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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
Lois Andrews Jessel, the Min
strel Mans Young Bride. Who
Appeared on the Scene When
Georges Harmony With Norma
Talmadge Went Sour.


prompted quick divorce.
Jolson took his third matrimonial crack-up
hard. Disconsolate he tried innumerable
times for reconciliations. But in October
1889, Ruby, whom he was reputed to have
settled 81 600, 900 before their marriage sued
for dvorce-charging cruelty.
Testifyng in court, Ruby said Jolson had
developed irritating habit of constantly inn
pressing her that she was stupid" criticized
her friends and refused to take her on his trips
out of town. The sentimental minstrel man
did not contest the action 1t has been gen.
orally reported that he agreed to pay her
$500 weekly until such a time as she re-
marries and then to settle a lump sum of
$4,000.
The minstrel mans name has been roman
tically linked in the past few months with
that of Adele Jergens. 19-year-old chlorine in
his Broadway success of last season, Hold On
To Your Hats"
But have no intention of getting lachry-
NOSE over the romantic travails of our leading
dispensers of song and patter. Against the
background of wooing woes stand such gilt
tering monuments of welded bliss as exempli-
fled by the Canters and the Fields.
The show world long has been depicted as
the stamping grounds for shattered romances,
but for every broken heart there are hundreds
of really happy ones.
Every radio listener knows Of the domestic
happiness that has been the keynote of Eddie
Cantor's success. 1t has been heard dozens
of times from the mouth of the buging-eyed
comic himself in joke and song. Cantor's ia
nous Ida has become an integral part of his
professional well domestic life
Shrewd Snowman, glib humorist and bub-
bling purveyor Of mistrelsy Cantor has tested
his way into the hearts of millions, and
good part of the reverence with which he is
held can undoubtedly be attributed TO the fact
that he is a one-man chamber of commerce
for successful matrimony and parenthood Ida
was right by his side to share the heartaches
and disappointments when Eddie was punching
his way to the Big Time She now shares
the sweet cup of trimming happiness
Another partnership that has remained
steadfast through careers of fluctuating in
tensity is the Benny Fields Blossom Seeley
idyll For time, Benny's public had forgotten
him. But offering the wifely inspiration that
helped catapult him back into the limelight in
a sensational comeback was Blossom.
Time is still the great healer and the an
cient gentleman with the long gray beard
works his balm with the capable aid o. a
young chap who has achieved considerable
notoriety under the sobriquet Of Don Cupid.
Sometimes the "off with the old love-on
with the new" philosophy does the trick. 1t
generally does where the protagonists Of a
-rs',e believe world propel their emotions into
fantasy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
IL Was a Real
Surprise When
Ruby Keller
Detached
Herself From
Al Jolson,
Making the
Blackface
Stars Score,
3 Marriages,
8 Errors,

II Jessel was considered notable specimen
of torch flarer" by scribes Of punctured ro-
mances, then Joson, by all means, should ept-
omiZe the bonfire. For the veteran enter
tainer made no secret of his anguish over his
parting from his young wife, whom he wed
in September 1928, when she was 10 and he
was 50, at the apex of popularity that rated
him second to none in the singular ability to
unloosen tear-ducts.
The master minstres first wife was Hen
rietta Keller. sea captains daughter =. Soon
after their marriage in 1906 they separated al
though they weren't divorced until 1919.
Joson re-embarked upon the high seas of
matrimony in 1922, when he and Ethel Delmar.
a 22-year-old dancer decided that a cottage
set in nower-bedecked environment an
open fireplace, plush-lined rugs and a spacious
kitchen were the ingredients of Will domestic
glory were concocted.
After several years 1929 thsy Npreed
that such factors as temperamenta compats-
bility were essential toward a well-roundeu
domestic routine In 1925 this decision
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
MARRIAGES ERRORS

George tTlte
Next to Al JoIson's classic romance with
Ruby Keller, possibly no other marriage among
the famed minstrel men has aroused such SEN
timental appreciation from the public as the
celebrated Richman-Forbes merger, which
lasted three years
When Richman won the alluring Hazel the
former Follies girl in 1888, he was popular
aviation hero as well as a romantic figure
whose name had been linked with such
glamourous names as the late Barbara La
MARI. Ann Pennington. Lily Damita, Clara
Bow and Sally O'Neill, in the years following
his divorce in 1925 from Malvina Yvonne
showgirl
Harry spanned the Atlantic in plane with
Dick Merrill at the controls. which resulted in
that now famous landing in Ireland. On their
return trip to America, the debonair bard and
Merrill narrowly escaped death in a sensa-
tiona landing in Newfoundland, which inspired
a deluge of printers ink TO flow internationally.
All in all. Harry was quite a catch and inn
questionable girls all over the country breathed
sighs of envy when they read that Richman
had married the toothpaste heiress.
II Harry is hiding a broken heart over his
latest marital rift then he sheltered 1t mag
nifcenty in his recent press interview.
We've decided on a trial separation" he
said matter-of-factly IT'S better than calling
the whole thing off"
The entertainer offered an interesting in
sight into the Observation-Disclosures. II was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
com pany.
The legal sew

