Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-22

to see them fly into the air.
BY the time April FOOLS Day came around,
he was always extra active April FOOLS Day
to Tnney was like Christmas to most people
He planned for it months in advance. This
time he dislocated Miss Sonderson's schedule
by arranging to have her portrait painted by
a famous artist who wasn't there, sent Grace
Moore, who was also in the show. insulting
telegram allegedly signed by the mother of
her fiance (Which almost resulted in the
breaking of the engagement, and phoned the
theatre manager that he would be unable to
attend that nights performance. He did
attend II, of course. after second-string
comedian had spent all day learning his lines
But he had reserved his best shenangan
for the last There was a scene in the show
called The Hat Number in which a dozen
girls stuck their heads through holes in
velvet curtain and rested their chns on high
pedestas in such a way to look like so
many wax heads in the window of millinery
store. All the audience saw was a dozen
pretty heads on a dozen stands, each head
with different hat painted above it on the
curtain.
But an entirely different spectacle was
presented from the rear Mr.. Tinney, for
example saw a dozen little show-girls bend
ing over in the most inviting positions 1t was
a real opportunity He knew that no matter
what happened back-s.age those little heads,
nodding through the curtain, would have to
preserve their charming smiles and keep sing
ing their little song And it only took Mr..
Tnney about ten seconds to find barrel
stave and begin padding down the line.
Out front the heads kept bobbing in time
to the music but the bobbing behind was way
off the beat Great was the laughter of
Mr.. Tinney when the curtain finally fell and
the girls turned on him like dozen furies.
All in all. it was perfect April first-for
Frank Tinney.
It must not be thought that Mrs Tinneys
life was a happy one because she happened
to get the car that Bubbles didn't get For
long hard years. she was her husbands private
audience and trial-horse. When he would
come in late he would always wake her up
to tell her about his latest gags or the seamy
details of the party he had just come from.
One night when she chung to sleep in a way
that seemed to him offensive he bounced
large onyx doorstep on her feet.
She stood for that but when the unfavor-
able publicity connected with his manhandling
of Bubbles had driven him to London she
refused TO starve to death quietly in their
$4,000 Long Island mansion. Tinney re-
sponded to her pleas for funds with notes
reading, Enclosed please find check for ST.
600" only he always forgot to enclose IT, So
she had no choice, she decided but to divorce
him. taking the custody of their son. II was
at the divorce trial that Tinney asked for
drink When a lawyer handed him glass of
water. he looked disgusted and said: I'm
thirsty, not dirty
AS Tinney sank Bubbles went up The
last trick he played on her was when she was
beginning her career as a movie star in Ger
many Hearing that she was engaged to
sausage manufacturer, he ran over from Lon
don and presented herewith an engagement
present supposedly pearl necklace. But
when she unwrapped it. she found inside
string of sausages. -
Their paths separated after that Under
the name OF Mary Nolan she enjoyed brief
splurge as a Hollywood glamour girl and then
she too began to have hard luck which has
persisted ever since.