South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 289, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 16 October 1921 — Page 26

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He low Pcpgy and Her Latest Millionaire Enamorate, Peter C. Mcrillon of Paris, from a Snapshot Taken on the Ileach at Atlantic Citv.

LITE, tor th winsome rcjcrcr Joyce, h jrrrt millicnaire after another. Ten of them, all ksown in the circles whore the pray world gt? itj latent tidbits of interetiogr gossip, already crown her diadem, or, more properly, are human pendants to her chain of millionaires. And outside of the ten who are known to have flitted about the

uniui;.-Miai;eu lamp, there are many, many more who have been, for fleeting moments, at taehed to her train. Scarcely has one of the men made h's exit before a successor is ready t- strp into hi place, like the well-trained soldiers of th Guards, who r.ever leave a vacant front rank sp. Three of the masculine ror?u.i;on have already led her to the altar, r.r.d one of them 13 now asking the Chicago courts t annul hi marriage, after having admitted spending more than Jl,f.00,000 on her during a single year. An. .her is reputt d to be in line for the position of fourth h-jsban h

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might I'.utter alx-ut a huge arc lamp in evening.- : a long summer? Professedly, she des not ock the r "I'm thrxugh with rich men.' :

I-r.t'.y. wi-n she appeared at Chicago to meet James Stanley Joyce's suit for annulment. "I may fall in love again, but 1 doubt !t. If I do, it wiil have to be with a poor man." . She had small opinion of the rich n an a a l.ushand. whatever for.dr.e?. she might have for him as. an admirer. Marriage, she said, tightened the strings on a million? ire's purse. 'They are more l.beral before they marry." -he said, "than th-y ever are aftcrvard," thu-? t lacing in another form the mooted question as

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ducive to pleasure. , Heverting for th moment to the remarkable faculty that Peggy has fee annexing retainers

wr. . ca't s:;:n e. eek.--, lot it bo remembered that sh was the tlaughter of Sam Upton, the village larl er at Perke'oy. Va., a point that is not to be " vated r. tlie tin.e-tables by thu.-e who travel on through trains. As a young girl she got h?r first taste for the stage at a church entertainment in the village, which may bring some re'dtct:on to the Methodist successor- of the p wers then ruling thereabouts. Xo Pav. i r.elasco t eok ti.is fired ambition and polisv cd ;t. She had her next course in the School of Life ar a manicure, where she acquired seme litt'..' p :h-'". v h.'.e putting it on more or less polite society. .And the next stage was the telephone

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Here is the list of the owners of the scalps that form a part of her trophie?, alori with the $700,000 worth of jewels that represent the flotsam and jetsam of the stormy marital voyage with Jame? Stanley Joyce: 1 Everett A. Archibald, who was the first man to eccuny the role of husband in the Joyce galaxy. 2 Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, of Washington, the second rich man to espouse her. 3 James Stanley Joyce, Cleveland millionaire, who inherited the lumber-made millions of his father and took her for his cwn as Husband

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4 Peter C. Merillon, son of a retired banker of Paris, who inherited the estate of his American mother, a Miss Clinch, and who is reported to be waiting for the annulment decree to become Husband Xo. 4. 5 Maurice Mouvet. who hopped into a millionaire's niche with his nimble feet, and was formerly the husband and drrcing partner of

Florence Walton. Joyce names him in his suit. 6 Henri Letellier, millionaire owner of the Paris Journal and of the principal gambling concessions of Europe including Deauville. 7 Barton French, millionaire Xew York society man, who has passed much time abroad and is known generally among the wealthy and leisure sets of

the Continent. g The Due de Dureal, famous as a Paris dandy, who has been for years a familiar figure in the gay life of the French capital, the whirl of Monte Carlo and the other bright spot3 on the touring map of those who are looking for sensation in exchange for simoleons. 9 Prince Vlora, pretender to the Albanian throne, who mirried Helen Kelly Gould after her divorce from Frank Gould, and who has been one of the figures of reccrt years in the night life of Paris. 10 Joe rani, millionaire owner of a chain of restaurants which made his fortune, which fortune lie has utilized to make life worth the living wherever the opportunity presented itself. It would be extremely interesting to list the "also rans" in this wonderful collection of men with means who have danced attendance whenever the maid from the Virginia village appeared. It is perhaps no place the number of men who

