no sense Mis?
Frederick's fault. It was merely a
coincidence.
Three yearn ago Miss Frederick
married. Tha husband her beauty
won was Frank Androws, a very
brilliant architect, who designed
many great skyscrapers and whoso
business assoclato was Charles P.
Taft, brother of the then President,
William H. Taft.
Mr. Andrews obtained a divorce
and Beven days later he and Miss
FredencK went to New Jersey where
they were quietly married. Shortly
afterward she forsook tho stage, as
sho then said, forever.
A period of tho greatest artistic
productiveness for Mr. Androws fol
lowed. Under tho inspiration of his
second marrlago ho did tho best
work of his llfo. With tho most
boautltul faco recently soon on tho
American stage close bosido him,
and with one of Its sweetest voices
reminding him that architecture Is
frozen music and that she was mora
intensoly proud of his achievements
than of anything sho had ever done
on the stage, he designed tho Hotel
McAlpln in Now York.
Thero fashionable women went to
drink tea and to admire the rare,
soft blendings ot colors In the mu
ral decorations.
"They say his love for bis wife
was his Inspiration for this work,"
cooed the tea drinkers. "Sho is ono
of tho most beautiful women In
America and he's just crazy about
her."
So they said. What they are now
saying is different.
They have separated and aro say
ing all sorts of unkind things about
one another now. Mr. Andrews's am
bitious business plans have all gone
wrong. He drow un clans for the
Miss Pauline Frederick as She Appears in Her
Latest Photograph.
now Equitable building which would
havo been tho biggest skyscraper In
area In tho world. To build this
would have been tho biggest archi
tectural undertaking ot tho day, but
owing to a quarrel with multimil
lionaire Dupont tho Androws plans
were never carried out.
Mr. Androws Is not only separated
from his wlfo and his firm In tho
hands of a receiver, but ho has seri
ous troublo with nnother nctross, Mrs.
Ruth L. Trufant, who is bringing a
$50,000 breach of promise suit ngalns't
Honry G, Williams, proprietor of tho
Hotel York.
Mrs. Trufant alleges that Mr. An
drews made ardent lovo to her and
sought to part her from Mr. Will
lams. Mrs. Trufant wished Mr. Andrews
to nppear for her In her suit nnd tell
tho Court how much ho had loved her.
Mr. Andrews showed a shyness about
doing this, thinking that it might odd
to his many troubles.
Mrs. Trufant resented thlH, nnd pro
duced a number of remarkable loye
letters which, she said, had been writ
ten to her by Mr. Androws, and
which proved his devotion. Here Is
an example of ono ot the mildest
of those letters:
Dear-heart: It doesn't got any
cuslor, ana I find myself trying
to keep uwuy from myself as ono
avoids a disagreeable person. Your
absence Is un irreconcilable thing.
I cannot, and nevor will, grow
used to it. ... I want you
here with nic. I confess It awl
if I could wade out into mid
ocean and seize you from the
boat the manner and promptness
of your going would make people
' eit up nnd take notice.
I spent all last night at the
club, leaving thero this morning
at (1 o'clock. Know I could not
sleep for longing for you. Why
can't I take your dear, kind faco
in my hands nnd look Into your
oyos and road what thero is for
me? Do you lovo mo nny more
than him? With all your heart
do you miss me? Do you want
mo there nt your side? , . .
Pleaso answer all these ques
tions, my sweethenrt. I love you
with all ray heart. I miss you us
I cannot express. I want you
every moment. I am sad and un
happy. FRANK.
To return to the brilliant but traglo
fitory of Miss Paulino Frederick. On
tho horizon appears another admirer,
a multimillionaire bachelor whose
heart bus hitherto been regarded as
Impregnable. The stago aud society
are equully interested In tho question,
will tho hoodoo that pursues Miss
Frederick's admirers perch on him
too?
A line in tho play "Joseph and His
Brethren," in which she played Ppti
phar's wife, describes that character
thus: "Many men have loved her and
evil has overtaken them all. I know
en who dl"'-"