The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • Page 17

ill Woes of the Meat Packing Heirs With Their Pretty Actress Wives Fascinating Jean Aubert is on the stage again in spite of everything her wealthy husband, Nelson Morris, could do and both of young Michael J. P. Cudahy's romances with Hollywood beauties have come to sad ends Jeanne Aubert married Ndson Morns, but found the stage Was her real love. European laws helped young Moms block his wife's stage career so she came to America, where women are free. HICAGO meat packing heirs have more in common than canned sausage and dried beef.

Two of them. at least, seem to have the habit of falling in love with actresses, marrying them or doing their best to marry them, and after a while being deserted for the stage. It happened to young Michael J. P. Cudahy, son of the late John P.

Cudahy and grandson of the founder of the Cudahy Packing Company. He eventually married Muriel Evans, film actress, who decided that 13 months with Michael were enough. "Michael is a dear, dear boy," she said. "We are good friends, but So there was a divorce and Miss Evans went back to the stage. And Nelson Morris, the other millionaire meat packer, is having the same kind cf luck with his actress-wife.

He has been playing love-tag all over the world with Jeanne Aubert, the beautiful French actress whom he married. Miss Aubert loves the stage more than she loves the meat king. Morris decided to be old- fashioned about her double affection. He got out warrants forbidding her to appear in one show after another in Europe. In Europe a husband's word is law, too, so many of the stage managers rang down the curtain on their star.

Miss Aubert merely said "bologna," or something which meant the same thing, and got the lead in another show every time it happened. HE'S been running away from her husband's castles and jewels and millions. Now she's on Broadway, and there isn't much he can say to her, for this is America, the land of the free. Miss Aubert may be found delighting audiences each evening in "Princess Chaiming," an operetta recently imported from England. And she'll tell you that while she will always love luxuries; while she adores having a dozen and one extravagances; while she is quite aware of what she is giving up still there was nothing else for her to do.

She had flatly refused to leave the stage; she had led her rich husband a hopeless chase when he sought to stop her performance; and if she has to check up on her bank account a little more carefully today, she says: "I do not care. I am happy again. He has not bothered me for some time and I can go on with my work unhampered." The curtain rose in Paris on the Morris- Aubert romance. And it was as one-sided in the beginning as it seems to be at the end. Miss Aubert was playing at the Palace in Paris.

NE night a perfectly-groomed, vacation- seeking American came into the theater and took a scat in the first row. It was Nelson Morris, the millionaire from Chicago. Of course lots of other millionaires were sitting in the first row, too. They usually did. But the next night Morris returned.

And the third and fourth and fifth nights found him oresent. The same man sat in the same seat every night for a month! Mysterious presents started to come to Mile. Aubert's dressing room. Costly baskets of flowers and other gifts came without the name of the donor. It didn't take much Sherlock Holmes ability for Miss Aubert to suspect that the nightly theatergoer was connected with the presents.

She went right on dancing and singing, now and The show was about ready to start then lawyers appeared, and the manager dared not oppose the husband's will. This happened time after time Jeanne Aubert grew tired of it. then tossing him a half-professional, half-flirtatious wink across the stage. But he came to the theater 50 times before she even met him, according to Mile. Aubert.

All the theater was chatting about it. Th; ushers came to know the man by sight and to smile him to his seat The doorman and the manager and the other performers they all began to talk. Word went around that the man was one of "those veiy rich Americans." Finally they met. Morris wanted the actress to marry him right then and there. She told him that it was much too sudden.

But she could have mansions in the south of France, she could winter on the Riviera, he told her. She could have everything money could buy! Bracelets, rings, costly jewels of every type and wherever Miss Aubert appeared she would find her fabulously rich American, and he kept right on asking her to marry him. She came to America to play and he came home. She went back to Paris, to start an engagement the Moulin Rouge, and he decided that he'd rather be in Paris than any place else. EVEN months passed.

Then the actress consented to the marriage. The couple went to Morocco for their honeymoon and the bridegroom lavished castles and cars and yachts upon his bride. This life was a far cry from that the actress had known in childhood. Her family had struggled for every franc which came into the house. Mile.

Aubert wanted to go on the stage, but since she lacked experience she couldn't even get a tart as a chorus girl. She had to be an "extra," ready to go on the stage if someone else couldn't, and she made $6 a week. She was with the Varieties, but afterwhile she worked her way to a minor part and gradually received other offers until she was very well known. South Americans liked ner, so South America sent for, her to entertain them their homeland for four months. Then the Concert Myol brought her out and she was a hit of the season, singing a topical song, "Has Anybody Seen My Aunt?" London asked for her, and then she came back to Paris and the romance with the meat packing king started.

