The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1920, Page 11

_SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920 Imitators of Locklear Certain, Despite Fate DUELS Bei va All Daring Flyers Cupid, Love’s Referee, Counts Nine _-— Great Thrills the Lures Not Money| — Qn “Kid McCoy”=--But He’s Not Out Yet Dramatic Ends of Several of the World’s Greatest Air- - men Graphically Told by Thornton Fisher. Fighter Eclipses Famed Records of Blames All His Ventures on His ; ; Nat Goodwin, Lillian Russell “Elastic Heart’’—Married One Three Times THE SPIRIT Joprieleene. rl YOUNG woman haa confessed to the killing of Her husband ‘by throwing act! in hie face. She said she thought she would spoil his good looks and thus keep hima with her. This ts her plea—her great Tove for him ied her to do this im, order By Thornton Fisher. and De Wolf Hopper that he fight not, attract other Coprricht, 1920, by The Prem Publishing Ca, (The New York Evening World). enn J si ae sudden and spectacular death of Ormer Locklear, the most daring Her aot has already caused her un- of acrial acrobats whose feats constitute one of the most amazing 2 2 < told suffering and she is yet to endure Seinen a theanbapagicy ced lenin va is Romances Like a 5-Reel Thriller 0 rer soma gests a mass of material for those who profess an interest in the psychology - Sees Py ‘The story ts a end one and yet It has of youth. His personality was strangely inconsistent with his calling. Devoid of the “dash” one instinctively associates with a man capable of performing such hair-raising stunts, he was the utter antithesis of the imagination’s fancy. & great lesson, 1 do not believe one throws acid for love. Qne does it in a Passion—fer apite, How could any one keep the love of a peraon whom eby or he had tried to injure? Of all such cases we hear about there ts not one that oan be justified on the Plea of love only, For example, had this woman's husband lived and been Gisfigured for life, how could she pos- gibly have retained his love as a re- ‘gult of such an act? Evory time be fooked at himself in the glass he would have realised that the cause of his misfortune was the bereon who supposedly loved him most. 7 , I know @ young woman who was fm love with the eweetheart of her best girl friend. In order to win him away she lied about tho other girl, It was the kind of a thing that had the semblance of truth and was not readily proved. dn this case the young man instead of turning to this girl for sympathy actually learned to dislike her for tell- ing him about the girl for Whom he cared #0 much, He left the town in which they lived, It was not wntll youre after that he learned the truth. ‘The girl who told the talachood during these years suffered for her epiteful statements and she was a * erann the balance of her life. + She lived to sce the other two really happy and she was shut out of their lives forever, I know a man who, in order to keep a friend of his from going into a promising partnership, told some of his friend's faults to the prospec- tive partner; in fact, he magnified them, and to such an extent that the partnership did not materialize, He afterward \said the reason of his act was that he loved his: friend so much be couldn't bear to see him leave and get into new associations; also that he might perhaps lose his REPAIRING A DAMAGED WING WHILE FLYING. raised in & small som- wn, there was ltt to in- won a commis: pointed an on and he waa ap- Instructor of acrobatics, of the place One day while fying at a high alti- comradeship. He lost his friend as s and fearlessness tude an accident to the wirg of the @ consequence, and his’ own self-re- s death at the age of plane demanded sudden attention and spect to the amuizament of his Tellow flyer, Locklear crawlea@ out of the fuselage his career. % the wing to the damaged source of part. This he readily repaired and tho then returned to his seat and — Until his recent advent in the mov- ies his stunts had failed to brn the fmancial reward they deserved, but All of these so-called acts of love are selfish at best. The thing you love you never will injure, no mat- ter how little dt cost. It is because somewhere, somehow, a spirit of spite has entered