Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

Charges" and disclaiHas- all responsibility fol
the Reverends ulcers. Moreover ne is Just
as firm about not wanting to renew hi
marriage with Dorothy as she is.
Il wouldn't live with that woman again II
they paid mel" he asserted in an interview
with correspondent of The American Weekly
Then he explained how he happened to have
lived with her in the past, without getting
paid for it.
while l was i'll and they cared for me. Dor
othy and 1 saw a lot Of one another and W.
drifted into marriage"
This drift occurred on September IL, 1896
Seven months later an opposite
current-caused, he says by Dor
othys chilly treatment of his
carried them apart. They
were divorced in 1888 and she re-
ceved the custody Of their infant
son and SIS week alimony.
Mr. Holiday returned his at
tentions TO the church organist,
on whom they had been firmly
fixed before Dorothy entered the
picture After an eight months
courtship they were wed on
Christmas morning. 1888, and
just exactly four days later the
bridegroom received notice from
the Church Council that his SER
vices as chor-master and soloist
were no longer desired.
This did not seem to him 10 be
merely coincidence nor did an
even more drastic epstle from
the same body which reached him
a couple of weeks later
Dear Bud" this one said (Mr.
Holiday being known by this
name even TO his eX-intimates) The Council
regrets very much that your actions have
made it imperative to write you another
letter TO tell you that you are not to appear
in the choir in any capacity"
Bud was deeply shocked for he has an ex-
cellent tenor voice and now, if he wanted to
air it in church at all. it would have 10 be in
a very dilute form. thoroughly adulterated by
the voices of the rank and file.
So he gathered few sympathzers about
him and retreated TO the fringes of outer
darkness, Sinners Row." where he not only
was scarcely audible but also he thought
scarcely visible. Some feminine churchgoers
were more panied by the latter state than by
the former. because Buds physiognomy is as
easy on the eye his voice is on the ear
He has been called a blond edition of Anthony
Eden.
But apparently, even in eclipse he did not
go wholly unobserved. Dorothy's eloquen,
description Of his "grimaces" suggests that
she had him in view; her father, facing the
congregation. could not help seeing him; anc
he seems to have caught the eye of few
others, notable among whom was Henry C.
Thayer, member Of the august Council.
People can't pray for looking at him, >
declared Mr. Thayer. And after the service
is over he goes up to the Reverend Mr.. Boul.
ton shakes his hand and says: The sermon
was fine. Too bad you don't practice what you
preachr"
Still others of the old guard added the
charge that various scapegraces of the back
row delighted in giving latecomers the wrong
hymnal numbers that for instance, when
the standing congregation sang out the words
of some such hymn "Oh Beulah Land
Sweet Beulah Land" the tardy unaware of
the deceit practiced upon them would falter-
ingy lend their voices to "Oh, Were Little
Child Again"-a sinners" designation.
AS might be imagined, the new choir-mas-
ter suffered especially from the last outrage
but he was poweress 10 start everybody over
again on the right hymn.
Holiday admitted that he had told his ex-
father-in-law to practice what he preached