BABY LEFT BY WILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19836, 8 July 1926, Page 6

BABY LEFT BY WILL.

NAME KEPT SECRET. ADOPTED BY AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER. The late Jack Herndon, the famous American writer, was divorced from his first wife and married a second a few months later. That his oldest daughter. Joan, has had a similar double matrimonial experience is disclosed ly a recent San Francisco newspaper report, which records that she has just had a three-week-old baby left to her by will. An element of mystery appears to enshroud the affair. When Miss Joan London Malamuth was seen at her home, she said that the name of the mother of the baby would never be revealed by her. “She was a claso and dear friend of mine," Mrs Malamuth said, “but the understanding Is that never In this world Is It to bo made public whose child it is.” Friends of Mrs Malamuth said they understood that the child’s mother died when the baby was born. Before the baby’s birth the mother arranged that, in the ovent of her death, Mrs Malamuth was to take the infant and adopt it. “1 am happy to undertake the task of being the child’s adopted mother," Mrs Malamuth said to the interviewer. “ The baby is now in the care of her grandmother, but I am going to adopt her immediately.’’ Mrs Malamuth has a boy of her own who la now four and a-hnlf years old. Mis father is Park Abbott, magazine writer, whom she divorced in 102-1 in Oakland on the ground of cruelty. Ono of the reasons tor the divorce, also, was that tho tact that Abbott refused to allow his wlfo to use her father's name in her career ac a writer. Tho wreckage of her first marriage did not turn London's daughter agnlnat matrimony, however, for last December aim married Charles Malamuth, also a magazine writer.