Variety (Mar 1928)

46 VARIETY W O M E N' S PAGE Wednesday, March 28, 1928 , Although, not so classified in th*» guide books, Jean ponaldsoh is one of the sights of Europe. In case- that name means nothing, let it be added that Jean was a daughter of a vice-president of V the Brie rail- road. At ie she eloped With Stan^: ley. Kerwan, aged 19.' They parted six weeks, later. After the birth of. a son, Donald Kerwan, thi^ marriage was annulled. • • . ■■ Her second husband was Capt. "Winfield SiftOn, son of Sir Clifford Sifton; fotrrier .attorriey general and minister of education in the Ca- nadian cabinet, : Her third husband was Ca.pt. John Victor Nash, of the British army. It was ios Mrs. Nash, that this American woman became known as ♦"the best-dressed wonrian in Eu- rope.". Her fourth husband was Prince Sabet Bey; of Cairo, re- ported to be a mllliohaire but within a few weeks of the wedding ar- rested in Paris for unpaid bills of enormous amoAints. She left him. iat once and secured a divorce. That was in li325 and a year latfer she chose her fifth husband, Paul Duboneht, son of one of France's richest men., the manufacturer of cbrdiall. Nowadays this much-married, much - divorced, much. - Jewelleid Anfierican woman is an object of general interest in Paris and the Riviera,. She once received an offer from, the Selwyns to act on Broad- way. . Paul Dubohnet was previously di- vorced by Christiane Coty, daugh- ter of Francois Coty, the famous perfumer anid owner of the pub- lication,' "Lfe Figaro," Mrs. Ccty Dubonnet was latei* so constantly seen with Harry Hays Morgan, Jr., that it was reported they, would marry, He is ihie son of Mr. arid -*:Mrs, Harry Hays .Morgain; of New York,, and brother of Lady Fur- ness, Mrs.: Reginald Variderbllt and Mrs; Benjamin Thaw. Jr.. He was divorced by Iv.6r O'Connor, - former- ly Mrs. Trezvant, whose father, the . late James O'Connor, was for 20 years president'of . the City National . Banlt. .of Dallas, and whose mother . Is now. ivira.. Francis E. Drake, of • ■ Paris... ■ Coyle, was once known on tlie stage as Betty Lee. Mr. Kendall, a man of wealth, sold his Bar Harbor , es- tate, to Frederick yanderbilt, who then sold It to At\yater Kent, the radio mag Pauline Garon Happier Pursuing the even tenor of; her way,' young and pretty Pauline Garori, ■ seems .much happier . sinpie she. has separated from her hus- band. Lowell Sherman, than while she was recently living with him. Tills charming ai.ctres3 ;was on the stage before entering pictures, and remembered for her work in Lilies of the Field," in which Marie Doro starred on Broadway. Sherman, previously divorced by Evelyn Booth; has paid marked at- tentions to a number of actresses, perhaps fascinating them with the fOrieign airs and . graces he affects in his theatrical "characterizations/ A wave of the hand, a bow from the waist, the adjusting of a monocle, part of his stock In trade. In recent appearances having been rather bverdohe. . His metropolitan debut was. in The Girl of the Golden. West," in 1905, when .cast "Rider-, of the Pony Express." He was a guest at the mUch exploited party at which a young woman was ta,ken 111, sub- sequiehtly dying, the hapless Fatty" Arbuckle . being, made the scapegoat. Leaving California .Sherman found a refuge with Mr. and Mrs. ■William Courtenay (Virginia Harn- ed), at their , country home, near Rye, N. T. ' Originally . billed as- Lowell J. Sherman, he was the son of old John Sherman, who airranged cer- tain stage: effects for David Belasco. and was art Interesting type, if a rough diamond. One of the most indiscreet things Lowell ever did was when,, objecting to a comment published by Alexander Woollcott In a Njew .York .paper,, he .delivered. a series of speeches during his cur- rent engagement, neither entertain- Tracing Jean St. Cyr Interesting is the report that Jean St.. Cyr h.£is rented a house In Lon- don, and will occupy It early In the spring. Meanwhile, he divides his time between a suite at the RItz In New York arid a magnificent estate In San Mateo, Calif. ' ""TheTCe'fisStlOTrar "revelation^"" iir "The World'* some years ago were never denied, many .columns In sev eral . Issues declaring St. Cyr was Jack Thompson, of Waco; Texas, former bellboy, chorusboy and hat salesman at Wanamaker's In New York. It was also avowed that Jack had lived In a theatrical rooming house, along .with one Oscar St Cyr, a professional bicycle rider, whose name he later assumed Kveritually he married a rich old ^widow, Mrs. Alexander Redfleld, of ■ Hartford, and inherited a fortune. While still In deep mourning, he went to Palm Beach, and encoun tered William Rhlnelander Stewart Jr., the society man. Stewart In troduced St. Cyr to his mother, who after having; divorced