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musical show. Fields had been engaged to do a specialty act during the show's New York run. She was a pretty girl, with a striking figure, and Fields at the time was both handsome and glamorous, if the tramp costume can be discounted. Miss Hughes' father was a respectable, hard-working wholesale grocer (Fields once remarked later that for a good portion of his life he seemed to have been pursued by vegetables) and her mother, a former resident of New Orleans, was a French Creole.
Fields himself was always vague on the subject of his wedlock, feeling that it "dated" him. The former Miss Hughes, who now lives at 123^2 North Gale Drive, Beverly Hills, has never been very co-operative with the press. In the interest of breaking the will, however, she has announced through her attorney that the date of her marriage was "on or about the eighth day of April, 1900," and that the place was California. Various relatives of the families recall a few details of the match. After the ceremony, the couple accompanied the show on tour. Then, back in New York, they lived for a while with the bride's family. As seen by a member of the circle, Fields was considerate of his mother-inlaw and treated her with kindness. At meals, for example, he often tried to brisken up the gathering with little mannerisms he had developed during his professional life. Of these, Mrs. Hughes perhaps cared least for his habit of dining with a beer bottle balanced on top of his head.
As one result of the marriage, Fields became reconciled with his own family. After an absence of more than a decade, he returned to the Germantown hearth. On this visit he took his wife and her sister Kitty, who had been a well-known child actress and was still appearing in Broadway plays. Kitty Hughes is now married to a Japanese-American, George Kurimoto, and lives in Jackson Heights. At first, back home, Fields was nervous, lest his father might remember the box and take further steps with the shovel.
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