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WOMAN OF TRAGEDY

RER LIFE AND HER

LOVERS.

Fruits fall, and love dies,

time changes;

dare not send a wreath last this, too, might be pilätaken.

It is the tragedytor kwamen, em barrassed by the unreal, love of many unable to recognise the real and love when it comes

Thou art fed by perpetual

breath.

Alive after infinite changes,

And fish from the kisses of

death.

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I have had many men threaten to take their lives, and on one occa alon one of my lovers walked up and down the corridor outsida my roam with a loaded revolver for hours He was a well-known man in thea It was a tragic, disillusione.ltrical circles and he had threatan Dolores, whose atory of bitter loves to shoot himself at my feet is so frankly told in Swinburne's That passed, and he went out of my

life. great poem, which will be recalled by many, and after which she was named:

The poem, so aptly known as "Our Lady of Pain," fittingly d scribes the Dolores who recently frankly unveiled the story of her many loves.

On another occasion two rivals for my affection were a peor and a rich bookmaker. They ant one on each side of me, attempting to outdo each other in the lavishness of their presents.

"Dolares only came into his life recently and she changed every thing. But I am sure it was bo- cause he was left penniless and found he could not finance the great exhibition of his work which he had planned that he.took his life.

He

"Ambition was hla kaynate, often said to me, I am going to be the greatest artist in this country," and he believed in himself. Mr. Maurice 'continued:-

He did oil paintings to sell, but his great ambition was to be a past have saved £150 to 2209 when he master in water-colour. He must

He told me what a met Dolores.

He wonderful woman she was. said, “You cannot appreciate her, you are not an artist.”

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A little later I wont to see him again, and Dolores and, another They poured valuable presents artist were there. They were pack- "I love him now more than I have into my lap, and In the end I re-ing up his pictures.

He was very excited and told me loved anyone," she exclaimed, rejected them bath.

Dozens of men havo told me that that Dolores was arranging an ex- ferring

Frederick to Mfr. Atkinson, the promising young they would die for me, but I mere-hibition for him. They were going to take his pictures to a famous painter, who committed suicide inly laughed at them.-

patron of art who was going to pay his studio in Maida Vale, W.

all the expenses of a joint show by stated Wha

at the inquest that he was infatuated with

Atkinson and the other artist.. her and that she deserted him when

That was how his money went.

all his money was gone.

It

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She is no longer the young and beautiful woman of paat years, but she is still an alluring flame around which the male butterflies of all ages get burned.

"Not Even Beautiful" With a wistful smile and a quaint little shrug of the shoulders Delores went on to describe her foalings as a woman with an army of admirers: It is dreadful to ba so much loved. I look at myself in the mirror every what people can day and wonder see in me. I am just an ordinary woman, but I cannot live an ordin- Iary life.

"I am a woman of tragedy. live in hell," she said." "I laugh; I smile; I am admired by thousands, but I have never known the mean- ing of happiness. While I pay the price of being a much-loved woman. the Iron of disappointment runs deep into my soul.

I do not even think I am beautiful, All my love Is foreimplicity. don't want people to love me merely to destroy me.

"

He went to a party on the night he took his life, and he must have heard something that suddenly made him think his art was not worth while.

I heard that he sat by himself a lot during the dancing and could not be induced to enter into the fun. IIt was unlike his usual self.

My story is much the same as that of all the women of history who have been very much loved. I auppase, they too, could not under- stand the strange fascination they held for men.

Atkinson painted from his earll- He often sat in front est years. of a mirror and painted portraits of

himself.

"DISILLUSIONMENT"

Painter's Last “Dirge of Madness"

Mystery of Birth "To the world my very birth is a mystery, for I am supposed to be Jewish. The truth is that my

Her Rich "Daddy" mother Was half-French, half-

Everybody items to think that I,

More of Atkinson's poignant Spanish, and my father is a Lanca- in my fine clothes, must be some- shire man, George Edwin Schofield, thing very exotic and extraordin-yorses were revealed. Just before who still lives in Ashton-under-ary, whereas, in fact, I do my own his death he wrote "Disillusion

washing, cook my own meals, make ment." which ran:

O, must I sing? Then I will sing my own clothes, and find more plea

a dirge, sure in these things than in the voluptuous entertainments that are offered me.

Lyme.

"I was born in Doughty-street; Bloomsbury, 36 years ago on March 11 next. The street was only a short distance from Epstein's studio which made me famous.

If I had been only anxious to get the wealth mon were anxious to shower upon me could go about in a luxury motor-car studded with diamonds.

"I have lived for ever under curse; a thousand hearts of men of all clasce have been broken ff my feet. I have been dored by men I could not love; I have been par- One man among my admirers nded as the beauty of an artist's

gave. me a £600 fur coat, a large idual, but all the time I have longed touring-car, a £700 solitaire dia for the simple life of the ordinarymond ring, a £25-a-week suite of

woman.

