Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Troubles Of the
> Papa Of IWQl
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IKE The lilies of the field, glamo
toll not, neither do they spin
- Their fathers, however, have
and spin plenty to keep their glamour
and shiny.
Or so, at least, complained Mr.. Pa
ester-and he ought to know, for
had the dubious pleasure of bring
Martha Stephenson Kemp Mature,
matinee idol Vic Mature, and Susan S
son Schrafft, who married George S
the candy heir, last year.
And. OF course Martha and heI
Susan are two of the brightest stars
glamour galaxy.
Mr. Forester isn't exactly their par
their step-papa but that doesn't
from the significance of his compla
cause he's had full charge OF them sin
were 10 and 8 respectively. and anyl
he tells it, the father of a glamour
not father in the ordinary sense.
He is just somebody TO run erran
the bills and keep out from underfoC
Unwittingiy stepping into this &c
man" role in 1929 when he married \
and Susan's divorced mama, Mr.. J
PLAYED it steadily and, so far as tn
knew, uncomplainingly until few wee
Then, by way Of answering his Wit
for separation and alimony, which ";
dropped after being settled out Of &C
loosed his long pent-up' Indignation
The picture he painted Of the har'
glamour girls papa may If view
believed by enough other papas, ruin III
glamour industry for at least a gen
Grafton.
II may be the first sign OF a
great awakening, a movement dedi-
Gated 10 the emancipation OF under
privileged papas everywhere
In any case. while his income
from a Wall street brokerage firm
dwindled through the depression
years from a high of S72 900 year
10 a low - in 1941 49, Of $3,443 Mr..
Forester declares that the graph Of
his domestic happiness showed a
correspondingly dizzy drop
Martha and Susan. he says, both
did their small best TO help speed
things from bad TO worse, but he
does not blame them so
much as their mother,
who is some 90 years his
Junior and who, according
TO him, has repeatedly
attempted 10 indoctrinate
them with her own phi
losophy."
she feels" he told
the court, in trying 70
explain what her philoso- "A
ply is. that everyone in
this world should do as
he or she pleases.
Her idea Of marriage
was that husband and
wife go different ways,
\ have different sets of
] friends and follow
their natural bents in
any dire ction they
want.
And the result, he
asserts, is that she and
her daughters both
whoop around TO night
clubs. stay up until all
hours, consort with all
kinds Of people, and in
general look on home
as just place 20 hang
your hat II you haven't
left II some place else.
Not caring for this
sort OF thing himself -
even if he could afford it
he adds that he has
been "relegated into the
background %
IF the Court will con-
slider that l haven't had
one days vacation in over
seven years. it VIII readily
understand how difficult
my life has been and how
hard have tried 20 make
enough money 10 try to
assuage the plaintiffs
constant financial de-
mands up me.
IN our home today,
which consists of two and Aarti
one-half rooms, I have
been placed in what under
ordinary circumstances
would be the maids room, the dinner
which are or feet by 10 or II fee
MY wife, without my knowlet
moved the telephone from it's origin
and had 1t connected into her room
kthere are twin beds Without ever
Wing me, she invites her friends TO
the apartment for weeks at a time
imbued them with the same attitude
self of completely ignoring me so tn