DIVA AND MILLIONAIRESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7395, 22 February 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)

DIVA AND MILLIONAIRESS.

A SACRIFICE OF 10,000,000 DOLLARS. Miss Sybil . Sanderson, whose engagement to Count Fitzjames, of Paris, was nounced recently, is a daughter of the late Judge Sanderson, .who was AttorneyGeneral of one of the Western States of America. She was sent to be educated in Europe, where it was accidentally discovered that she possessed a voice of rare quality. She was thereupon trained, under Sbrlglia and Mme. Marches!, with finishing touches from Gounod and Massenet, for an operatic career, in which she had from the first a meteoric success. In 1897, however, Miss Sanderson suddenly forsook the triumphs of the opera house to marry Mr Antonio Terry, a Cuban millionaire, with A VARIEGATED PAST. He was the son of Senor Tomaso Terry, who when he died in 1886 left a fortune of about fifty millions of dollars among his six surviving children. In 1876 Antonio Terry married Miss Grace Dalton Secor, the orphan niece of Mr William H. Secor, a well-known New York lawyer, and a daughter was born in 1881. The marriage was not a happy one, and much talk of divorce was ended only by the death of Mrs Terry in September, 1897. Before the end of the year the widower had married Miss Sanderson. Before the waning of the honeymoon the bride was stricken with a mysterious disease which was variously described as paralysis and as a severe form of bronchitis. Her life was despaired of, and Terry poured out money like water in the search for a cure. Almost exactly a year after the marriage Terry himself suddenly died, leaving- the handsome fortune of twenty million dollars to be divided equally betv/een his wife and Natividad Marie Mercedes Terry, his daughter by his first marriage. The will provided, however, that Miss Sanderson should lose all interest In the estate if she married again. And she was 34 years old, and a very lovely woman! The first indication of revolt against the •terms of the will came in June last, when Miss Sanderson made a reappearance at the Opera Comlque in Paris in her old j part of "Phryne." She had a brilliant success. THE TEN MILLION DOLLARS BRIDEGROOM. The man for whom she will now sacrifice ten million dollars is the Count Fitzjames. He is a member of the family of the Duke of Fitzjames.head of the French line of the descendants of the Duke of Berwick, natural son of James 11. and Lady Arabella Churchill, by that famous soldier's second marriage with Annie Bulkeley, daughter of Viscount Bulkeley. It will be remembered that the Duke of Berwick, head of the senior line, died at New York at the time of the America Cup races. • t . „. ....