MAE MURRAY’S CHEQUERED CAREER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

MAE MURRAY’S CHEQUERED CAREER

HER FOURTH SPOUSE LIKE POLA, A PRINCESS Mae Murray, the Nell Brinkley girl of Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” the “Merry Widow” of the screen, the Princess David Mdvani of Georgia, land of harem beauties, and an internationally known dancer, is now making personal appearances with pictures in American cities. Mae Murray, who was originally Mario Koenig, made her first success with Ziegfeld as the Nell Brinkley girl, when she was little more than a school girl. After that she danced in revues and vaudeville and In the hotels, and then came motion pictures in which again her dancing counted and was featured. Her career through various marriages and divorces has been almost

as picturesque as her professional life. She was first Mrs. William Schwenker, her husband being a wealthy New Yorker. He was followed by Jay O’Brien, who had been divorced by Irene Fenwick, now Mrs. Lionel Barrymore. When Mae left him he Ti'o Tnll« FMoise.h-

was married by Mrs. Julis Fleischmann, divorced wife of the Cincinnati yeast man. Then Mrs. Schwenker-O’Brien went into pictures and shortly afterwards married her director, Robert Z. Leonard, with whom she Jived for (bight years. A Paris divorce relieved her of that marital tie, and being once more free she noted her dear friend, Gloria Swanson, had annexed a title, so thought one would look well in front of her own name, and forthwith took Prince David Mdvani for her fourth spouse. Recently Mme. Pola Negri married David’s brother she became Mae’s sister-in-law once removed. Pola, by the way, was matron of honour at Mae’s last wedding and the late Rudolph Valentino was best man.