eran zee ca m G
through FIVE years
later after Kathryn
Ray. chlorine, sued Price
for 100000 alleging he
had bopped her on the
noggin and there by
caused her undue con-
sternation, embarrass-
ment and a period of
lethargy. The suit died
a-borning.
No chronicle of trou-
bled troubadours would
be complete without tell
ing of thrice-wed AL Jol-
son, who pyramided nos
"a & C sentiments of
Southern parental bless
ings. blackface and
Bonded knee into a
fortune of 100000.
"Jolie's" halcyon affairs
d'amour with Ruby Keel
er, pert tap dancer and
spouse number 3, his
courtship and eventual
breakup denouement
will rank as one of the
eventful romances OF
show business.
1t is difficult to pic
ture the effervescent So
year old Jolson as a
wistful figure off stage;
but the sweet nanny
singer certainly was
when he finally realized
a reconciliation with his
adored Ruby was alto
gether hopeless.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
BY LOUIS SOBOL.
Famous Broadway C0lumnist.

IN the midst Of war news and international
/ crisis Harry Richman famed bard Of the
y hstros and his honey-haired wife Hazel
Forbes recently dropped matrimonial bomb
she'll Youthful looking Richman only five
years away from the half-century mark. des-
pite his dynamic and sweet song delivery and
streamlined physique and his bride OF three
years a luscious blonde who inherited the
dentifrice millions brought their ideal mar
r1aVrn- crashing crescendo by announcing
a trial separation"
Despite a paucty OF space that crowded
out yarns on the episodes abroad, hard-boie
editors through the length and breadth Of the
land emblazoned the story of domestic travail
TO the farthest Broadway of America.
The shocked response to this proclamation
was more superficial than real. for ii has be-
come almost automatic to consider the modern
troubadour as a chap who delivers his gay
roundelays not only with a tear in his voice
but with a similar emotion twanging away at
his heartstrngs.
The front pages OF our favorite journals
outdo themselves TO bring 10 the fore news Of
the blasted romances Of those favortes who
IN a great measure have created the trad-
ton Of the American minstrel.
In fact, few of the torch carriers have
received as much publicity as the Paglaccis
Of JAZZ tempo chanting their leids Of unre-
Quilted love
The objective student OF mazda matrimony
discovers that the careers Of such luminares
as the Richmans Prices Jolsons, Jessels ct al.
are studded with a series Of romantic and
marital detours II the case histories point 10
the fact that they are unlucky IN love. there
always are such glazing exceptions as Eddie
Cantor and his beloved Ida, romance that
has endured from the days of whistle stops and
cingy hotels through the dizzy heights of Big
Time success
No finer example of a happy marriage eX-
lists than that Of Benny Fields and his con-
slant Blossom Seeey.
But let's take a look at the modern trouba-
dours' marital box score:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

Like Richman and Jessel, George Price
ranked high as song and patter man for
many years, but after scoring successes on the
stage, screen and radio he decided he was more
interested in stock market quotations than box
office crosses and traded in show business for
Wall Street and his own brokerage office This
abrupt change in enterprise didn't save him
from the pitfalls in the path of broken bliss
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

trod by his contemporaries in show business.
Prices second marriage went on the rocks
two years ago. Attractive red-headed Larain
Manners and he decided upon parting of the
ways after seven years of apparent marital
happiness in which they had two children
In 1921 George and Bernice Page. vowed
TO love, honor and obey. BY 1927, this union
developed a fissure and both decided that their
chances for happiness were not in each others
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

