BARONET AND BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 13 September 1923, Page 5

BARONET AND BEAUTY.

LADY WILTSHIRE'S STORY. J HEART BROKEN AT BALL. LONDON, September 7. Lady Maxwell-Wilieliiro, formerly Mies Lilian Birtlee, against whom Sir Gerard Maxwell-Willshire, her husband, w.granted a decree nisi for divorce on July 13. has syndicated the story of her lift? for American newspaper?. ft is written in flamboyant style, with the. heading "My Arabian Nights' Adventures as a Titled Professional Beauty" across two pages. Tiio first instalment contains a photograph of herself at trtie Broad wa} - Theatre in her debut with her husband. It ia in profile. She is also shown riding with a society {;ir!, and acting in a. motion picture. Othf.r headings are: '•Thrilling secrets of romance and intrigue in hisrii life." "Wild going on revealed. - ' "Lovely Lady Lilian Maxwell-Willshire answers amazing divorce c'hargns." "Bankrupt Baronet now the pet bridle path escort of New York Society's richest Flappers •• The story is in keeping with headings. Lady Maxwell-Willshire descri'bnd an oriental lhall at Melbourne, and also her experience in Sydney as a aingin" star, "the greatest spectacle over known thore." She was feverishly engaged niennwi.il? in striving to work out a fourcornered love triangle. "I married him," she writes, « and two weeks later he broke my heart I remoiwbd- the date o; the fracture ' It «-as in the Town Hall, Melbourne at the height of an elaborate Ara.bian 'ball in honour of our producer. "Omriy came roaring a.croae tbe h ti room like a mad Ibull, trying to dr struck at me.' Married in Melbourne in 191-2 ww they were both members of Mr (V. Asche-6 company, Sir Gerard and T i ground oi mieeonduct wi-h W;fi- the Seorge Higg*. Then fo,Wod Z*™ band's successful petition. He «