PEGGY TRIES AGAIN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 86, 6 July 1928, Page 2

PEGGY TRIES AGAIN

FIFTH MILLIONAIRE HUSBAND

ANOTHER COUNT.

LONDON, June 1

The blond'e millionaires prefer is going to marry again—for the fifth time. She i s Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who is perhaps the most famous blonde in the world. It is even said tbjat her matrimonial career inspired Anita Loos to. write "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."

It is now announced that she is to marry Count Fred'ric de Janze, whose former wife, Alice Silverthrone, shot and injured herself and Mr. Raymond de Tafford at the Gare d'u Nord boattrain, and was discharged in the Correctional Court a,s a first offender. l >e Sg.V Hopkins Joyce, a village girl, ran away from a Convent School iin the one-horse town of Farmville, ! Virginia, and at the .'age of; 16 married Everett Arch, the son of aDenver millionaire. The marriage took place at Salt Lake City. Two yearg later it was annulled in the Courts. [ Peggy thought better of married life and went back to school, but the Convent restrictions proved irksome and she agjvin eloped with another millionaire, Philbrick Hopkins. Ag a memento of this short-lived romance she has retained hi s name ever since. \

Mr. Hopkins took his bride to New York, where she hurst into society like a storm. Her beauty, her vivacity, and her two romances were the great topic of conversation of .the entire city. But domestic life was not attractive and Peggy became ?n3 most faijmous of Zeigf eld's Follies. Mr. Zeigfeld using her romantic associations to Ithe full. She came the best known 'actress on the American musical I stage, but Mr. Hopkins divorced i her. PRINCE IN A DUEL. I Another millionaire soon 'stepped forward. He wa s Stanley Joyce, who j followed her, halfway ' across America to protest his love,- and she married hini /"' __ ■ ■"•;'' . i Mr. Joyce organised a honeymoon 'tour of Europe on a regal srtalo, and ;loaded her with jewellery. She, howj ever, spent money on an equal scale, Joyce had! tq admit himself beaten. He left her in Deauville Casino and divorced her.

| Peggy became'the most sought a£r ,ter woman in France. Maurice/ the dancer, threatened to die for her, and 'an Albanian prince fought a.duel with a French newspaper magnate for infatuation, of her.

1 An American millionaire crossed the Atlantic to see her but she ordered him out of her hotel.

! Then Peggy went back to the States, to Chicago, where she met a young Swedish count, Count De Morner, who is a scion of the Royal House and made a fortune out of tooth-paste. .

HER FIRST DEFEAT

! They were married, but swiftly came sign s of a domestic upheaval. The Countess turned up in New York alone, 'and the inevitable divorce followed!. • A month or two later she was 'at Miami, where it was announced that she would marry Mr.' Stanley Comstock, but a little Broadway dancing girl stepped in. and for the first time Peggy' was displaced by a riV.al.

It was too much; She hastened to console herself by buying the largest blue diamond in the world. She paid £60,000 for it, and employed two detectives to watch the diamond wherever she went, and 1 finally said it was more worry than it was worth.

i In the meanwhile she met Count De Janze (who had divorced his wife) in a bookshop, where Peggy was reading De Janze's book on his adventures in Kenya. He was introduced to her as the author, and now the wedding bells will ring for Peggy for the fifth time.