The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 30

SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 5 1930 THE OGDEN STANDARD -EXAMINEE SA's 66 'Y ff A 'A "'A' IS A ff" IMP Ml V-r Rich Nelson Morris ants His Actress-Bride 1 to Stop Acting- Arid Why Sie Won I I -v vs'T It tened I I i if 1 1 Jill Rill 1 II 1 i i 1 1 fi 1 1 1 ijii gl Scs i mil I ill sj I II Is I jl fill is The Beautiful Jane Aubert Found Then the public laughed Center of a Hectic Entanglement Husband the Theatre Managers and Lawyers Quarreling Over Whether She Should Choose WHEN wealthy Nelson opposition to his stge career! recently led to divorce courts Paris was amaze New York and Chicago were oily unused Gay Paris is quite used to strange marital entanglements But it seldom beholds the spectacle of an irate hps band virtually ordering his wife to off the i stage -or out of my life!" Now it happens that Paris has! a great pride in the stage Together with the cafes it constitutes jhe center of the French bright night life And wife Jne Aubert has been one of the most career Consider him in 191 when he was on the thresohld of his career! At the age of only 24 he become chairman of the board of directors off Morris Co one of the of the meat packing houses of Chicago A great family and business tradition was behind him I His grandfather after whom young The success magazines of course devoted much attention to -him Here was a mere stripling of a boy in command of a gigantic business Every word young Nelson uttered was bound to be listened to even as Chicago had listened to and heeded the words of his grandfather But two years later young Nelson 5 i 0 v-v-'-f fe 1 r-q til Ull Nelson was named had founded the Morris powerful wealthy and the pet was in astonishment The newspapers ridiculed the idea of a 26-year-old-boy telling working men of the country how to spend in a year what he probably spent in a month! The war was in progress The selective draft wa3 being put into execution Nelson Morris claimed exemption from the draft True he was only 26 true-he was unmarried and was but he claimed he was necessary to a vital organization Morris Co It seemed for a time that his claim would be granted But suddenly he went to Washington in the Corps as a The Chicago local draft board decided that if company He had begun hisa business career at a wage of $5 a month in Chicago and had forged his way to a A 1 A 1 1 1 i I I fiS il: tllll 1 1 1 1 1 1 Bl I I tl 11 beautiful and most prominent figures point where he was one of the power on the Parisian stage ful dominant financial figures of thel On the other hand Mr Morris Was middle indeed of the entire) until recently i a prominent Chicago country Then followed old 8ar IbIi i of society made a most astonishing statement The packing employes were fighting for higher wages and the case was arbitrated by the Wage Arbitration Board of Chicago Young Morris was called to testify He declared that $1000 a year was higher than necessary for a family of five to live When a budget of an average family was shown him he was quoted as saying that carfare for children going to school was unnecessary and that attendance at a theatre three times a year was sufficient entertainment Also he thought $20 a year each to clothe three children was too much Chicago listened the nation lis IP 1 -I I i i son Edward! who he 1 in line the power! ful business or! ganization i i welded into shape Then young Nelson came in to control! mi ii i 1 1 1 1 'll 1 1 Siil II Pm I 8 i 1 1 1 1 ill I if i 1 i PIS 54 i i A 40 meat packer lie was head of the i famous meat packing firm of Morris Co hefore it was merged with Armour Col So when he attempted to bar his wife from the stage evefi after she had instituted divorce proceedings the Parisians gasped They see why a prominent meat packer should snub a marital affiliation with a prominent actress And perhaps they exulted when Miss Aubert took her husband at his word and decided to go out of his life rafther than leave the stage As matters stand now Morris must pay his1 wife $1000 a month until a Versailles court renders a decision in his divorce suit He tried to compel the i famous Palace Theatre management to Jane from the leading role of But Miss Aubert informed her husband Blie intended to play the part at all costs In Chicago and New York the story of Nelson Morris and of his marrital troubles is too well known to artistic circles she also enjoyed a high reputation 1 Her beauty so attracted the famous French artist Jacques Weisman that he painted a portrait of the great Parisian It was displayed) at the Salon des Artistes Francaise and created considerable much of which was of a compliment ary nature The most exclusive circles of Pari -social literary artistic and theatric i welcomed her She was honored' not only for her beauty but for her art as an actress The stage was he? life it had brought her fame and