The Washington times., 1922-11-19

Il know what delights await me. 10
the man who is marrying the same
woman for the third time there is no
doubt. There is profound, blfsSfuI
certainty" Mr.. Uhl insists.
JEROME UHL, one of the worlds fore
most baritones, bids fair also to be-
come one of the worlds foremost
and unique bridegrooms, for he has gone
to Rome to be married for the third time,
not, as is customary, to a third choice,
but to the woman who has twice divorced
him.
And he says If this third marriage is
not permanent, II infelicities creep in and
they are divorced the third time, he will
set about winning Mrs. Uhl the fourth
time, and If necessary fifth and a sixth
time-until death finally divorces them.
For, he AYERS, she is absolutely the only
woman on earth for him, and he intends
to keep on marrying her from time to
time.
Promscuous bridegrooms like De Wolf
Hopper, Nat Goodwin and Willard Mack,
who have shown a peculiar and marked
affinity for the altar and the halter,
passed the third marriage mark early in
their matrimonial careers, but after
every one of their numerous divorces each
of them promptly burned his back on his
last wife and would have no more of her.
They wearied of one wife after another,
as they would weary of last years fancy
Vest, and sought the novelty and thrill of
different mate.
! Man has been called polygamous ami
nal, with an inherent instinct and yearn-
ing now and then for a change of mate,
which civilization and modern customs
and laws to an extent suppresses. 1t Is
this instinct, relic of primitive days, which
Is largely responsible for the activities of
the divorce courts. With each new ife
would come, naturally, a new thrill, a new
sensation.
But Mr.. Uhl frankly declares that his
third honeymoon with the same woman
holds for him more thrills and a deeper
10y than did his first or second honey
moon with her.
E0f course they have had their diff
ferences and disagreements. Mrs. Uhl
claimed that his work crowded her out of
his life. Furthermore, it was hard, try
ing and extremely disconcerting for her,
from her seat in the audience, to con-
template her husbands ardent love scenes
on the stage. At times they seemed too
real.
But with each separation came calm re-
Election and new and better understand
ing as one problem after another was
solved and the. obstacles to their hap
piness AMI contentment eliminated.
Mrs. Uhl is the daughter of an old and
wealthy Philadelphia family. She as
Miss Elizabeth Norris. Her family, a.
Quaker one, founded Norristown, Penn
sylvania, which took its name from the
gray-clad pioneers.
Mr.. Uhl began marrying Mrs. Uhl in
1908. They lived together for eleven
years. Then she divorced him in Reno,
saying that mentally he was cruel to her.
After three years they were remarked
in California. The second marriage lasted
for two years. Mrs. Uhl again divorced
him. This time the California courts
granted relief. And now, after another
three years period Of separation, they
are re-marrying.
Mr.. Uhl says that he Is starting out for
his third honeymoon with the same woman
with a. keen, romantic anticipations as
ever filled the heart Of one about to ex-
pcrience the happin ,ss Of a brand ew
mate.