"I went on the stage as a dancer when I was 11 years old, and I have danced through most of the con- tinents.

"When in 1911 I was in opera in Brussels the ex-Kaiser made me a presentation and thanked me for my beautiful performance.

All for Art's Sake

rooms in the Haymarket, and then begged of,me to love him. He was nearly 70, and so amused me that I used to call him "Daddy."*"*

I have had fortunes, but they have all gone.

What Women Say of Her When I go out I have no delusiona as to what other, women think about me. I have heard them say, "Good "The smallest salary I have re-heavens! Is that Dolares, the colved on the stage since I can re-famous beauty? What a peculiar member has been £50 a week, and creature!"

although I have become more wide- I am a spiritualist. My father is ly known as an artist's model I have a confirmed spiritualist; Atkinson, never received any payment for too, was a spiritualist, and in this this work. I have done it all for

we had much in common. Soon I am going to get him to come back and art's sake."

make people realise that the genius which was his at lives-lives more than ever it did before.

"The story of my career ne an artist's model is of itself romance," continued Dolores, who added:

I was known over half the world

Atkinson is more to me now than he was before his death,

I

Of folly, madness, and the tragic

end of things,

Of youthful hope and ages' des-

pair,

Of sweet anticipations soured in

the churn of time, Only the solace of an idle dream

is left,

To cheat the wounded memory. He is happiest who forgets This brief daily round and then

the grave.

Give me a glass that I may drink

and so forget.

But nol This wine doth but in-

flame my brain.

The vision's clearer and myself

more Impotent;

I'll dream and thus beguile the

time;

And sensibly pass with the rest

BWAY,

With no regrets.

O, child of pain, Dolores,

Thy fatal star doth beckon on to

doom;

treasury

Smik thou not, for tears are all

thy store. And sadness is thy

evermore. Seek not thou for happiness, For in the book of time,

Stained with the tears and blood

of martyred souls,

Is set a seal;

And on it fixed thy name, Dolores.

as the beautiful dancer. Dolores, feel he is all around me wherever and one day fa the spring of 1920 II go, and that thought comforts me. was sitting in the Cafe Royal In Of all the many friends I have Regent-street, when Epstein walked had only one has come to me in my over to me and said, "Will you trouble: that Is Mona, who was myUnder the title "My Love and I," be my model?" I agreed on the spot,ald and dresser for many years. The wrote: and it was arranged that I should She is married now, but as soon as

go next morning to his studio at 28, she read in "The Daily Mail" about Guildford-street.

me she came in search of me.

Thrilling

It was a thrilling experience. There was a thick yellow fog, and when my taxicab stopped outside the studio I heard a woman's voice

"Come into the Bay:

Hight, Dolores." It was Mrs. Epstein, who afterwards became my very great friend.

We met eight years ago in Tot- tenham Court-road. I was walking on the pavement when I saw her staring at me, and I asked her, "What are you looking at me for?" She replied. "Aren't you a lovely lady! Oh, I do love you!"

That was the first sincere compli ment I have had paid to me. She alone of all my lovers' has really loved me, and has kept my admirers at bay whenever their attentions

I soon realised that Epstein was for me the greatest of sculptors.

I loved the work, and used to sleep every night at the foot of niy have become overwhelmingly un- bust he had created. Soon after-welcome,

wards I went to live at Mr.That is the story of Delores and Epstein's house and posed for him her loves. There are too many to detail them all. As a final appeal, dally,

Dolores said:

Although I have since posed for many great artists I have never been a professional model. While giving myself for art I have earned a living on the stage, by writing, as a mannequin, and by doing other work. I had money the whole studio sabared It.

Epstein loved to dress ms in beautiful clothes and lovely jewels and gave me wonderful presents. But I felt, as a real artist should, that my work should be for the love of art.

I have been as ready to accept! work for the poor, struggling art lata as for the men of renown, for many a genius bas had great dif culty la rising from his obscurity.

Dare Not Send A Wreath Mr. Atkinson has been acclaim- ed since his death as a genius. A think had he lived he would have boon & great genius, but in spite of all that has Happened I

that I feel that I inspired hẩm tối give most of the art that

HAWhat hurts ind 10-mig While I wa

My Love And I

I will go to my beloved, "And clasp her dewy hand, We will up, away together, We'll wander through the land. We'll stop at some fair city To rest and take our breath, Then up, away togtheer, .To life or glorious death.

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I would like you to tell the world that the past is dead so far as I am concerned, and my only request is Feb. that it will let the dead past bury its dead. I only want to go on doing. something that is worth while in life, where I can be real help, and hot merely the butterfly which mea have made me.

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I am a very unhappy Dolores. 1 have lived in Hell, and many-times- I have felt like putting an end to 15 It.

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