Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
ELLEN MACKAY WE'D.
Z TO IRVING BERLIN.
Broadway Jazz Prince Mar
rieS Fifth Avenue Society
Woman.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 5.-Irving
Berlin, Broadway's prince of jazz,
once singing waiter in Niger
Mixes Chinatown saloon. and his so
Giety bride OF day, the former E.llin
Nackay, are on their honeymoon to-
dav.
They slipped away from Berlin's
apartment in the West Forties late
yesterday for some undisCloSed dcS-
tination, possibly the Adirondacks. on
saturday they will board the Levia-
than, on which a presidential suite
mas been reserved at cost Of $1,000.
They viii spend some time abroad.
They disappeared in the composer :
UNCONSTITUTIONAL with royalties from
the melodies that have made Berlin a
million2ire-after brief telephone an
nouncements to their friends that they
had been married at City Hall and a
husty note TO the brides millionaire
father. Clarence II. Macllay. presi-
dent of the Postal Telegraph Co
Decide on Telephone.
The romance and marriage of
Broadway's melodic genius, who start
ed life as IZzy Baline, Russian immi-
grant. contains all the thrills of many
Of his own sentimental songs.
'All alone. by the telephone" Mr..
Berlin once wrote in one of his many
hits. and it was by the telephone that
yesterdays sudden decision TO wed
was made. At = o'clock in the morn
ing he called Miss Mackay in the
afternoon they were married in the
Municipal Building.
Their engagement had been rumored
q dozen times and as many times de
MED. Mr.. Mackay disapproved Of the
match. Yesterday he issued this
statement: The marriage comes as
IL complete surprise to me and was
done without my knowledge and ap-
prevail
Berlin's early life was spent selling
newspap ers on the Bowery. His bride
is of Fifth avenue society Mr.. Ber-
lin is a Jew; his father was a rabbi.
His bride Is a Roman Catholic. Her
father Is one OF the most prominent
Catholic laymen.
Religious Question.
Berlin was asked about the religious
question. There is really nothing to
be said about that-now," he an
swered
The wedding party went TO the
Municipal Building by subway. one of
the few subway trips the bride had
ever taken, and deputy city clerk
performed the ceremony.
Many of Berlin's popular songs have
been woven around incidents in his
life. After the death of his first wife,
Ray Goetz, on their honeymoon In
1913, he wrote, when l Lost You
When Miss Mackay recently was sent
10 Europe by her father, Berlin
wrote IAN Alone" and:
'WhatW l do when you are far
away, and 1 am blue, what'H 1 do?"
Next he wrote Don't Wait Too
Long" and soon after that .Remem-
Der"
Berlin denied that the songs held
special significance, but Broadway
never was convinced.
Alex2nder's Ragtime Band.
His first great popular nit was Alex
ander's Ragtime Band" "Oh. How
Hate to Get Up in the Morning" was
written when he was a sergeant at
Camp Upton during the war
Today he heads his own musical pub.
fishing firm, is producer of the annual
Music Box Revues and is reputed to
have an income of $500, 900 a year.
Berlin is 81 and his bride %. Re-
Gently she attracted attention by writ
ing an article explaining why debu-
tantes prefer cabarets to exclusive
social functions, whose boredom
could not be overcome.
They met at a social function on
Long Island.
The brides mother, who married DIR.
Joseph A. Blake, after a divorce, de-
clined to comment on her daughter s
marriage. Some reports credit her
with opposition to the marriage, others
say she has been willing to let her
daughter follow the dictates Of her
heart.