Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20

other playboys who had followed the hectic
trail blazed by Phil. It was Charles Wesley
Turner uhp climaxed- sensational Wall
Street career the other day by firing bullet
into his brain lust before he was to go on trial
charged with defrauding woman of S225OO
Turner had claimed profit of $6,OOOOOO In
Wall Street. He was a co-defendant with
William P. Buckner Jr,, in the $4,000 600
Philippine Railway Company bond issue
fraud for which BuclSner sent to jail
He was acquitted of this charge.
When the stock market was surging up
ward Turner was a familiar figure in the
popular rendezvous Always the lavish host
the Wan Street punger seldom made reserva-
tions for parties of less than II or 15-and
he always picked up the check which usually
was in three figures. An over generous
Upper and a connosseur of the best wines
that commanded the highest prices, Turner
often walked out Of a bistro minus $500 or
$500 left with an exultant proprietor.
Turner was charged with forgery several
years previously by his divorced wife, Mrs.
Lyela Brandeis. who asserted she loaned him
100000 upon notes said to have been signed
by two of his sisters and that she later found
the signatures were not authentic.
Flamboyant playboy of the reckless era
when Plant was providing the spicy items
for coumnists and spectacular stories for the
news columns bulky Guy LOOMS, oil
baron whose wells poured out millions Of dol
lars of liquid gold. Like Plant, Loomis decided
TO pass up the frivolity of the new cafe
society. but in the days of blatant revelry of
Texas Guinan's club, Tonys, the Argonaut,
Napoleon's and the Hotsy Totsy, LOOMS was
the dominant host of eXtravagant parties in
most of them.
Joyous proprietors and beadwaiters greeted
him with open arms for Loomis entertain
ment was something 20 rival any visit of
Saint Nick in providing open handed gift
dealing Entertainers and chorines who
pleased him would palm gratuities ranging
from $50 to 500
Then there was the highly cultured Joe
Rosenbdum son of Chicago's wheat king,
whose parties were renowned for their ele-
gance, superb foods and vintages. Chorines
used their winsome wiles to garner invita-
tions. for Rosenbaum affair was practically
guaranteed 20 put financial bulge in
shapcly stocking -
known to the nghtery habitues as
"Cappy," Miles G. Rabinowitz, real estate
mogul, is supposed to have devoted as much
energy to the pursuit of pulchritudinous de-
lights that sparklcd on the Bistro Belt as
he did in cvading legal difficulties.
In 1850, Mrs Marie Cunningham Rabino-
WITT, in a separations suit alleged that Cappy
was a "super-playboy" and patron of host
of Broadway's most fascinating females
spending most of his 100000 yearly income
on their pleasures. According to Mrs Rabino-
WITT. who used to bc Follcs beauty herself
Cappy had the happy cor unhappy for HIM
faculty for discovering beauty almost as soon
as the Broadway impresarios did.
The record Of the playboys etched in the
history OF the Bright Lights sector is an in
tcrcsting one and certainly bears telling. The
f.n Worglipcrs Of the Terrific Twentes find
counterpart ir tho instance OF a Tommy
ManpiHe, but all in all the playboy has passed
into the limbo of the rarity-and probably i'll
all for the best