The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1932, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2: , 1982 HELEN HAYES PLAYS SPECTACULAR ROLE IN MIXED ROMANCE Mother of ‘Act of God’ Baby Sued For $100,000 By Husband’s Former Wife CHARGED WITH ALIENATION Chicago Newspaperman and Pretty Movie Critic Figure In Sensational Case Editor’s Note: This is the sec- ond of a series of six stories de- tailing glamorous romances that have marked true love triangles of 1932, a subject made timely by the three-cornered Libby Hol- man-Smith Reynolds-"Ab” Walk- er tragedy in North Carolina. The remaining stories will follow daily. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) | “Broadway's brightest who | became the mother of the celebrated | “Act of God” baby— A Chicago newspaper reporter who | rose to fame as a playwright, co- author of “Lulu Belle” and “The Front Page”— A girl movie critic on the same newspaper who was the playwright’s first wife and who is now suing his/ second, the actress, for $100,000 on the accusation that she is a “love pi- rate”— ! These are the three persons who} stand today at the points of a real} life “love drama” as intense as any} footlight drama in which the famous actress ever appeared, which the noted playwright ever wrote or which the girl movie critic ever reviewed. * # * | Since these three principals have! ell been connected with the theater, | it might be well to introduce them to the reader in that manner and tell their story as it might be unfolded on the stage in a threc-act play. Here is the cast of characters: The Girl Movie Critic sees darssssueess.. Cntal Prink The Reporter-Playwright «Charles MacArthur The Actress-Love Pirate......... seeee Helen Hayes Time: 5 arlier scenes going back to 1920. Supporting cast: Helen Hayes’ “Act of God” baby, newspaper workers, other playwrights, Broadway night-life figures, divorce attorneys, judges and j a deputy sheriff who serves | the papers on Miss Hayes in the $100,000 suit. Now go on with the plot of this drama from real life. ACT I | It is August, 1920, and the scene! is in a Chicago newspaper office.| Charles MacArthur, the up-and-com- ing young reporter, and Carol Frink, | an attractive girl reporter who occu-!| pies the adjoining desk, decide to do/ something they have been planning for a long time—elope to New York and wed secretly. They do, and Charlie's father, the Rev. William T. MacArthur, performs the ceremony in a little church around the corner from Broadway. Perhaps Charlie and Carol do not know—certainly, neither cares—that just then a rising young actress is; playing in Mary Roberts Rhinehart’s “Bab” at the Park Theater and get-/ ting her name in the electric lights for the first time. The latter is Helen Hayes, who had been a child prodigy } under Lew Fields, the comedian, and had played in “Pollyanna,” “Penrod,” | “Dear Brutus” and “Clarence” with] increasing success. { The happy newlyweds return to; Chicago, their marriage still a secret to their newspaper associates. Even- tually, the secret leaks out. Charlie says they are “tremendously happy.” | Carol says the same. | Charlie decides to become a play- | wright, Carol promises to help him.! She will work and support them while he writes plays. They are happy for a time and then Charlie grows irrit- able . . . Carol grows irritable, too. Charlie becomes temperamental, de- claring that he can’s write unless al- lowed to sit on the floor beside his wife’s bed and pound on his type- writer while she tries to sleep. Even- tually he finishes writing “Lulu Belle” | and departs for New York in search! of a producer. Carol quits her job and goes with him, perhaps some-;| what reluctantly for (so she later declared) on the night of their wed- ding anniversary in 1922 he had at- tacked her with his fists because he didn’t like her dress and in April of that year had chased her out of the house at midnight when she com- Plained his bedside typewriter dis- turbed her. ACT II It is September, 1923, and Charlie and Carol have drifted apart. She is working on a Boston newspaper, he is meeting with increasing success as a playwright in New York and is now a familiar figure in Broadway night life. Carol returns to Chicago where she files suit for divorce. calls with flowers for the afflicted author