and taken the pace of love, ; The greatest proof of love 1s to ‘0 his » town in 1910 dec nat time h derived fast motoreyc rom tho shear joy of doing them was to * ‘vans ‘i er thi a Dau the two Locklear remuneration enoush. ; NORMAN “SELBY o BONA HEIN etve It up rathey t) an to give it pain, to follow aviat Flying with him or standine on “Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘ SELBY @ shen Geitene America’s entry into the ¢ the ground with him while prepara- 6) oa hee Wabsuchar Ob aS offered the apportun tone Ww mate for one of nia COT, 1G ean World) ¢ Now York UPID, Love’ lone seamed utterly eagerly w ong chanee he was yous to the Referee, has count- Kid McCoy’s Matrimonial Record REPAIRED WING AT HIGH ALTI- tiking perhaps the last, ed nine on Kid MoCoy. But . TUDE. passing of this youth suggests he's not out yet! ‘he Great Event. The Bride. [ His ekill in handling a “s soon other strange tales that dwarf the The most married man in the 1894 Lottie Piebler. 3 Bik : g {magination of a Jules Verne. The yar we a: 1897 Charlotte Smith yarns of G. A. Henty and numerous Whole work—iorobably—ie ebout to 1897 Mra, Julia Woodruff Crossélman. 1900 — ; 7] other writers of boyw fiction pale De sued for divorce, dovonding = 1901 Mra. Julla Woodruft Crosselman. 1901 ; into nsignificapee compared with statement in Los Angeles by the cur- Ae alan gos Miss Evelyn Conway | tho’ authentic "waventures of "the rent tre. MeCoy, or, more. properly, Mrs, June Woodrutt Crosgeima i902 as te fn American youth in the alr, = oe aoe n | Riding a “Scooter’’ || “‘vrapaniy’one of she most unique MP Norman Selby. She was Dag: Mis, Estelle Ellis. 1910 A Healey eee hyn gee Re mar Dahlgren, @ nineteen-year-old Mrs, Edna Valentine Hein, 1917 on Fifth Avenue on the girl of his heart was that of a dancer and movie actress, and only Dagmar Dahigren. 1920 last spring became’ cither the ninth or the seventh bride of the Kid, ac- young flying officer during ‘the war. Jent oocurred in a town ad- Southern flying fleld. It was siiry to plunge the machine down given di and then pull back on the "stick," which causes the plane to turn oy Finding himself in control the youthful, novice became suddenly confused, threw the ship on its back and in that position shot for the curth far below, Bertaud frantically motioned to the hewlldered Ind to re~ lnese the “ but the horrifid cundidate only held the tighter, mean- while the intervening space between es and sure death was do- ing home any more,"\re- marked Mrs, Jarr, “although it 49 my opinion that his mother cends him mone “He's the nasty Uttle mport who wore the purple silk socks, isn't he?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Oh, well, boys will be boys," mtd Mra, Jarr nd loafers will be loafors,” mid Mr, Jarr, “Are they any different aa loafers because they wear different clothes? ‘The loafar in the Joana pants ‘and calico whirt la no wore than the whiftioen incompetent in creased trousors and purple socks,” “Well, Claude Hiokett plays the plano beautifully,” ‘sald Mra, Jar, “You shouldn't be too hard on the Hie wool fagemen faster and taster, until they ‘were bit Doc's Poy aaiue snes enero 4 fow himdred feet from toh ground, fime to nocept any emall-payinig posts when Bertaud waa enabled to right to the falling machine and make a safe i'm sorry I oan't got Mr, Claude ald Mr, ia: HICKETT {sn't liv- The instructor feared to snatch his own control, as under the dual sys- tem it might break the controls and thus partticipate them all the sooner to certain denth, Down they came, Evelyn Conway go O Miss | the distinction of being the first to appear on Fifth Avenue rid- landing. ter,” which hae taken Hickett a nice position,” Wkotdnd “and the American beaches ° With Locklear gone thera will Jars "If I cowid Gnd one lke that I'd and summer resorts by storm. It | doubtie: be hundreds of flying a na bloyole and a motor- the engine in the rear youths who will eagerly reach for hig mantic, Neither money mor fame r - “It will never kill his won,” sald Mr, Jarr. “You shouldn't criticise the boy,” seid Mra, Jurr, “we are all different {n this world, His 1» the artigtlc tem- peramént,” ‘Mine's the artistic teniperament, too!" gnorted