DOLORES IN TEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

DOLORES IN TEARS.

GRAVESIDE MEETING. Dolores, the artist's model made famous by Epstein, has become reconciled to the mother of Frederick Atkinson, the brilliant young Chelsea , artist, whose infatuation for her led him to commit suicide last January. There was a moving scene in the cemetery at Rawmarsh, near Rotherham, when the two women stood side by side at the artist's grave. "I misjudged her," said Mrs. Atkinson, "but I did not know in those early days of grief what I know now. She seems to me to be, above all else, a woman with a woman's depth of feeling. "There is no doubt she is very fascinating, but I am certain there is nothing of tke vampire about her." Chrysanthemums. Dolores is touring with a theatrical company, and when the show came to Yorkshire she at once visited the dead artist's mother at her home. "She caught my sympathy," said Mrs. Atkinson, "and when she asked whether she could go with us to my son's grave I agreed, but I told her that it must be done openly. We went to' the cemetery with a friend in Dolores' car." ' Dolores took with her a wreath of white chrysanthemums—a memory that these were the first flowers he painted and also the last. The bronze and white chrysanthemums found in his studio after his death were buried with' him. His Photograph. As she was laying the wreath on the grave Dolores saw there a photograph of the dead boy, and, falling on her knees, she broke into tears. Mrs. Atkinson was also weeping, and Dolores, with her arms around her, led her gently back to the car. "When w T e parted afterwards," Mrs. Atkinson added, "I waved her good-bye and she threw me kisses. I am much happier because she came to me so frankly." Dolores after the meeting said: "I am happy—very, very happy indeed. I am glad to have had the chance of telling my story to the two people who had a right to the truth," she said.