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Show Triangle Becomes Quadrangle; Jarrett Airs Marital Woes Br FREDERICK C. OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 3 (UP) The eternal triangle, which has earned all concerned in this tale many a dollar during their stage careers, turned into a quadrangle unique even in Hollywood annals here today when Art Jarrett sued Eleanor Holm for divorce. presumably buying her bubble water. wa-ter. Jarrett Airs Woes 2. Miss Holm, by insisting on drinking champsgne when she should have been on a diet of milk, training for the Olympic games last year, humiliated him and prevented I him from getting work on the radio. S. Last December Miss Holm stayed away from home all night. ! phoning him next morning to ask if he had her fur coat, j 4 He didn't. He asked where she twas and she said she didn't remember remem-ber and upshot that she bought a new coat, which cost Jarrett J1SO0. ' I Therefore. Jarrett said, he want-led want-led a divorce. Hr-'s waiting for it in Beverly Hills Miss Brice is room-ling room-ling near by with Beatrice Lillie and Sophie Tucker and saying nothing. Bose and Miss Holm are doing their waiting In New York and saying plenty, while the elephants, ele-phants, which seem to be at the bottom bot-tom of this Hollywood drama of tangled lives, are in winter quarters, quar-ters, munching (lay. He's her band leading husband. She's the champagne drinking swimming champ who owns one of the most beautiful figures in America Amer-ica and an undying love for Billy Rose.' He's the half-pint sised producer pro-ducer of Gargantuan stage productions, produc-tions, which usually include elephants, ele-phants, and is the husbsnd of Fanny Brice. Hollywood was going its peaceful way, Jarrett was lesding ris band and Fanny Brice was doing awkward awk-ward dances in front of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cameras a coupe of weeks ago when Rose announced that he was going to marry Jar-rett'i Jar-rett'i wife! I Fanny Surprised ' This came as something of a shock to Miss Brice. the comedienne, come-dienne, whose first husband was the late Nicky AruStein, about whom she sang the still famous song. "Mon Homme" My Man. She said ahe was surprised. She said she didn't know Rose had In- tended to give her the marital gate. Rose said be was certain Miaa Brice would divorce him, because of the elephants, if nothing else. A faint aroma of these beasts usually clung to him, he said, making a thoroughly thorough-ly unsatisfactory companion. Miss Holm, posing her 114 well placed pounds beside him fjr benefit of the aewa cameras, aald ahe loved him. elephants and all. That left Jarrett without aaying la -thing, until he'd hired Lawyer 'Karl W Marks ta do the talking in sunerior court. . Ti)rn he said this: 1. "A man o her than the plaintiff" plain-tiff" has be:n associating conntant-jly conntant-jly with his wife, riding across the country in airplanes with her and |