by American weekly Rights
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

Talmadge.
Like sudden thunderbolt was Jesser
sombre announcement in June, 1929, tina
his ideal five-year marriage to Norma
Talmadge star Of silent pictures and for
mer wife Of Joe Schenck, film magnate
was completely at an end
There hasn't been anything but m,
work 20 come between as" he declared
evidencing that he had an ardent desire L
win Norma back.
For period JeSsel carried his torch
so publicly that friends feared no one coulC
ever heal the fragments of his heart II
the ebb and flow OF time the blasted idyl
faded and reappeared before the public, bu
only in reference fashion
Jessel a sprghtly AZ, was reported
regularly in the gossip columns as making
the rounds with a gorgeous 16-year-olC
showgirl Lois Andrews, whose previou!
claim TO recognition was based on
circumstances during which she had
whole-heartedly delivered a hefty
slap TO the jowl Of the diminutive
George White. the producer, with
whom she was Economically paired
Just getting Norma jealous"
was the opinion Of those sentimental
souls who shuddered at the thought
Of George being calloused enough
20 step out Of the role Of heart
broken swain
But Jessel apparently had a good
head as well as a good heart. He
married the girl and began CAPT. 4
talizing on it, Realizing that he'd
be kdded numerically about his
child-bride one really ever has !
computed exactly how many thou
sands of gags found their way into e
print-Jessel himself, set the pace
for gag writer's. &
Results An avalanche Of lucra-
tive contracts for personal appear
snces with his bride
Georges first altar trial was
blazed with Florence Courtenay,
romance that four years later cul-
minated in divorce.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Review of Recordings

disc Of the album and is played
also by Mr.. Szigeti with good firm
bowing. He lends due Importance
to passing notes and ornaments
them with infinitesimal shadings.
Corelli's junior by 81 years. the
great Georg Friedrich Handel, the
formers contemporary and admirer
shows the benefit derived from his
predecessors innovation in behalf
of the concerto form. HandelS two
concerti grosSi-'No. l in G Major,
Op. g." and NO. in d Major, Op.
g." excellently performed i'll every
detail by Herman Diener and his
Collegium MuSicum, are noble and
rich in sound and nuance. A harp
Sichord assists the orchestra in the
performance of both and adds So
nority and volume. The concerto in
"G Major" is written on a broader
scale that the one in ID" Number
ing six sections, it favorS the first
violin almost throughout. Its lively
fugue is one of the jolliest and most
engaging bits Of music. These con-
certi should be included more often
on concert programs for the amount
of enjoyment they give. The re-
cording, made by Victor in Europe,
is unusually good.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Guide to Art in Washington

National Gallery Art Constitution
NWAiasepieces OF painting and sculpture Mellon
collections Prints
Portraits by early American painters.
National Museum Constitution at Tenth NV
Paintings sculpture and objects
Johnston William Geay Ralph johnson
collections Foyer Natural History Building W. p A. Exhibition
Federal Housing in America September l5 Lobby
lent by Count and Countess Bohdan de Caselane.
Library of Congress, Department OF Fine
Capitol seets-Ecings ngaving and Autographs
the National Print Collection Original
Illustration Photographs
Art reading and reference library.
Gallery of
NWPantng and sculpture by American bronzes
Tapestries The w A Clark collection
Corcoran Art School faculty exhibition, September
DunbarOn Oaks Research Library Thirty
Examples of early Christian and medieval Panels showing the
results of chemical tests of artists
subjects by children
Pan American Union Seventeenth street and Constitution
NWWok by South and Central American artists craftsmen
Public Library Southwest Branch streets SW-
Paintings Phillips Memorial Gallery
Nye Settlement House.
d. A. r. Building, Seventeenth NW-Engraved
portraits the Declaration Independence
September 15
Whye Gallery 1907 street NW-Room decorations, paintings
ceramics, etc, opening tomorrow.
District W. p A. Galleries, Sl6 Independence SW
A. of
Circus and the Zoo. To September 81.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
By J. ". Sfebb