and there meets Charlie. He Broadway Star in |formers appeal to the Actors’ Equity Real LAY, { | | | HELEN HAYES MRS. CHARLES Mas ARTHUR NO2 " MACARTHUR AND THEIR Life Triangle'TAX VALUATION OF CAROL FRINK. THE FIRST WIFE ACT OF GOD BABY" the state supreme court upheld the; TOLOTTERY CHARGE begs Helen Hayes to marry him. She Lodge leaders Released on Bail is starring in “Coquette” at the Max: ine Elliott theater. Helen accepts | After Appearance in Federal Court Charlie's proposal, and immediately | after the ceremony is performed by | a New York magistrate Helen goes| back to the theater to play her role as the little southern flirt who, in) the final scene, kills herself offstage | with a pistol. | Helen Hayes goes on tour in “Co-| quette.” Ultimately, her career in} this play is interrupted by the ap-| proaching arrival of a baby. Helen W York, Aug, 24—(?)—Conrad H. breaks her contract to go back to New | Mann, of Kansas City, director gener- York and the show closes. She jus-|2! of the fraternal order of Eagles; tifies the breaking of the contract by|Pernard C. McGuire, of New York, contending that the birth of a baby | head of the B.C. McGuire Merchan- is “an act of God.” Jed Harris, pro- | @s* Comp: SE ee ne ducer of the play, tries to tell the ptigbeag Me DER or other performers the same Magazine; M. J. Revise, of the when they demand the customai Union Telegraph company, extra pay for two weeks upon the iy eae nee antite one a show: Thapar: ea e sudden closing of the show. Tie per. dictments charging them with pro- gs and distributing tickets for a and with conspiracy. | The defendants were arraigned be- ‘fore Federal Judge John C. Knox, Bail was fixed for McGuire at $2,500, d for each of the other defendants xt $1,000. Louis Mead Treadwell, as- tant U. S. attorney, told the court 1 would be satisfactory bonds were posted by a sure- association; the assoviation decides that the birth of Helen Hayes’ baby is not an act of God, so Producer Harris has to pay. After the birth of her baby, Helen takes a turn at the movies and s in “The Sin of Madelon Claudet’ and other pictures. The final scene in this drama of | real life finds Helen Hayes playing in |°” ‘The Good Fairy” in Chicago, just recently. One night as she le: the theater a deputy sheriff ser her with papers notifying her tha she has been made defendant in a $100,000 damage suit filed by Carol. p: The arraignments took place Wed- nesday under only two of the four in- dictments returned last week by a federal grand jury as a result of U. 8. Attorney orge Z. Medalie’s inquiry into the sale of alleged lottery tickets The charge is that the actress stole , wh ‘i Charlie's affections, says Attorney te bye spsc pepmubichrimperarer recency Gerald P. Wiley, representing Carol. | ve EPILOGUE two indictments related to f tickets among members of 5 nal order of Eagles and the , Mystic Shrine. No members of the Mystic Shrine or the Knights of Col- , Which were alleged to have distributed tickets obtained through the Eagles, were indicted for the rea- son, Medalie explained last week, that no members of either of those orders had participated in the profits from {the sale of the tickets. | Arraignments under the two in- jdictments growing out of the alleged \sales of tickets through the Loyal Or- {der of Moose was postponed until next | Tuesday. | Treadwell explained to the court ‘that United States Senator James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, a national executive of the Moose, and Theodore Miller, of Mooseheart, IIL, are at- tending the national convention of ;the order. Davis and Miller were named in both of the indictments with McGuire and Walsh. Carol's $100,000 “love piracy” suit awaits trial. Charlie and Helen are so far as the latest accounts go. Ari Mary Hayes MacArthur, the “Act of God” baby, is now a chubby little toddler who looks for all the world like her famous mother who has made millions of theater patrons and movie-goers alternately laugh and cry. TOMORROW: The «triangular love affair of: 1. Aimee Semple McPherson, the famous evangelist. 2. David L. Hutton, 223-pound Romeo and business manager of her Angelus Temple. 