Stewart, Sr became the wife arid widow of James fteriry -"Silent" Smith, In heriting:many millions from him^ Within a few weeks of the meet Ing, Mrs, Smith became Mrs, St Cyr; After a few years, she died and left great wealth to her.hus band, manjr . years her junior,: al though she. also remembered her son and her daughter. Princess Migiael de Bra^nza. After that. It was .authoritatively reported St . Cyr was In high favor with another rich old widow, Mme. Da Gama Her first, husband was Arthur Volk her second Arthur I-Iearn, of the New York dry goods firm, and her third Brazilian ambassador to Great Britain. St. Cyr's most Intimate triend is Yon S.chwemm, son of a telegraph, operator of Trenton. Some of . the "Silent" Sml.th mil lions went to previously poor rola tlons from the middle wcat, Mr. and Mrs.. G<jorge Grant Mason. The Ma sons now live magnificently In New ^Y0rk-^and^Tuxedp~^Park7^=^hel daughter married Samuel Sloan Colt, arid their son, George Jr., mar lied last summer a beautiful and talented girl. Jane iE<endall, the; Kilever illustrator. She was adopted by her stepfather, Lyman B. Ken- dall, of Washington, but her father was Proctor Welsh, manager of the Hotel Onandaga, Syracuse. Mrs. Kendall, who was Elizabeth Peggy Joyce's Gems Peggy Joyce's, name was juggled something terrible last week by the tabloids in New YVrk, To finish It off they told that Peggy would sail abroad on the "Leviathan" Saturday, March 24, to niarry a ;tltle. English, Friench, Spanish or Russian not riientloried. The big point of all of the Joyce storieia appeared to be that Peggy had been givcn .a rope of pearls or Juat 'a plain diamond pr garriet or carrot costing around $300,000 "by a famous publisher." As thouffh to nJake th* I Jentiflcatlon closer, the stories said the gem had not. yet. been I>ald for. Yet another story Is that Peggy knows a new coin for-, eigner. . Another of the stories was that Peggy had to go away to side step a muss, in order to iiang on to the jewel. Some thought it a publicity stunt on Peggy'* part to give the. foreigners an Idea of her minimum in presents at pres- erit. From accounts the jewelry fell right in Peggy's lap when she needed it, as Peg, from the story, about hocked everything slie owned to get her last pic- ture finished. While it may not be her last, it is the last she . has made. Its producer is said to have told the Joyce girl to . come across If ishe wanted to have it shown oh the silver sheet, t It's safe to aay that Peggy has blown for a littlis while . a.nyhow, and. the cbiselers In her set must now look up a.n- other model to follow. Remarks at Random By Nellie Revell .1 thiak it is disgusting the way young people neck each other nowadays, I think it's horrible how they hug one another on the dance floor, scarcely moving from one spo't to another. I think it's perfectly obnoxious the way they take a nip out of each other's hip flasks and eat up eich Other's cigarets. I think the easy, familiar attitude they adopt among themselves ia Scarcely sanctiipried by the usages of polite society. * I think it's devastating, the free and Irrespbrislble Independence they- maintain In the face of opinions pf "others... . I think the chance they i-Un of going to the dogs are breath-taking. But ■. . Gosh darn 'em, they're having; a lot more, fun than I ever had when :f was y6"ung. • ' Arid now that we have "Ten Nights Iri a. Barroom,?* and "Uncle Tom'a Cabin" again we may expect ?'East Lynn" or "The Black Crook" soon. One of the Rev. Arthur Wakefield Slaton's recent sermons called upon the native-born American to stop calling foreigners insulting names such as "wop," "dago," "sheeney" and "^easer" It would ieven be a good Idea for the native-born Americans to stop calllrig each other insulting names. '■ I wonderr— Why hairdressers and milliners Insist upon calling their custonlers "dearie?" ' . ! Where all the mink coats come from and where their wearers get th* money to buy them 7- How all of the husband-hunters .and match-making-mothers «yer l«t a great catch like Frank Gei'aty escape? Why waiters always take away the menU between, each cOurseT. Why, each time I pass that shooting gallery on 6th avenue, the electrlo piano Is playing "Home, Sweet Home?" I wonder why It Is that the chorus and people back stage always know when'the show ia going to move of close before the front of the houM knows? Send In ybui" favorite "wonder why," FIFTH AVE. (i^oritlnued from page 3») vaudegocrs to believe they are see- ing the best In celluloid rather than to show them every so- often a pic- ture that ruins their illusion. But Why try. to tell that to a chain that ing the audiences with his diatribes | believed. Ita "Mldseason Carrilval nor mblllfying Mr. Woollcott and Week", increased Its gross and for- cerUln other critics. \sot at thj same time^they were playing "The Kid" that week. Norma Shearer in Naples I TUT- --^ iut\.