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appearance.EHRET ASKS DIVORCEWife Was Ada Dare, the Actress, and His Marriage Lost Him a BigIncome.It was learned yesterday that the action instituted by Frank A. Ehret, son of the millionaire brewe, against his wife, whom the public knows as Ada Dare, the actress, Is for absolute divorce. Whom he names as co-respondent cannot be ascertained, nor the circumstances on which he bases his suit.In the Supreme Court yesterday Justice Fitzgerald directed that the testimony should be heard by a referee, and he appointed tothat position Vernon M. Davis, formerly anassistant district attorney. The counsel onboth sides, Dittenhoeier, Gerber James forMr. Ehret, Howe Hummel for the wife,agreed to this. The only papers filed withthe court were the lawyers’ consents and theorder of reference, and it was not statedwhether the suit was for divorce or separation.Mr. Ehret and Miss Dare were married by a police magistrate in Chicago, on August 11, 1S98. But it was not until six weeks later that the announcement was made. The young man had been attentive to the actress for many months, and it was said his father had threatened to disinherit him should he make her his wife.LOST A BIG INCOME.It was said at the time that Ehret’s marriage cost him an income of $40,000 a year— the salary' he got for his labors in his father's brewery. But still there was no fear he would starve, as be had an income of nearly $30,000 a year in his own right. When he and his wife came East they went to live in a handsome home in Elmhurst, L. I., in the heart of the theatrical colony. They were happy, to all appearances, and it is said that through the intercession of his sister, Mrs. Edward Burgbardt, Frank’s father was induced to relent.He is 33 years old and is regarded as a shrewd business man. He was president of the New York State Brewers and Maltsters' Association, belonged to many clubs and before his marriage was a leader In the fashionable German-American set Lm this city. He was a chronic first-nigbur at the theaters, and had paid court at the shrine of many stage beauties.Ada Dare was one of the most statuesque women on the stage. Her first husband was Tom Dare, a circus clown and acrobat, but she obtained a divorce from bim after a sensational trial. Then she became Mrs. Roux, only to obtain another divorce. She is several years older than Ehret and has two children, a boy and a girl, by her first husband.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Sat, Aug 25, 1900
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