3. Myrtle Joan St. Pierre, the comely Los Angeles nurse who says Hutton jilted her for the evangelist and thereby gave her a $200,000 heartache. Freight Lines Are Given State Permits eer Merchant Certificates authorizing operating; Succumbs at Leal | Leal, of special motor freight service have! N.D., Aug. 24.—(#)—Joseph 1 { North Dakota mer- been issued by the state railroad’ Ritter, 70, pioneer be commission to S. S. Grantham of chant, died at 7 p. m. Tuesday after a few days illness of pneumonia. He Emerado, Webster Wohlwent of Lid-| had been a merchant in Leal 20 years gerwood, and the Livestock Meat and and prior to that time was located Produce Co. of Carrington. for 30 years at va City. i | Besides his widow, he leaves a The commission also set hearings! . on other paplications for special oe Cou ae, Mee near an tificates. Among hearings set are: | Sept. . E. Burzick, Hettinger,' and Melvin Walby, Hettinger, at Het-| ‘Pion school, and two sons, Harry of Great Falls, Mont., and Amos of Fort Ben- ton. tinger. ‘i —} last night. She is on a vacation trip sae » T—L. A. Roberts, Mott, at/through the Rocky Mountains and is Sept. 8—John Derschan, Dodge, ani q | believed somewhere between Yellow- Charles Blocker, Elbowoods, at Dodge; | George Weber, Hebron, at Hebron. Sept. 13—City Dray Line, Medina, at Medina; R. C. Zimmerman, Lis4 bon, at Lisbon. stone National and Bryce Canyon Na- tional Parks. American Consulate 5 dua Renovate Will itl, Spain, “Aug. 24-1 —Un j A! to 4 unch Hot Campaign (cried pens ei ie amin jthe night, but the flames were ex- jtinguished before serious damage had been done. Part of the building was drenched with gasoline and ignited. A watchman discovered the fire. Although the identity of the arsen- ists was unknown, it was reported that official circles believed them to \be Communists. Sioux Falls, 8. D., Aug. 24—(P}— More than 100 prominent Democrats of South Dakota laid the basic foun- dation for their fall campaign activi- ties Tuesday at a meeting attended by virtually the entire state Demo- cratic ticket, Preliminary steps for the campaign were taken simultaneously with the announcement that Patrick J. Hurley, ‘secretary of war, would open the Re- publican campaign in the northwest. at Huron, Sept. 14, the same date the| More Bonus Marches state campaign will be started. Announcement of Secretary Hur-| Bemidji, Minn., Aug. 24.—(#)—The ley’s appearance was contained in a|Minnesota department of the Amer- jican Legion, in annual seoiypaanes ‘here Tuesday, went on record a j Legionnaires Oppose jthe principal of Valley City high Mrs. Ward had not been located | At Seville Attacked cates could best be obtained through efforts of legislative committees rep- {resenting various service men’s or- ganizations. A resolution adopted by )the Legionnaries Monday demanded \immediate cash payment of the cer- | tiftcates. BUSINESS PROBERS | HEAR NEW CHARGES Complete Testimony on Govern- ment Operation of Missis- | sippi Barge Lines South Bend, Ind., Aug. 24.—(>)— The Shannon congressional commit- tee, after completing its hearing on government operation of Mississippi river barge lines, turned its atten- tion Wednesday to other complaints of unfair federal competition with private business. Members of the committee, headed by Representative Joseph B. Shan- non of Kansas City, Mo., will report ; to the next congress on their study of government competition with private business. James L. Donnelly, executive vice- president of the Illinois Manufactur- ers’ association, told the committee Tuesday an increase of $3,775,000,000 in federal expenditures in the past 19 years to a large extent can be traced directly to the government’s business and commercial ventures. Most of these, he said, have been operated at & loss. Hearing on the barge service oper- ation was.concluded with testimony from Rome C. Stephenson, South Bend banker and former president of the American Bankers’ association, speaking in behalf of railroads, and oom C. C, Webber of St. Louis, presi- dent of the upper Mississippi Barge Line Company, and George C. Miller, Mishawaka, Ind., manufacturer, who , Said he operated barges on the Ohio {Tiver 20 years ago. {| Miller told the committee he would ‘produce evidence of secret contracts with shippers which he said had been made by the federal barge service. According to Chinese tradition, use of cloth was evolved from the prac- tice of women carrying their children