^ T.,.t..«. rm,oiv,i.w„ really odd, that Jack Goldle, . a Mr. and Mrs. Irying Thalberg blackface single; should be its hit. spent a week at Naples, at the Ex- Q^g Gbldle out that held up the celslor Hotel, considered by many [house, to be followed by another one of the best'hotels in Europe. As Norma Shearer. Mrs. Thalberg Is" known to innumerable movie fans In Italy. Her. presence In Naples was soon a matter of general Inter- .est,._. Crowds, .collected In. front _ of. the hotel to await her coming and; Goldle on the stage to hold up the show. If thiat Were Mairk's Idea, not bad! Goldle is. a Very good single; too good In these, days to be hiding .un- der cork. He should wash up and go for the m. «.-thing-In-the m. p. houses. It may be said that, though going and a;t least one enterjprlslrig happening but once every 10 years, stationer conspicuously displayed here Is a. single who should talk various photo-postcards of this more and sing less. Not because he charming actress In his windows! Lure of Hollywood Gets 2 St. Louis Giris in Wrong Sti Louis. March 27. Another stern and urgent Warn- ing to the young women of St. 1k)uIs and vicinity to be on . the lookout for fake agents of Imaginary pic- ture studios' In Hollywood was Is- sued by Chief of Police Gerk after the arrest here of two young men. Three days before, their arrest as automobile bandits, they had mar- ried two respectable St. Louis girls on. the promise _that they .were go- ing to take their brides "to Holly- has not a good voice,, as he is a corking: singer of the pop stuff, but he talks just as well, with a couple of good comedy stunts. One is his fur coat, that he starts tp; put .on. if the audience chlHs his g'ags. That's a cincher for another laugh. But Mr. Goldle can well take a gamble to blow the blackface racket for a while and go after the bigger thing and better money of the pic- ture houses. He Was sure-fire at the 5th Avenue, and with Mr. Proc tor again Watching the show. Another turn here that could be twisted into a picture house act Is The Haipplness Girls." The title sounds commercial. If there's no side coin attached, B. K. Nadel Is foolish to use It. This act of nine girls also- -looks aa 'though E." Kr hasn't given the act sufllcient con- sideration . or thought. There is Have You Heard That Walter K. .Hill Is doling publlclty-for-the A c t o rs' Fun d s er left.i>f-ben«>- flt matinees, sporisored by the Actors' Equity Association, starting With "The Shannons of Broadway", at the Martin Beck, and "Porgy" at the Republic, Friday' of this week? D. A. Doran has been appointed scenario editor , of Pathe^ thus r«> placing Charles Behan 7 The Cheister Morris household will be Increa,scd In June? A 1,600-seating capacity theatre Is under construction in Ten Eyc!^ N. J., where vaudeville and picture will be shown? Edward E. PIdgeon has gone to Wilmington where Lew Fields opemr "P'resent Arrris".. for o"ne performance preceding the Philadelphia en- gagement? -Sophie Tucker sails for London; April 21, to open at the Kit Kat ClubT S. L. Conner has gone to -Pittsburgh as business manager and presi agent for "Wings" wiilch soon opens a rii.n at the Nixon? Rose Leroy is out of the. American hospital in Chicago, sans appendix? Sam A. Scrlbner will return this week from his winter vacation at Palm Beach, traveling by the PInehurst golf llriks? Mrs. Joe Whitehead, who was smashed up in Chicago while trying ta separate an angry automobile and a plate gIa.sB window, is recbverlngft Likewise John L. Weber? • Murray .Pennock has. gone In advance of "The Mexican . Band?" v Anne Sutherland, the actress, has opened a coffee and ham and egg* emporium down in^the Village, a la Coffee Dan's on the coast? Willard Holcdmb has a new Job press-agenting for "The Aliationlaca," now in rehearsal? Cilftori Webb will sail In June for Paris to open at the Ambassador in a revue by Paul Porter? His mother will accompany him? " Leon PYeedman has resigned from the United Artists theatre in-Detroit- and Is going In advance of "Rip Rita?" Ada Mae will sail June 10 for a summer's vacation abroad? The car. of Miller and Murphy was stolen in Chicago? Alta May Coleriian, than whom there Is no better press agent, la Itt Philadelphia showing.the Quakers "The Road to :Rome7" , Billy Purl is headed for'a tour around the world? Laura Bennett has recovered from a long illness and is "raring" ttf work? ... John Hopkins of K-A booking, office Is In the French hospital? Olive May, the actress, not the dancer, will be seen in "Babes in tM Wood" which Is being produced by Charles Wagfner? Paul Whlteman has