New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 26

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ife-and- eath "ecrets of the il en oved oo ell " .. Romances, Heartbreabs, Artistic ‘ Triumphs and Tragedies Behind the Curtain of Jeanne ¥l Eagels’ Tempestuous [SUNEEMNNRY 5.2 i it She Was Buried Near Her Home in Kansas City, Mo. . summoncd hey in o May, 192 a hearing was suspend half d heavily one of the stiffest penaltics ever imposcd on a member of Her answer to Equity was a def o predicted sie would come back Lroadway before the end of But the gates of the imate stag were barred to he « turned to the movies. Oddly enough, she w not offered the leading ro 1 creen production of *Rain” because feaved her temperament would 0o _much for the directors. and She did, however, appear in scveral “Jun ,* one of her last ones, “Hamilto “Jealousy,” creating a sensation. B ; e 15-the s he loved and to which (it R wanted to return. ment upon her work, and If temperament—or spirit or what producers watched h r it might be termed—dominat e e rofcssional carecer, it w in her private lifc when she was fame, that the did not publish some new 4 to a Thsi it her—perhaps too well ¢ social ambitions were a part of her 3 ¢ re for succes life she almost 10 Get a Foothold X WAl v ) zed them hen 1 was engaged oo : : : to marry Whitney Warren, Jr., son of 5 g ocia prominent and b York architect. But bef 1921, she was reported to be « 4 to Clifton Webb, ancer \i the time Wcehb was not as wel known as he is today. There was sur wize in theatrical civeles, therefore, ) austere Jeanne lagels had hobbed up again in the a result of a trip acro hoard e steamer La aire stevedore Auditore was a friend of Miss Bagels, and there who loved her and had sought her hand in matrimony. Hahad g riior it. was reported, the diamond necklace, worth $30,000, £ which she wore dur- Ihe Larze Photograph of Jennne Lagels at the X g | ing the voyage back Lett Is One of the Last Taken When She Was . i i to America at the Height of Mer . " But during this Ca he Charmi S e %8 ; ' i trip a strange thing Photographic Study L B y y oceurred. The neck ol Miss Lagels at the | 3 lace was torn from Rizht Was Made SHED S.a ey Miss Eagels and AT AtoR) thrown into the e 9 ; : the public was co o ; 4 cerned the myste spirit, her ambit Before She Invaded Broadway A thing to do with her iempestuous 1 i f ¢ Her mother Spanish. And t ture of heredity was a girl o beauty and grace and a restless amb 1e Lagels Life. Left 1o Right: Leslie tion 1, Her Le 2 Man on the Stage; Ted Coy, Famous Yale Football Star Whom She The life of anne Lagels properly arried and Three Years Later Divoreed: Whitcey Warren, Jr., Whose Engugement Marry Miss may be divided into her theatrica agels Was Suddenly Jimmy Auditore. Milliona Stevedore, Who Gave Miss Eagels a carcer and her roman expe nee echlace Val 1 230,000, Ihe Necklace was Mysteriously Torn from But through both, like river Her Neck and Thrown Overboard During an Ocean Trip All rumors as to her engagement to Webb—or, for that to Auditore—were discarded was announced she was to litn Warren, Jr ¢ L surprise when isted she able to identif; man who tore ewels from her neck, Auditore de- nied reports that he had done so in a fit of jealousy. denying that the (wo intended to ] lle sailed away to Ceylon WE l‘ Gy ltl‘l e v‘}.‘v‘::|,’,“vi‘1‘”::;x’: i n August, 1925, th were mnai home of Fay Bainter. But romance did not last long. hree iter Mizs Bagles divoreed Co, h ng cruclty In the same yeq Faqu mned her from Broad Her world of success and happine ad collapsed. She turned Lo picture her eyes hothered her : i Recently Mi agles was believed I i e el ;. finally cured. At about the same time e | ntive Bouity lifted the ban against her. She wias thrown out of work. She was very happy It meant the medthenn alltolHer eointiy home | rotarn Lotthe . Another play but they did not stay was what she w There was another play. [t was a Actors’ Equity Ascocia nt tragedy. Jeanne Eagle as the T only charac And the only e G ; applausc c from her just 15 a sigh. Then the y | mu\.uminl the Elite nt down, swiftly, noizeless| Staze and Sereen y 2s it always docs at the end of a play Mo., where " A " . -] S An Literesting Photograph of Miss Eagels in a Canoe with John Gilhert. It Was Taken in Washington the Soon After She Was Banned from the Stage by Equity. 4 wl gone into Ll 1401 R I U1 7471 B P BTV BT YW1, % iy, oy ) vy,

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