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When Peggy came to Xew York from Chicago

after the blistering gruelling that Joyce's attorney gave her in opposing her appl. cation for alimony, many detectives watched hr apartment hous day and night. But while they watched, Peggy slipped away to Atlantic City, and on the same day the register of the identical hotel at which she rested, bore the name of "Peter C. Merillon. Franee." There was no apparent coincidence in the arrivals. Nobody paid any attention to the sl'.ght younjj man of 24 who seemed to shadow the woman when she went for a walk, a ride in the hoardwalk chairs, or a plunge in the wave?. He sat by her side on the beach without exciting the slightest suspicion. Atlantic City to Deauville Photographers asked her to permit them to make snapshots and she gracefully compMed. Always the face and figure of Merillon was in the picture, but it was just as rogularly wiped out by the retouching photographers as being a mere necessary damage to the plate. One day the sleuths guarding the city hous? found that Peggy had come to town, slipped away without their knowledge and was on the Olympic, tome days at sea, before th:y found that the bird hd flown. Then they found thut Merillon was no ordinary person, and that he v.a ; to?

same steamer, occupying an adjoining suite, and that he had cabled to Paris to buy an automobile worth 210,000 francs, with orders that it meet the ship at Cherbourg. Peggy couldn't walk, and the train to the capital was notoriously bad. They motored to Deauville, the wildest summer resort in all Europe, and thence to Paris. At Deauville the report was starteel that Merillon was in training as Husband No. 4. Two things operated against the advisability of permitting this report to go unchallenged Peggy's annulment was still in the lap of the Chicago courts, and the young man had important business matters in this country. Deauville was no place for a worran playing 3 quiet game, and Peggy had the rare good sense to shake its sands, quickly. She went with MeTillon to Paris, where the Hotel du Rhin held both of them. Xo more circumspect perscn ever walked along the Place Vendome. She had affected quiet dress, taken to the sleeveless, nearly all black type that had but a touch of the decollete. True, the skirts were amazingly short, even for Paris, but then, Peggy walked as one who knew that she had nothing in that direction of which to b ashamed. Concerning P. C. Mcrillon And the Paris set, regarding them over the champagne, set the curious at rest regarding the young man. He was P. C. Merillon, whose father. 25 years, ago, married an American a Mis? Clinch. She had a substantial fortune that wa? reserved for her two sons, and rumor had it that the A. T. Stewart millions played some part in her heritage, but that connection was not established. Charles Stewart Merillon, his brother lost an arm during the war and died shortly after the Armistice. Peggy had taken the most luxurious suite on the ship on the trip across. It cost the pretty penny of $2070. plus tips, plus wine, plux extras and all of the things that go to pyramid an ocean voyage bill to whatever height the pocket-book of the individual will stand. It was located on B deck, the peculiar ship residential district reserved for those who have ready cash in large sums. A spacious drawing room, which could, cn a pinch, be commanded to serve as a dining room, two bedrooms and a bath made up th suite. Next to the parlor was the suite assigned to Merillon. Every eTort wns made to keep the identity of the occupant of the suite secret, and when it became known, in spite of the fact that the name were omitted from the ship's list, Peggy went to the purser and made a roar. It wa? the one departure from her role of modest retirement in demeanor and speech. She pounded her heel on the deck with violence when she found that ehe had been spotted, ad turned to Merillon to remark: "It's a damned "shame!" This tiny "damn" in the romance newly borr was the only ripple cn the serenity of her voyage When the ship passed the three-mile limit, wher? the thirsty may forget that Mr. Volstead ever came out of the West, and that thirsts are supposed to be quenched with water only, Pegjry was frequently at the Parisian Cafe, a deck oasis whereat the drink that knows no alcoholic bridle may be found. Just what the next chapter in the life story of this remarkable woman will be is a problem that only the future can answer. Money, jewels, clothes of the most expensive kind, the most costly forms of living and of amusement have, all come to this girl of the Virginia village who first got her urge to the life beyond the village by a peep at a church exhibition and who defies time wither or custom to stale the infinite variety o" h r conquests in the field of men and million.

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