purposely lost 60 pounds (avolrdupots, not money) f Harold Lloyd says he will be In. attendance at the benefit for th« Emergency Relief Fund, T. P. R O. A., Friday night, April <? wood for picture careers The parents of the girls, sisters, I good talent in it, including a six- one .19, the other 16, have taken 1 piece good-looking girl band. '■ Its steps to have the double: marriage annulled. The bridegrooms may soon, be on their way to the .state penitentiary at Jefferson City, "rhe sisters are Violet and Llilla,n Ho3- kynson arid thp men are Jaines Maher, 19, policeman's son, and Jo- seph Winder, 21, auto trimmer. After the. arrest -of the youths and the discovery that they Were con- layout is. excellent, but not carried out. Opening aa a school scene In "one," the act later goes to. full stage, for the band business. . In "one" it's padded. Enough good stuff there, but the value is not brought oiit, and that again Jn the second part, so In toto the turn lOses In weight, not because of its people, but through the producer. In the second part the band fcssed robbers, the mother of the should go right into the hot stuff brides said "The girls were dazzled by the proriilaes of careers In Hollywood, made by the two young men. The boys secriied to have plenty oif riioney arid spoke of driving to Call- and keep In it. An overture at the full stage opening-was enough to almost kill its chances. A little attention and this la, a flrst-^class I girl act for either pictures or vaude, with the "one" portion possibly be- ing blended in for the picture pres fornia so the girls could 'break into entation. Or for the 8nia:ilcr picture the riiovles.' They had known the riousea this act could come pretty girls only 10 days; We did all wo ^he entire stage per- could-to=prevent^the-double-mar^-—^^"1^ rlage but they eloped." Hull closed, ganlze. Players, l»ynchburg, The compa,ny Will reor- Benny Rubin, Edith Flynn, and The Ingenues have riiade Vitaphone productions. All three are playing on west coast In picture houses. In the talent is Rose Kcssncr as the school teacher, and Rose Won't mind the folks back Va., I home knowing she is kicking bet- ter and higher than any of the younger people In the turn and do- ing nicely in other ways,. for Miss 1 Kessner always waa the performer. And Boss looks ao well 6he must be drawing John notea backstage. Rose Brill is another out-in- Ifirontor Who can do something and J. Frank Davis tells this one: A young riian, who had had aa ex-* pensive evening and who was driving an expensive car, ran out of ga« when he was but a few blocks from home. The bankroll consisted of three dlriies. He and the car rolled up In front of a fllllng statloiit Npnchlantly he.said to the man in charge: "On; gallon, George." "One^^llon!'' the^^attendaflt^Misr wean her?" "Trotty" says, "If you don't like the way this world moves—giet 0* to the moon; It goes the other way." does, while there's a cute little red- headed girl that's no slouch for work. Their three-bit of female accoriiplishers, Iri costuriie, quite good. While In the band is a bru- net girl, pretty, plenty of riiagnet- Ism, arid with the strings she should be made to stand out Im- portantly under the spot. Frances Shelley got iri to 'IRain or Shine" with her mandolin, and this young miss of the act does not look unlike her. The difference Is that Miss Shelley sings. If the brunet can vocalize, no matter how, she should be permitted to. Don't muff this turn, E. K. There's plenty of middle-western time ready for it. Uost of. the bill so-so. Dayton, enough. The Grosses opened . the show, and a two-boy act was second. If the 5th Avenue knew its busi- ness, It would hold the "Happiness Girls." In for a ruri and make a stage unit of their bills, before those girls, with the girl act taking up the tlnie of two turns, trying It for a couple of weeks anyway. But the 5th Avenue and other K-A houses iiave long since proven they don't know their- business or then» wouldn't be so riiuch picture hoU8« business now to beat them down. But KtA-O is going to the unit thing sooner or later, so why delay? MARRIAGES Guy Voyer and Norma Pallett will wed In about two weeks. .Both are In the same vaudeville act. Honeymoon will be spent In Ber- muda. Anna Buza, sister of Sophie Tucker, will be married Saturday, March 31, at Challfs, 163 West 57th street, to Julius Aronson. The groom Is a business man of Auburn, N.—Y.-,-- where-the -Aronson3" will -live. Harry Fagln, 24, to Muriel Kerr, 21, in Darien, Conn,, March 17. Both with New York Symphony orchestra. George Lewis, film actor, to Mary Lou Lehman (rion-professlonal) in Hollywood, Cal., March 23. Ivy Harris, actress (Paramount), Is recovering from an- operation at the Hollywood Hospital, Los Arigeles,