The new Mrs. Morris came back to Chicago to meet her husband's family. She insists that she was charmingly greeted, but within a few months she was back in Paris, announcing that she would bring action for divorce. Morris could have his millions. She would make her way on the stage free and untrammeled and independent of.

her husband's great wealth. UT the man who had headed a large American industry didn't intend to let one woman upset his plans. He followed. He got a retinue of lawyers to help him. In Europe a husband can remove his wife from the stage simply by telling the manager of his views.

Mile. Aubert, back in Paris, was assigned the lead in a French version of "Good News." Her husband hired lawyers and brought an injunction against the theater, restraining her from appearing there. That meant that she was through. She went to Italy and opened in Milan. And the same thing happened.

"And so," she relates, "I then Went to Belgium. And oh, I was so indignant. I was so angry. What was I to do? My career was being ruined. I could not turn without finding one of his lawyeis on my trail.

And it is so simple in Europe. You need merely say that ycu do not want Muriel Add Euanstn and young Cudahy. After months of married life, the screen called more loudly than domesticity. ND I am so happy and so grateful to this country. You don't know what it means for a woman to have a chance just an even chance! "It is really very nice of him to think so much of me and to be so attentive--I am flattered.

But, also, I am annoyed. It is over like that. It is ended." Young Michael Cudahy started his attempt to win an actress when he was 19, just four years ago. His mother. Mrs.

Edna Cudahy, had debated whether to bring Michael up in the country, away from temptation, or let him know the lure of a city. She decided that since wild oats are something like measles and have to be had. the sooner the better. She gave Michael an allowance and brought him to Hollywood. New Year's eve came.

Michael met his friend. Bobby O'Brien. They decided they would go call on Miss Marie Astaire, a Hollywood actress, whom Michael hadn't known very long. Sometime during the party the group ran out of original ideas. They wanted new diversions.

Someone suggested they have a wedding. That suited Michael. Miss Astaire 'liked the idea, too. So they started for Santa Ana. But the license clerk wasn't sympathetic.

Michael had added three years to his The inquisitive clerk wanted to know if he and his sister were twins. When Michael explained that they weren't and it wasn't any of the clerk's business, he discovered that it was. His own sister had applied for a license the week before and given the same age. Michael hesitated over his age and lost his cause at the Los Angeles courthouse, too. The party hurried your wife on the stage court and they will give you the order while the judge almost weeps.

go to any but think of me! What becomes of me? I go from one theater to another. The managers hear and they grow frightened. They do not want (o refuse me. They do not wish to get into trouble. And so husband of mine, he tries everything everything to stop me and have me come back.

But now, I am too angiy. And, besides, 1 am determined that my life is on the stage. 1 don't care for his money, or anyone's money. "So I go to Belgium and I am playing in Liege when, voila, here he is again, and here is another court summons. "It keeps going like this.

fiom country to country behind me wherever I turn. "It all seemed so hopeless. I couldn't see my way out. Which way could 1 1 be pan to Vent! on to Ventura, California, hoping for better luck this time. Nelson Moms appealed to Napoleon's laws to keep his wife in line.

Marie Astaire might have been Mrs. Cudahy but the police tool( charge of the bridegroom. Every night, for 50 nights the same man sat in a center scat in the first row. I am driven with lawyers (Copyilgit, 1930. by EvcryWeek Magazine--I'l intecl in U.

S. Then the two met. turn? What was left? Ah, they told me, in America it was different. There the woman could stand up and fight against her husband on equal grounds. 1 found a chance for an American engagement, and here I am.

Michael's mother, who had been put wise meantime, had been there ahead of them, a a Barbara was the next move. A sheriff arrested young Cudahy. at his mother's direction, evidently for trying to get a license when he was not old enough, but really to keep him out of matrimony. After a night in jail he was willing to go home and obey his mother. Besides, he saw Clara Bow soon after, and asked for an introduction.

After that, he was seen with her quite frequently. But pretty soon they weren't together any more. Clara had a career to think about. Michael had a mother to think about him. He didn't get his second actress, either.

Then along came Muriel Evans, another film actress. This time Mrs. Cudahy consented. Michael was 21 now. The wedding took place.

Miss Evans, whose real name wai Muriel Adel Evansen, was 18. But Michael J. P. Cudahy drove his automobile while intoxicated and his honeymoon was interrupted while he stood trial. It cost him $5000, too.

Last September, after 13 months of life with the meat packing scion. Miss Evans made up her mind that she preferred a stage career. She sail lots of nice things about Mike, though. That is another thing which the meat packing millionaires have in common. All of their actress loves admit their charm.

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