I discovered a link to some news articles and "The Queen of the Artists Studios" is a series of articles from 1921 written by Audrey Munson (perhaps with a ghost writer) At the time Hollywood was making a film about her life called "The Audrey Munston Story" which became titled "The Soul Within."
ANDREA GEYER ; Link to Images re Audrey Munson News Articles
She ended up more that disappointed and fighting for money owed her.
Page 249: "The "Perfect Model" now sought "The Perfect Man." Audrey had been badly battered by the double blow of Oelriches's rejection and the Wilkins murder-suicide. Her movie career was over and she had been reduced to selling kitchen utensils door-to-door with Kittie. Her manager had robbed her and she was still living with her mother at the age of thirty. It was time to find a husband."
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The press loved the story and soon enough it became a national obsession to find this woman a husband. Some reported that she was looking for a man who resembled a Greek or Roman statue. It was a time in which Eugenics, the study of how to cause humans to reproduce in order to increase what were considered perfect characteristics of health and beauty, was popular. Since she embodied the perfect woman, she needed a perfect man. Letters from all over became to arrive, men proposing themselves to her. Now the often rejected Audrey was like a kid in a candy store, finding reasons to reject potential suitors.
She wrote that the Gypsy Queen had told her she would reject six and marry the seventh. Actually she rejected the seventh - if we think of all these potential suitors as one effort and with the suggestion that she was rejected by the perfect man.
In April of 1922, she declared that a man named Joseph H. Stevenson was the one she wanted. It did not work out, though there is a mystery to this. Stevenson may have gotten engaged or married to someone else. His name is common enough to not assume. Audrey, overwrought by yet another tragedy, attempted to poison herself - suicide.
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