Evening star. [volume], January 17, 1937, Page A-8, Image 8

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Werner Janssen’s Ardent
Courtship Bared in Fil
ing Paper.
B? 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
harmonic.
, Distressed because her second ro
mance had become public. Miss Hard
ing indicated the wedding would be
soon, but would not say when or where.
Che now is at Blackpool, one-night
Stand in her tour of English provincial
theaters with a revival of Bernard
Chaw's “Candida.”
Janssen, who visited her in Liver- I
pool earlier this week, secluded himself
In the country, having completed a
symphonic engagement in London. '
■ mention* 10 wen hlM.
News of the couple's engagement be
came known with their filing of in- j
tent to wed at a London registry
office.
"I had hoped to keep it quiet until I
•fter 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.
She came here last Spring after a
flight from Hollywood and through
Canada to take her daughter outside
the legal jurisdiction of American
courts, from which Bannister had ob- 1
tained an order permitting him to see i
the child "at all reasonable times." i
She has made several English pictures
during the last year.
Miss Harding has won permission |
from Hollywood courts to keep her
daughter Jane In England until May,;
when she plans to return to Hollywood.
Janssen will accompany her, it was
aaid'here.
Miss Hardin? Is 34, Janssen 37. j
Miss Hardin? and Bannister were di- J
vorced in 1934. Janssen's first mar
riage ended in divorce last December. !
Wins New York Laurels.
Janssen was the first native New
Yorker to conduct the New York Phil- i
harmonic. He was guest director the
aeason of 1935, and departed that ]
Spring for appearances in Europe,
where he first won acclaim five years
before.
The actor, George M. Cohan, laugh
ingly lays claim to the credit for Jan
ssen's success in his art—Janssen's
father had wanted him to go into the
hofbrau business.
‘Til always claim personal responsi
bility for Werner's success,” Cohan
•aid once. "I’ll hold 'til my dying i
Dobbin Registers Fright
This horse, ivhich 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.
lay that Werner became a musician
aecause his dad made him practice the
aiano all day to keep me awake, just
to get even with me for playing all
night and keeping him awake.” The
two were neighbors in New York.
Janssen ran aw ay from home to con
tinue his pursuit of music. He played
in New York cabarets, bars and dance
halls to get money. Munching a
ioughnut, the story goes, he used to
sit in Central Park and study the
scores of symphonic compositions.
At 27 he combined jazz and the
classical motif in a symphonic poem,
‘New Year's Eve.” that was presented
ay the Philadelphia Symphony Or
chestra under Leopold Stokow'ski.
Three years later. 1930, he won
:he Frederic A. Juilliard fellowship
for musical composition from the
\merican Academy in Rome.
WEDDING LIKELY TOMORROW.
NEW YORK. January 16 OP).—Au
pist Janssen, jr., New York restaurant
I
manager, said tonight his brother
Werner, the composer and orchestra
conductor, and Ann Harding, actress,
plan to be married In London Monday.
The younger brother appeared to be
| the only one of the Janssen family
1 here who had known anything about
the romance.
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BARRYMORE GLUM
OVER DIVORCE SUIT
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 aet 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: “I told
you so.”
joarrymore natty reiusea lo 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
follow 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."
In her divorce complaint she asked
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 TavlQr
street, Chevy Chase. Md. Bennett, a
Department of Justice employe, has a
very complete woodworking shop as
a hobby.
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Kin of Admiral of Spanish
War Fame Carries on Un
relenting Fight. .
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 16.—Thirty
eight year* ago Commodore George
Dewey stood on the bridge of the
flagship Olympia in Manila Bay and
said: “You may Are when you are
ready, Gridley.”
Today another Dewey, a third
cousin of the naval hero, stands on
the fourteenth floor of the Woolworth
Building and *ays approximately the
same thing to his chief lieutenants
in another kind of warfare.
Instead of bombarding the Spanish
fleet, the present commander. Special
Prosecutor Thomas E. 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
among the enemy's ranks. They are
counted in terms of indictments and
prison sentences.
War on Three Fronts.
Warming to the fray after a alow
paced start, Dewey and his little army
of special agents opened fire on three
widely separated fronts las't week srd
prepared to move on a fourth Monday.
With characteristic suddenness, fo>
lowing: months of secret preparation,
his men smashed into the highly or
ganized Harlem policy racket Thurs
day night and came away with 70
prisoners, including one man. lie de
scribed as the co-ringleader and 19
••executives.”
The raids were carried out simul
taneously on 17 apartments after a
long study of the intricate system
under which the suspects rotated their
base of operations.
Dewey described the policy slip
game as a $50,000,000-a-year swindle
which took the nickles and dimes of
poor persons and helped make up one
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The most important prisoners taken
by the raiding party were Joe Ison, a
West Indian, who was described as a
co-leader of the ring, and Moe Wein
traub, a lawyer. Ison’s alleged
partner, Alexander Pompii, eluded the
net, but Dewey appeared confident he
had struck a body blow.
Ison and Wemtraub were held in
$50,000 and .$20,000 bail, respectively,
on charges of ‘'contriving a lottery,”
a felony. The others were held in
sums ranging from $15,000 and $1,000,
mostly as material witnesses.
Only the day before Dewey had
opened a drive against strong-arm
tactics in the electrical contracting in
dustry, In which his agents said a toll
of $10,000,000 a year was extorted
from the public through monopolistic
practices.
Emerging suddenly into the open
after 13 months of Investigation, his»
representatives subpoenaed the rec
ords of several labor and employer or
ganizations. «
Then, to round out his most di
versified week since Gov. Lehman told
him a year ago last July to clear up
the city's rackets, Dewey ordered the
arrest of four men on bakery rocket
eering charges.
1 On Monday he is due to appear in
Supreme Court, prepared to try nine
men on charges of levying tribute on
restaurant operators. One of the al
leged victims of this racket was Jack
Dempsey.
Lugubriously enough, the first vie- ,
tim of Dewey's widwely-heralded drive '
was an inconspicuous truck driver
who was charged with trying to work
a little $30 extortion racket all by
himself.
But from there he went on to
convict 28 loan sharks, and the un
derworld quit calling him a "Boy
Scout" when he trapped their No. 1
man. Charles (Lucky) Luciano, on
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