Mr, Jarr, “Well, you needn't get mad about iti" wuld Mra, Jarr, sharply. "Gee whinl Herd we go again cried Mr, Jarr, "“Wihat do you men- tion the Hicketts to me for? What difference is it to me if Claude Hickett is a kidgioved joafer? I've got troubles of my own! fio, for good- neas' gaice, cut them out!” And then Mra, Jarr began to ory, “T didn’t mean you shouldn't ve whatever mine you want,” wid Mr, Jarr oo ly, "ET didn't moan ‘out them ont! that way, wimply meant «top tiking “Wan t talline wbervt them?” aalod “Waal stanumercd Me, Mea, tary, Jagr oiisiee “Al Vineeatal vows are ait yous — ee *h ewe 4 divorce me, ‘The second time she did divorce me, and got $500 @ month all mony, #0 | remarried her, The lust time ‘I divorced her, She preferred one of my friends, That time it took,” “The fair Jults left MeCoy with Ralph Thompson, a Yale graduate ana Schenectady millionaire, who had lived at McCoy's training camp and iad been “built up" by the ex-prize fighter, ‘The eloping pair took @ steamer for Japan and cireled the globe, After the Kid procured hia divorce, his wife No, 3, 4, and 6 mar~ ried Thompson in New Haven in 1003, he divorced him several years later, he went to Bouth America and in 1012 she became the wife of George A, Wheelock, retired milllon- aire bookmaker and ex-President of the Metropolitan Turf Assoalation, It ia revorded im the puhlie prints thet one Indianola Amol, ay natn waa married to tho Kid of long ahtor IN final soyarnes of eonjnypiy rola. Hona with Juba, and thag Indiuaala, Pigined an pAniimant jn Fyevicenes, We Te th 1004, about @ pour aftay Mont! hen t ted muy dame aad a of the young Lieutenant to Coding to whether you count the day, married the next Wednesday, I physical oulture place at Saratoga,” hike hie “ehip" un every morning for Woman he miunried three times as had’ only about $300 at the time, We chronicles the Kid, "Ed Ellis, ‘@ a test flight and include a ride by the Shree brides or one. Now she with this tall, good-looking, curly- decided to go to Cincinnati and do wealthy young Yale man, was one of lady's house as part of hia itinerary. SD&TEeSs desertion and non-support, headed,’ eminently likable prize shopping. When we got back my patients and pupils, I met his fi~ He had been enutioned by many of *88erting that one month after lead- fighter, who didn't hesitate to fight 8 broke, Later I prevailed on ancee, Miss Lillian Estelle Earl at ta. tat ial wae aang ing her on his well-trodden path to for hia country? He put on the khaki Lottie to go West and divorce me, the time They were married later, an unnecessary risk. One day, t@ alter, Mr. Selby left for parts in New York's Tist Regiment, back Next on the Mist, according to the In 1903 Hilla died. Tis widow and I however, ae he was gliding ‘by the bast and has not been seen by her in 1916, and went to the Mexican published records, ts Charlotte Smith, were trendly tor a jong time. We Poung moman's home, nia motor subs. SRCE border. whom the Kid married in St. Louls were married an 1905, “We wore happy denly went " and he plunged Kid MeCoy, once welterweight “The ladies are all so charming |p 1497, the divoree coming the #aIn® for gibout three years; then we pamt- with a crash inte the second story Champion of the world, seems to be nowadays a man soon develops that year, Aft ame what has been ed. Im 1910 dhe got her divarce,” Whi of his sweethearts room, He !%® matrimonial champion to-day. modern disease, elastic heart,” he termed ‘9 matrimonial’ maa- ‘This marringe resembied that of Tee ARaLTHOR thoy found sins Where is Lillian Russell, where laughingly told The World just afte o—hia trilogy. ‘The heroine waa the priee fighter hero of Bernard AVIATORS GET THEIR OWN De Wolf Hopper, where even the late hig next to the last wife divorced a dashing brunette, Julla Woodruff Shaw's clever novel, “Cashel Byron's s Nat Goodwin, in a ring match—a him. ‘ swank Profeasion.” Cashel wod beautiful THRILLS, TOO. wedding ring match—with that In And at that time he gave an in- She waa in the ect of divorcing Lydia Carew, with an income of Loyd Bertaud, an instructor of acro- Veterate husband, the Kid? Not even teresting resume of some of his her first husband, William Crossel-~ £40,000 @ year, Mrs. Ellie's first hatics, missed a sudden conclusion of that first famous marrying man, King matrimonial history: man, when we met,” the Kid re- husband was the eon of John Bilis his career one day while attempting Henry VII, is in the same class, He “I committed marriage first in called, pensively, "It was lke this: whd founded tha locomotive works to teach a candidate the art of loop- Only had sik spouses, whereas there Ohio, at Middletown, in 1894," he | was showing in Brooklyn with the at Schenectady, Y., and her for- ie a tanto, are seven American women all mem- said, Her name was Lottie Pichler ‘Pacific Mail’ troupe, and waa coming tune at the time of her marringe to 5 the custom for the instructor DEr# of the McCoy Hymeneal Club. | and she worked in a millinery shop, to Now York on 4 car late one night the. Kid was ost'mated as betweon to attain an altitude of 3,000 or 4,000 _Why didn't matrimony ever “take” It was like this: Met her on Thurs- when two toughs started to beat up $5,000,000 and $7,000,000, feet before allowing the novice to take + the orew. I stepped in and finished His noxt wife alto came from an the control. There is a dual control —o— ° lt. The fair Julla was on the car. atmosphere of wealth, She was system which gives the instructor in You know how tt i#—-hero of the occa- Edna Valentine, daughter of the stant command of the plane should Wine @rr (2) Q sion and all that kind of stuff, e#- millionaire hoad of an {mporting firm the novice become unable to right 4 pecially with Julla, Well, we got our who was called "the Honduran Bertaud having reached an altiiude BrRoy L. LGE 1) divorces about that time and so we King.” She had been the wife of of 8,000 feet, ordered the candidate to e je were married, You know, we were Iva Willard Hein, former Consul~ loop the ship and relinguished the Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishiog CB, (The New York Evening World). married three times, And divorced General of Honduras to thia city, Bhe control, In order. to loop it is always Overwork killed him, you know.” threy times! ‘Tho first thme I let her divorced her husband, naming | #ix- co-respondents, Ho named five in a counter-sult, and one of them was Norman Selby, the Kid, Hein tes- tied that one evening while dining at a Broadway restaurant he had left the table and that when he came back McCoy was sitting in his place, although he swore his wife had not known him up to that time, “We were very happy together,” said the Kid, in referring to hie marriage with Mra, Hein, “until 1916, when wo disugreed and she obtained 8 divoroe,” fix—count ‘am, aix—-women had said, “Bo long, Kid!" Amd, no later than 1917, he said, “It's never again for me, As for matri- mony T'm #0 afraid of it that 1 am literally soared by wompn—as afraid of them as a slacker js of way.” Yot jast spring the Kid's ermnt fancy lightly turned t9 thoughts of love— qnd 4 & ninth bent in the ping Tredding) con't forwet that ane of sia former wins ye venenen _ the dhoved for phish she she will a Kid a oul vaty forty-seven, Jack Barrymore, Stage Lover De Luxe, Won Society Poetess Of Passion, Despite Hurdles Obstacles. ' Chasm Between Broadway and 5th Av Insurance Policy Against Matrimony. Unhappy First Marriages on Both Sides. By Marguerite Dean. 1980, by ‘The Frew Pubithing Ca, (The New York Breming World), Cooyriat. UIRDLY the most remarkable summer romance is that revealed by the recently announced marriage of John Barrymore, Broadway's greatest actor of the younger generation 4 orf AD AA coal Nee =] and most irresistible man, and Mra, Inco OF TIRLS. JOm BARRYMORE Blanche beauty, The novelist of roses and raptures and ber summer ginl readers could not, between them, have constructed “ fictional love affalr more appealing to thelr sense of fitness than this real Jife union of two artints—actor and poet--of a radiantly charming young woman and a young man whose later success in serious roles has not dlotted out the memory of the days when he was the matinee tol of thousands of girlish hearts. For that matter, hie loye-making in “The Jest” iast winter made women eatoh thelr breath and lean forward in their peats for its thrilling tenso- ness and power, : The romanticn