in fiber nets. Rubber Stamps We Make Them Commercial Service, Inc. Hoskins Block Phone 400 Labor Da |cent-a-mile Excursions Between all Northern Pacific points in Min- nesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Mani- toba. Sale Dates— September 2, 3, 4 and 5. Return limit, mid- ; Livestock Increases in Number, bere changes this year are immate- rial, Assessed valuation of all personal property was placed at $122,378,546 by county boards, while a year ago the state board equalized the value at $144,493,842. County board figures showed an increase of cattle over last year, with 1,376,810 cattle listed compared to 1,215,452 a year ago. The, assessed valuation of cattle was placed by county boards at $19,777,- 693, compared with the state board’s valuation of $24,189,130 a year ago. Young Stock Increases Since last year calves under one year old increased from 321,415 to 361,050, yearlings to 24 months old, increased from 227,528 to 270,525, and ohter cattle two years and over from 95,391 to 98,141. Sheep increased from 687,385 to 790,904, while hogs, numbered at 233,- 312 this year, were 20,000 less than a year ago. The total number of horses was placed at 455,554 this year, a decrease of 54,000 under last year’s total. Work horses, three years old and over, how- ever, increased from 320,999 a year ago to 345,450 this year. ‘ ‘There was a general decrease in farm and ranch equipment this year. Last year there was a total of 33,639 tractors, compared with 30,737 this year; separators decreased from 12,- 620 to 11,462. There was g slight in- crease in the number of combines PROPERTY IN STATE SHOWS SLIGHT DROP Equipment Shows Big Reduction | County boards of equalization re- turned the assessed valuation of North Dakota real &nd personal prop- erty at $938,274,196, according to fig- ures submitted to the state board of equalization. The state board last year placed the value of real and personal prop- erty at $962,959,294. Real estate, including farm lands, lots : nd leased sites, unplatted indus- trial business or residence sites, busi- ness structures and residence struc- tures, was returned by county boards at $815,895,650, compared with last year’s state board of equalization fig- ure of $818,465,452. There is no reassessment of real estate in an even numbered. year and no equalization of real estate except as to new property, consequently real Ethel Clayton CTUALLY growing more attrac- tive every year! 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Farm juipment Drops The total value of farm and ranch equipment was equalized by county boards at $24,285,215, compared with the state board’s figure of $30,102,357 & year ago. County boards equalized household goods, furniture, equipment and ap- pliances at $11,931,250, compared with the state board’s figure of $13,011,703 Jast year, given an assessed value of $13,- were Retail merchants’ stocks 954,658 by county boards, while last year the state board's valuation was $17,571,364, Assessed value of shares of stock of banks or loan and trust companies was placed at $3,313,298, compared with $4,152,760 a year ago. The state board of equalization, which is now equalizing assessments, will equalize the county boards’ as- sessments before the end of the month when it is scheduled to com- plete its work. Cass County Pioneer Dies Near Wheatland Fargo, Aug. 24—(?)—Death early Wednesday of William Forrest, 83, at his farm home south of Wheatland, ended a residence in Cass county dating back more than half a cen- tury. Forrest, whose death was due to complications arising from ad- vanced age, came to this territory 53 eeeneral services will be held in the Wheatland Methodist church Thurs- day, with burial in the Wheatland cemetery. Surviving are the widow and 11 children: William of Missoula, Mont, John of Belfield, N. D., Ed of Lisbon, Mrs. Robert User of Sheldon, Arthur of Jamestown, Joseph, Roy, and Net- tie of Minneapolis; Fred of Wheat- land, Elmer of Chicago and Irene of ‘Winnipeg. Mrs. Morris Speaks To Nebraska Legion Norfolk, Neb. Aug. 24.—()—Ne- braska Legiol and Auxiliary members Tuesday forgot the bonus issue and convention manners to ap- pear in a colorful parade witnessed ‘py 20,000 persons in the Norfolk busi- ness section. 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