Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1937, Page 8

A—8 ANNHARDINE N BYMUSIEENUS Werner Janssen’s Ardent Courtship Bared in Fil- ing Paper. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, January 16.—Film ac- tress Ann Harding, who fled America to keep the custody of her daughter and incidentally pick up a bit of movie | money in England, has found romance | as well—with an American. The golden-haired former wife of Harry Bannister will wed shy Werner Janssen, brilliant orchestra conductor and composer who fought his way up from New York's West Side cabarets to the podium of the New York Phil- harmonie. , Distressed because her second ro- mance had become public, Miss Hard- Ing indicated the wedding would be #oon, but would not say when or where. Bhe now is at Blackpool, one-night #tand in her tour of English provincial theaters with a revival of Bernard Shaw's “Candida.” Janssen, who visited her in Liver- Pool earlier this week, secluded himself in the country, having completed a symphonic engagement in London. Intentions to Wed Filed. News of the couple's engagement be- rame known with their filing of in- tent to wed at a London registry office. | “I had hoped to keep it quiet until | after my stage appearance in Lon-' don” Miss Harding said. “Now the date will have to be altered. I can- not bear a whole mob of people wor- rying me about my private affairs. “I want to be allowed to get on with my job." Werner, son of a New York hofbrau owner, has paid ardent court to Miss Harding in recent months. i She came here last Spring after a flight from Hollywood and through Canada to take her daughter outside the legal jurisdiction of American ourts, from which Bannister had ob- | tained an order permitting him to see | the child “at all reasonable times.” | She has made several English pictures during the last year. THE SUNDAY Dobbin Registers Fright This horse. which was drawing the wagon of Morris Gold- farb, peddler, when a taxi struck the vehicle on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York and threw Goldfarb to his death in the East River, was still in a bad state of fright when the photog- rapher arrived. Goldfarb left a wife and five children. —A. P. Photo. | | day that Werner became a musician manager, said tonight his brother | Miss Harding has won permission | because his dad made him practice the | Werner, the composer and orchestra from Hollywood courts to keep her | Piano all day to keep me awake, just | conductor, and Ann Harding. actress, daughter Jane in England until May, to get even with me for playing all | plan to be married in London Monday. ‘when she plans to return to Hollywood. | Janssen will accompany her, it was saidhere. | Miss Harding is 34, Janssen 37, | Miss Harding and Bannister were di- vorced in 1934. Janssen's first mar- | ringe ended in divorce last December. | Wins New York Laurels. Janssen was the first native New | Yorker to conduct the New York Phil- harmonic. He was guest director the season of 1935. and departed that Spring for appearances in Europe, | where he first won acclaim five years before. The actor, George M. Cohan, laugh- ngly lays claim to the credit for Jan- asen’s success in his art—Janssen's father had wanted him to go into the hofbrau business. | “I'll always claim personal responsi- | bility for Werner's success,” Cohan | aaid once. Tl hold 'til my dyi IRENE BORDONI « « . internationally famous singer of continental songs, makes this sponta- neous comment: “It's glorious . . . !” g gust Janssen, night and keeping him awake.” The two were neighbors in New York. Janssen ran away from home to con- | tinue his pursuit of music. He played | in New York cabarets, bars and dance | halls to get money. Munching & | doughnut, the story goes, he used to | sit in Central Park and study the | scores of symphonic compositions. i At 27 he combined jazz and the classical motif in a symphonic poem, “New Year's Eve,” that was presented by the Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra under Leopold Stokowski. Three vears later, 1930, he won the Frederic A. Juilliard fellowship for musical composition from the American Academy in Rome. | | WEDDING LIKELY TOMORROW. NEW YORK, January 16 (#) jr., New York resf The younger brother appeared to be | the only one of the Janssen family here who had known anything about | the romance. Reich Accidents Increase. Accidents on the new auto high- ways and country roads of Germany ! increased 28 per cent in the year end- ing in October. Psychic Message Councit 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th and “L" GROUP MEETINGS DAILY Grace Gray De Long, Reader Personal interviews for spiritual help and guidance may be arranged by a visit to the Council House or Tele- phone Metropolitan 5234. BARRYNOREGLUN OVERDNORGESUT Works as Usual, but Is Sil- ent on Legal Crash of Marriage. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 16. —John Barrymore, 54-year-old actor, worked ‘as usual today on the set of a film romantically titled “Maytime,” but maintained a brooding silence on the final legal crash of his mar- riage to 21-year-old Elaine Barrie. ‘That young woman—Ariel to Bar- rymore’s Caliban in their sensational cross-country romance which led to marriage two months ago—filed suit for divorce yesterday. Today she studied her role in the stage play, “The Return of Hanni- bal,” to open in San Francisco Feb- ruary 1. Hollywood simply said: you so.” Barrymore flatly refused to see re- porters who sought to question him on Miss Barrie’s charges that he struck her, called her names, falsely accused her of attentions to other men and was jealous of her desire to iollow her ‘“chosen career.” Miss Barrie (nee Jacobs) said she did not intend to ask for “permanent alimony.” “All I want,” she said, “is funds |to tide me over for the present. I |am sorry it had to happen this way. I wish him all of luck.” “I told for “reasonable alimony,” $10,000 attorney's fees and $1,000 court costs {from his film earnings. which she estimated as more than $3,000 a | week. Homecraft Club to Meet. The Capital Homecraft Club will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the home of Andrew W. Bennett, 109 Taylor street, Chevy Chase, Md. Bennett, & Department of Justice employe, has a very complete woodworking shop as a hobby. 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Dewey, is shell- ing the citadels of racketland. | The battle of Manila Bay was over in a few hours. - The current battle ' has been waging a year and a half and is scheduled to continue until| next Summer at least. Casualties have been numerous | | amorg the enemy’s ranks. They are counted in terms of indictments and | prison sentences. | War on Three Fronts. | Warming to the fray after a slow- | paced start, Dewey and his little army | of special agents opened fire on three | widely separated fronts last week ard | prepared to move on a fourth Monday. | With characteristic suddenness, fo'- | lowing: months of secret preparation, | his men smashed into the highly or- | arrest of four men on bakery rockete ganized Harlem pelicy racket Thurs- day night and came away with 70| prisoners, including one man_ he de- scribed as the co-ringleader and 19 “executives.” . 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