will be all the surer that. the new Mrs, Barrymore—whom Paul Helleu once called “the most beautiful woman in America"—was predestined to marry her Jack when the aforesaid romantica con~- sider all the obstacles eurmounted by the pair. Why, first of all, and probably alone among men, | Jack Barrymore onceswas bound by @ $50,000 inenrance pofley, issued by London Lloyds, not to marry any- body! It was during the run of ‘The For- tune Hunter” that Jack's managers took this method of protecting their matinee idol against matrimony— and themsclyes against consequent shrinkage in box-office receipts from adoring young things who are sup- posed to turn up their pert noses at "old married men." Even in those daye—ten years ago this summer— Jack Barrymore had the reputation of being one of the most sought after —and susceptible—young men in America. He had been engaged or reported to bo engaged nearly adozen times, He wan the youthful sweetheart of Evelyn Nesbit, later the wife of Harry Thaw, Others who were the recipienta of his attentions were Bonnle Maginn, the dancer; Vivian Hiackburn, beautiful show girl and the original of the fenotng. girl post~ wre; Lotta Faust, Elete Janis, Ida Moorhead Thomas, society's Conquest, Grace Lane, a Chicago beauty; Sallie Fisher, his leading wo- man'in "A Stubborn Cinderella,” and Hazel Allen. His dressing room was swamped with mash notes and flow~ ers from feminine adorers, And that heavily ineured heart of hiv was lost the same summer the policy waa taken out, For his en- gagement was announced to a pretty elghteen-year-old New York society «irl, Miss Katherine Corrl Harr Despite the opposition of Miss Har- ris's father she became Mra, Barry- more a few months after meeting the actor, Later, she appeared with him in “Believe Me, Xantippe.” Ap- parently the marriage was happy— for seven years, Then little Mra, Barrymore quietly obtained @ Call- fornia divoroe for dowertion, A Panis divorce for incompatibility more recently ended the first romance of Jack ‘a new wife, She was originally Blanche Ovirichs, daughter of My. and Mre. Charfes Oclrichs, pnd her former ‘husband, Leonwd Moorhead Thomas, ts ® wealthy elubman and was at one time of the American Legation “ he, like Jack Baaryinore, wae married in 1910. She has “Poetess of Passion” and greatest | her after the divorte, Leonard M. © Th 8 jr, and Robin May Thomas, Tie fofmer Mra. Thomas was ond of the most popular hosteusee at New York and Newport. But four years ago she published a first volume of “Miscellancous Poems’ which at tracted wide attention and last year came & second volume. Highly emo- tional verses made up the content of both books, and many of the poem# expressed the shadows, disifiuaions and deapairs of love long before there > Was any public intimation of the authors domestic infeltelty, Now, after the lapsing of an anti- matrimonial insurance policy, after two divorces, after the bridging of the alleged so-called social chasm betwoen Ifth Avenue and Broadway, wo temperaments are to one, Will they? ae. And this is John Barrymore's phils) osophy of marriage,.as he once ¢x- Pounded # to The Evening World: “A true sporting spirit is indlepens- abio to a happy marrige. When T } meet the right girl I will ask and, if she will have me, marry ber and do my best to make her happy. The married sportsman does not be- eve that bis wife is to forsake hor old friends and devote iherself ex- olueively to bin, He knows that sha requines friends and amusements fuss as much a she did before marriagy. “The aportaman is not susplooue and jealous. To him his wite is a fair, equa, honorable partner, and he relies wpon her to do her best.4a every emergency of life. He trusts her with her former wen friends and does not think It @ sin to bave her sit down at Juncheon or go to the theatre with another man. The mar ned xportsman will Not nae or scold: “To sum it all up, the husband with the sporting spirit will give Tis wife ' mental, financial and goclal freedom, Iverything I've said goes for the wife as well, but of course she has much hewler job before her. The otvilieed woman Ja pretty nearly pers fect, while the best man, com) with ther, is only a rough-neckeg en ee mn ee ag Rene em eee