MARRIED SEVEN TIMES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 303, 23 December 1933, Page 11

MARRIED SEVEN TIMES

ACTRESS’ UNUSUAL RECORD. SAME HUSBAND THREE TIMES. Tallulah Bankhead’s actress sister Eugenia Bankhead, who has already been married six times, last month arrived in London for her seventh marriage. Her fiance is Kennedy McConnell, the 28-year-old son of Mr. James Irvine McConnell, of Milford, near Godaiming, Surrey, who was formerly a well-known Scottish colliery owner. Although Miss Bankhead has obtained six divorces, she describes her engagement to Mr. McConnell as being only the second romance in her life. “I married and divorced Morton Hoyt, son of a former United States Solicitor-General, three times,” she said to a reporter. Because She Loved Him. “That was because I loved him. He was the first man I really loved. Unfortunately, we did not seem able to get on very well together, but I think we were both in love with one another, and that is why we kept on getting married. The other men I married did not count for anything.” Besides Mr. Hoyt, Eugenia Bankhead’s previous husbands have been Howard Lee, an airman; Lawrence Butt, a college football star; and E. Dennis White. M hite was arrested within six weeks of the marriage on a charge of negotiating bogus cheques, and was sentenced to 90 days’ imprisonment.

Feodor Chaliapine. Feodor Chaliapine made his first gramophone record in 1902. An official of “His Master's Voice” Company went specially from London to Moscow, and tho records were made in one of the principal hotels. The baths of acid, necessary for the recording, were stored in a bedroom. Late one night, one of the baths burst and the acid slowly ate its way through the floor and dropped on the bedclothes of a guest in the room below. As soon as it reached his skin the whole hotel was roused by his cries! The Gramophone Company had to pay heavy damages. Chaliapine’s fine voice will bo heard in the film “Don Quixote,” the famous story of a country squire who lost himself in bygone days of chivalry. United Artists will release “Don Quixote.”