Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 7 | Honey Johnson Hotly Denies 'Engagement' to David Mdivani

Names Linked in Wedding Yarn a . i - t n-W v V fl l ; : i; i.Y k I jtm ti J - i r . : i 'A l "HONEY" JOHNSON AND PRINCE DAVID MDIVANI She said, "Ridiculous!". . .Papa said, "Preposterous!" Honey Johnson Hotly Denies 'Engagement' to David Mdivani NEW YORK, Aug. 1 lt Muriel (Honey) Johnson, blond beauty of Bronxville, N. Y., spoke her mind todsy on those cabled t reports she was going to marry David, last of the marrying Mdivanis. So did Papa Johnson. Rn riiri .leiLqe l.ivermore .Tr. Honey said: "Ridiculous!" Papa Johnson said: "Preposterous!" "Preposter-ous!" Jesse Jr. said: "He went nuts over her." They ill that Is. all except I Mdivani, who was left behind in Venice, where the romance, real 1 or fancied, blossomed came back ' on the Italian liner Conte dl Savoia. , Johnson denied the engagement I rumors forcefully. His daughter followed suit. Then along came Livermore, who had gone to Paris and Venice from Hollywood with Mdivani and introduced the couple cou-ple That was five months ago, some time after Livermore had recovered recov-ered from an accidental gunshot wound inflicted by his mother. Livermore was speaking sbout the "romance" today when his mother, Mrs. Jesse L. Livermore, sppeared on the scene. A lot of people were talking by that time and young Livermore tried to simplify everything by explaining. It appeared that before be-fore he introduced David and Honey he spoke in this wiss to David: They havs a daughter you'll go nuts over. "And be did go nuts over her. I could marry her myself in a minute, if I wanted to." - He was rattling along In this vein when Honey broke in: "All of this is ridiculous. They always tie me up with every man I meet. I had several dances with Mdivani and that's all there is to it." Livermore, raising his voice, was heard again. He aaid he believed be-lieved Honey still favored the Georgian prince, who was ones married to Mae Murray of tha movies. But he added, it was his considered Judgment the Johnson family didn't like the idea. That appeared to be good Judgment Judg-ment when Johnson broks In: "The whole thing is preposterous. preposter-ous. She Just danced with him a ! few times." 1 Livermore said he was going to get a job in Wall street with his fsther. who used to be known as "ths boy plunger" in the stock market Ganna Walska Tells 5th Wedding Plans LONDON, Aug. 1 (UP) Ganna i Walska, four times married concert singer, will be wed again, this time to Harry tirindell-Matthews, a pioneer pio-neer in the British radio-telephone industry and inventor of a "death I ray" which was sold in the United States, it was announced today.