solos under the appropriate heading
of Hot TrumpetS." The tempera-
ture OF the individual solos in most
instances is high. You could hardly
expect otherwise with such men as
Cootie Williams, MuggSy Spanier,
Buck Clayton ct al in the slot At
the same time there IS some first
rate band work and vocalizing that
shouldn't escape attention, namely
in the Ellington, Teddy Wilson and
Red MckenZie'S Mound City Blue
Blowers performances and the ef-
forts Of Billie Holiday Cearly Holiday.
mind YOU and Bessie Smith. A few
random titles: why Was I Born"
Echoes of Harlem" "One and Two
Blues" "Darktown Strutters Ball"
Single Miscellany.
The sweetest song afloat today
is L Don't Want to Set the World
on Fire" At any rate. that's our
view, man to man. Mood of the
number is captured best by Tommy
fuckers band with Amy ArneIl and
the Voices Three. Next best: Hor-
ace Heidt's disc and that of the
CharioteerS. From the new movie
Sun Valley Serenade" come three
tunes of the Mack Gordon Harry
Warren book, Kiss Polka" 1T
Happened in Sun Valley" and "At
Last" The latter is most tuneful in
its torchy way and gets nice re-
cordlng from Ina Ray Hutton'S
band. Glenn Miller records the
former pair with proper bounce.
Benny Goodman's La Rosita" is a
quietly brilliant job, but the reverse,
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" rou-
tine. Raymond Scott makes Beau
Night in HotchkiSS Corners" a solid
chunk of swing; Merry Carrousel"
on the other side is strictly ferry
boat-SerenadiSh. "Delilah," who
may well turn out to be the success
sor to Josephine, makes her debut
with the aid of Art Jarrett's outfit:
reverse. Nickel Serenade," finds the
SmoothieS in top form for the vocal.
Jan Savitt gives Chattanooga
Choo-Choo" the customary shuttle
beating. Wayne King goes frivolous
in his own gentle way with "Jumpin'
Jupiter" Coleman Hawkins "Sere-
made to Sleeping Beauty is a re-
strained, neatly forged instrumental.
Vocalist Betty Bradley puts over Bob
Chester's You Were Meant for Me"
and "A New Shade of Blue" Con-
verSely, Dave Roses excellent band
helps Tony Martin a great deal with
If It's You" and Don't Take Your
Love From Me"-a record of the
month. Dick Robertsons band SUBJ
mits a parody, Answer to You Are
My Sunshine ziggy Talent of
Vaughn Monroe's band makes with
the comedy relief in Sam You
Made the Pants Too Long" which is
set to the tune of Lord You Made
the Night Too Long" if any one
cares.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

ton. To an extent, they have mel
lowed with age, but just enough to
enhance their richness without loss
of individuality. Too many paint
ingS Of the English school have been
oVer-cleaned and heavily repainted
by restorers to please the unknowing
who wish them 'freshened up'-a
practice greatly to be deplored.
Outstanding Canvases.
The court decision legalizing a
National Gallery of Art promptly
bore fruit by way OF gifts. Almost
directly, the William T. Evans COL
lection of contemporary paintings
was given to the Nation, and the
Ralph Cross Johnson collection of
works by world masters was so be-
queathed. The former comprises
such outstanding canvases by Amer
lean painters as the Coast OF
Maine" by Winslow Homer: THE
Visit Of NicOdemus to Christ" by
John La Fargo, and "Sundown," by
George InnesS. Included in the
johnson collection are works by the
greatest artists of all time, conspicu-
Gus among which are portraits by
Reynolds, Romney, Gainsborough,
Lawrence, Hogarth and Raeburn.
and landscapes by Cox, Wilson and
GainsbOrough. Five of the portraits
are OF men-'Lord Abercrombie. =" by
Lawrence: Lord Musgrave." by
G ins bor ough; Sir Sampson
Wright by Romney; "Viscount
Hill" by Reynolds, and archibald
Skirving," by Sir Henry Raeburn
The four mentioned are fine ex-
amples and give indication of the
painters power, when character was
TO be portrayed without regard to
the vanity of the sitter, to produce
paintings voraciously interpretative
But 1t is the fifth OF these portraits
( that OF Skirving by Raeburn-Which
transcendS them all, taking its place
among the greatest OF the great.
Archibald Skirving was a colleague
OF Raeburn, fellow artist of Edin-
burgh, a man, when this portrait
was done, of advanced years, and no
| one, not even Rembrandt, ever rem
| dered old age more beautifully than
did Raeburn when painting his
friend.
The face is strongly modelled. the
expression intensely vital. Behind
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Symphony
Plans New
Series
Pop Concerts
Will Be Given
At Riverside

