Actress Mary Empress: Whose disappearance remains a mystery

He boarded the ship to cross the sea with everyone. Everyone reached their destination, but the whole ship could not be traced. He was lost, leaving an impression of mystery. In 1919, the British actress Mary Empress disappeared from the ship. Even after a hundred years, the mystery of his disappearance has not been solved. Let's find out about him at the beginning.

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Mary Empress was born in 184 in Birmingham, England. Grow up there too. From the early 1900s, he became well-known in the United Kingdom and the United States in the field of drama and theater. In 1902, at the age of 18, she married a local dentist. However, they were separated after four years.

Mary Empress made her film debut in 1915 with the comedy 'Old Dutch'. The following year, acting in a play called 'Behind Closed Door' made him well known in the acting world. That same year, she made her acting debut in a melodrama called 'The Girl Who Didn't Know'. Apart from acting, she is also known as a singer and dancer.

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After shooting at the West End Theater in London in 1919, he was returning to the United States by ship. That journey is not over. The ship did arrive in the United States, but Mary Empress did not.

October 26, 1919; The day was Monday. A ship named 'Orduna' anchored at Conrad Line Jetty in New York, USA. The ship sailed from Liverpool, England 11 days ago. On the way, Arduna anchored for some time in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Mary Empress, 35, was the most talked about passenger on a ship full of VIPs, ordinary passengers and immigrants. But when the ship arrived in New York, it was found that all the passengers were there, except Mary. Noise fell all around. Not once or twice, but three times the whole ship was searched. But no existence was found. It didn't take long for the news to spread to the outside world. In the midst of so many people, the detectives came down to solve the mystery of when and how he disappeared.

Journalists asked other passengers on board about the disappearance of the Empress, as well as the ship's crew. But no one was able to say anything as expected.

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One of the ship's stewards said in an interview with the media that he had taken dinner to the Empress's cabin the previous evening. Then go again to clean the cabin at half past six. The Empress then told him to eat a sandwich at half past nine. But he did not see the Empress in the cabin at that time. As a result, he left the sandwich and came out. He entered the cabin in the morning and saw that the food was left as it was left. The bed was also tidy.

A reporter from the International Feature Service came back from that cabin in Mary Empress. Going into the cabin called 'Stateroom 460', he saw several pictures of Mary herself above the berth, probably set aside to be given to the media when she arrived in New York. A copy of a telegraph he sent to a New York hotel was also found. It read, "Coming Monday. Please make room for me."

According to the reporter, one of the doors of the interior passageway was in the cabin. It is not at all possible for people like Empress to come out with that path which is 13 inches wide. Moreover, the door was locked from the inside. But if he did not go this way, then how did he disappear from the ship?

He has also explored various possibilities. According to him, the stewards saw Mary Empress at 6:30 but did not see her at 9:30. At this time of the evening, the passengers are everywhere, including the deck of the ship. If the Empress had jumped out of the main door and into the sea, she would have had to pass by many passengers, Stuart and officers, in which case she would not have been noticed. If such a famous actress leaves the cabin, no one will notice her, it can't happen.

When he disappeared from the ship, all the decks and bar rooms were ablaze for several hours. So it cannot be said that he took advantage of the darkness.

Let's go back to those stewards. Explaining what Mary Empress wore that day and what her outfit looked like, the stewardess said that Empress wore a completely black dress during the voyage, with a big screen and a small hat. He did not recognize the Empress at first. Thought she might be a wife who lost her husband in the war.