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Count Ludwig Salm von Hoog-straeten, Austrian nobleman who eloped recently with Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan: "The Chicago Tribune credited me with having made the following statement to 'an old friend' in the Ritz Hotel in Paris: 'Six months more of this and if Mr. Rogers does not come through [with some money], I am going to get a divorce...
...month ago Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten married Miss Millicent Rogers, of Manhattan, who was generally considered a likely heir to many Standard Oil millions. The Daily News, Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, made a series of grand stories out of what it termed "Count's Gold Tinted Love" (TIME, Jan. 21). It performed a feat for its kind of journal, a feat that almost challenged William Randolph Hearst to equal it. Doubtless, the News chuckled. But last week the Hearst press began to laugh last and best. It began to publish serially: "HOW I WOOED...
...have patience and a strong magnifying glass you may be able to locate him, for the arrow [several hundred yards in the background] may indicate his approximate position." Next the "other women" began to appear. Then a lady who was quoted as saying: "Everybody is saying that Count Salm picked a prize in Millicent Rogers, but if you ask me she got the world's greatest lover." Coupled with this and similar pictures were scenes from cinemas in which the ex-fiancé took part, with such captions as: "Jimmy [Thompson] appeared as a gallant knight in Yolanda-Unlike...
Married. Miss Mary Millicent Rogers, 20, to Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, about...
...lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly graceful and dignified structure. The city of San Francisco donated the site in Golden Gate Park. The building will house a permanent art collection, chiefly of French art. Rodin, before he died, selected...