Seats will go ON sale Thursday
morning for the National Symphony
Orchestra's first series of Pop" con-
certs, which will be inaugurated
Monday evening, September %, at
Riverside Stadium, Twenty sixth
and D streets NV Seats for the
concerts will be sold at the Sym
phony box Office in kits Music
Store, 1880 G. street NV.
For it's first experiment in the
field Of Pop" concerts the National
Symphony has scheduled season
OF six concerts-two concerts week
at $3.50 o'clock Monday and Thurs
day evenings over period OF three
weeks.
Will Serve Refreshments.
Frankly patterned after the IA
nous and successful Pop" concerts
OF the Boston Symphony, the Ma
tional Symphony's Pops" like their
predecessors, will add the attrac-
tionS OF beer, light wines and sand
wiches to those Of good music. The
floor of Riverside Stadium-hereto-
fore the scene OF boxing and wres-
tling matches ice follies. etc.-will be
set with tables, enough to accom-
modate 1,200 people, which will be
served quietly by mattresses
throughout the concerts. Table
service is not possible for those fill
ing the 5000 regular seats OF River
! side Stadium, but there will be two
intermisSions during each concert
SO that those sitting in these sec
tionS can get refreshments at the
lunch counters.
Although this will be the National
Symptoms first entry into that
/ field, the idea of Pop" concerts is
not a new one with Hans Kinder;
| conductor of the orchestra. AS long
ago as 1895, when the Sunset
Symphonies" were inaugurated, DR..
Kinder planned to have refresh
ments served at tables at the Water
Gate. This, however, was not pos
| sible, since the Water Gate is a
! Government property on which the
sale OF beer and wine is forbidden.
Programs Are Tentative.
The success Of the Water Gate
concerts, particularly this last sum-
merS, has encouraged DR.. Kinder
to extend the activities and services
of the orchestra. and the forthcom-
ing series of Pop" concerts Is the
result.
Arrangements for the strictly
musical part of the new concerts are
still tentative. DR.. Kinder will con-
duct the opening concert but the
remaining five concerts will be di-
rected by one or two guest con-
/ ductors who have not yet been
! selected. Programs will, of course.
be of the popular" variety. and
guest artists will undoubtedly be
| drawn from the ranks of those ar
fists of great audience appeal.
Prices, in keeping with the nature
Of the concerts, will be low and
/ tickets may be bought in strips of
] five.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Popular Music

Oscar StrauS, long noted for his
operettaS and the fact that he is no
relative Of the WaltZ-king StrauSSeS,
makes an unexpected appearance ON
records this week. This composer
OF the melody assumes the role
OF conductor with the Columbia
Concert Orchestra in melange of
some OF his most dearly loved tunes.
The selections all are taken from his
operettas, principally Chocolate
Soldier" and Mr.. Straus sends the
polished Columbia orchestra
through its PAGES with great care.
Furthermore, 1t is gratifying for a
change to hear Straus music without
the inevitably caterwauling soprano
in such. for example, as My Hero" 3"
Included also on the eight surfaces
are the excellent Waltz Dreams"
and Last Waltz" and then the
"Entr Acte and Letter Intermezzo,"
Soldiers Love" "Minuet la Cour,'
II Know What I Want" There Are
Things One Must Forget
Completely devoted to the waltz
is new Victor set entitled Invita-
ton to the Waltz" which features
Organist Dick Liebert and his or
chestra. The combination of organ
with orchestra provides an unusual
medium for giving voice to MesSrs.
StrauS. Won Weber and Lehar, espe-
cially as Liebert plans it. In fact,
the manner in which he weaveS the
tOnal fiber OF the console with its
orchestral component is downright
skillful, little triumph in tasteful
balance. The selections are above
reproach, too: Thousand and One
Nights Waltz" Emperor" You
and You" Tales From Vienna
Woods" Wine, Women and Song"
Treasure Waltz" Merry Widow"
Invitation to the Waltz"
At the other end of the musical
pole, Columbia has added a new
set to its annals of Jazz Classics, 3"
this one being an assortment of re-
prints carrying prominent trumpet
Evening star., 1941-09-07

English Portrait School Is
Well Represented Here
Three Gainsboroughs Among
Items in Clark Collection
Presented to COrc0ran
Bv Leila MechHn.

Attention having been properly the paintings
by British artists the National Gallery of
at IN other public collections
no means Ill represented For example in the Corcoan Gallery Of Art
among bequeathed Clark
GansboroughS Reynolds Raeburn Hogarh and
quality all of which, with the exception of Gansboroghs
and Anchors
are portraits
luton of the English school.
he continued naming the several examples by
served fortnight simplicity
olon OF Van Dyck brilliant painting
and Gaborogh turns the couy convention epoch
OF technical the distinguished
ndue raised higher
VaIaSqueZ Lawrence with his
lion INTO the uSos but still accomplished
mus together they brief but illuminating
history of British painting
To which, postscript fact
OF these paintings
ana individual appeal being in the with which he
literally fell in love. 1890 ~ "
Inc majority OF these paintings hang
eEy opening OH the landing OF the