the- applause the most sophisticated capital in Europe i- And then along came Nelson Morris! Mr Morris too was welcomed into' the exclusive circles and he met Miss Aubert After a whirlwind courtship they were married in Paris in 1928 It was then that Paris began to observe with astonishment the effort -of-Mr Morris to dissuade the famous actress from va stage career They were married only a month when the opposition to her life as an actress led them into the courts Paris was surprised because It could not understand why Mr Morris should expect one of the stars of the stage to throw aside her career just because she was married And Mr Morris on the other hand 6ee why she should continue on the stage: when he was prepared to give her wealth and luxury and position i The marital difficulties of the two reached this climax when Nelson M-orris insisted upon being a pas- senger aboard the Graf Zeppelin Opposition arose from certain quarters but in the end he won out and took the trip It afforded Jane Aubert however a chance to charge him with desertion Only recently she began to appear in the leading role of Her husband continued to object strenuously but there was nothing be could do about it- Paris was demanding Jane Aubert When finally tht irate husband delivered his ultimatum of or the the actress went into a Paris court and sought a divorce The local court however refused to grant a decree holding that Jane was a resident of Chicago' I Thi3 appeared to be something of a victory for Nelson Morris But tht actress had no intention of surrendering so easily She went before a Versailles tribunal which overruled th lower court Sho was granted the temporary alimony of $1000 a month pending' the final decision of the courts Even so she did not let these troubles Interfere with her career She continued on the stage As a last resort Morris is said to have sent his attorney to the Palace Theatre to order the management to forbid his wife to appear in the play Miss Aubert has reiterated her fn- tention of sticking to the if she is getting $1000 a month So Paris looked on while Morris and Miss Aubert continued to present in the courts their amazing domestic per formance The case was particularly intriguing because presented the modern question of whether a woman should devote her time to thahome or to a career There are many persons to sympathize with the husband and the wife The friends might argue that a wife sHould have no interests outside the home And there are others who will insist that a married Yeoman is entitled to a career a yw fi Hi Palace Tlicatre Paris One of the Most Celebrated Amusement Places on the Faubourg -Where Jane Aubert Starred in Her Latest Musical While Her Husband Tried to Keep Her Off i the Stage I 5 -tit Wealthy Chicago Nelson Morris Youth Whose Demand That His Wife a Famous Actress Choose Between Him and jtlio Tbeatrei Stirred AJI i Paris astonishment i A 4S 4 i i 'f'A V- ft his business could get along without him while he was in Washington it could do so while he was in France So he was recalled and placed in the draft Morris went to Camp Grant at Rockford 111 as a private He was being trained as all recruits were when suddenly he was transferred to Washington as a Again there were protests and Morris rejoined the army as a private With the end of the war came a slump in the meat packing industry Big organizations lost heavily in 1923 through foreign exchange and inventories The crisis threatened the stability of other institutions in the middle west The Morris Company was merged with Armour Co and Nelson Morris ceased being the head of a great organization He then turned to the gayeties of Paris and the luxuries of life It was in Paris that be met! the pretty Jane i She was a star of the Casino de Paris and had made quite a name for herself in French motion pictures She was the darling of the cafes and of theatrical peonlQ' generally In A '4 y- cause 1 quite sq much But it did cause titters- along Park Avenue aswell as along the of the midjdle western metropolis 1 Society had not forgotten that Jane Aubert was very perturbed" Jwhen tier husband insisted upon being a passenger on the Graf Zeppelin during its round-the-world trip They whispered then that the famous romance' was "going up in the air with the And In the stockyards of Chicago it had not beeni forgotten that Mortis once declared a working man should be able to support a family of five children on $1000 a year That i as more than 10 years ago when Mr Morris was a much younger man and had no idea that he would one day be ordered by the pourts to pay $1(00 a month to his wife There were many who said back before the days of the war that yoiing Nelson Morris was destined for a great i A-A i 1 1 i iV iWinWWrtWi 4 A Portrait of Jane Aubert by the Famous French Painter Jacques Weismann Wliich Won High Praise When Displayed at tlie Salon des Artistes Francais 1 -CV rnr.