| Show y I Incubator B Baby by Known no n by Thousands s at St St. Louis Grows Gr Up to tb Find Dark Prediction T True s. s I 1 I Exposition A i I i iI SAS ANSAS CITY By NEA NEA Ser Ser- 7 Twenty three years ago ago a baby lay in one of the f b li t r at the St. St Louis Worlds World's far r sq ng restlessly behind the thet t ss gJ-ss walls of oLits its Ut little le coop t Many thousands of stopped C tir look ok at at- atit it during the course ot of the faIr And though always no one ever knew just how It started started- Ute the rumor or would buzz through the little groups in front ot of the incubator bator I y The baby's going to live 11 but Its It's always going to have bad luck luck-a l fortune tell r says so AN UNHAPPY LIFE Today J arian Marlan Brown the I young oung woman who spent the first six months of her life Ufe in that Incubator incubator In- In is ready to admit that the tort fortune ne idler was as right As a child she was unable to find much happiness She was the center center cen- cen ter ter of innumerable regal squabbles claimed by two forever being taken Into some laW court or other Other- to listen to attorneys wrangle wran- wran gle ov r who should have her And as as' as asa a a. a grown woman her efforts off of- of f forts for happiness have been b balked toot too rt t For Foi now only six weeks alter after F gIving birth to a baby Mrs Brown Is 15 going to court to seek a divorce from het husband Dewey Brown Marian Brown wa was born in a St. St Louis She was so frail suggested use of physicians ari Incubator an-Incubator incubator only as a means of postponing what they felt was thin death Another bab baby born In the same sameI I hospital at almost the same hour 0 likewIse was sickly It too was p an incubator at the Worlds World's fair baby died and with its death dea h there there- began to gather the clouds cloud ot of tragedy that have hung over most of the life of the other child Mrs Caroline Bleakley mother of one of the babies was told that iJ tL I jt was her child that had died The mother of 01 the other bab baby disappeared Some six months later Mr Ir and r Mrs Tames G. G Barcay of Moline visitIng the fair fell In love Incubator girl ani With th the little 1 arranged to adopt her They carf car car- f tIed out their plan and MarIan was R taken ken to their home 11 Some time later a nurse at the St ft Louis hospital where both 1 I had been born called on Mrs B ea leY She told Mrs Bleakley r that her baby had lived and th ih child that had died had been the thet t whose mother had n r ie began the long legal battles that overshadowed so much of MarYan Mat Ma- Ma t rt rYan n Browns Brown's life Ti Mrs was determined to A have her Th Barclays were equally equal equal- ly Jy determined rot not to rIve give her up 4 II Three times the child chUd was kid kid- I by one side or the he ther Several Sev- Sev eral private ate detectives detectives' went to for taking part in these kid kid- 11 s. Always there were legal C entanglements surrounding Marians Marian's childhood i Then at last Mrs Y and Mrs Irs Barclay met in an attorneys attorney's t office and became friends They agreed to settle all of their differ differ- f farian 1 was given Into the ther r care of Mrs Irs Bleakley a Topeka school chool teacher and Mrs Barclay c was permitted to visit her when when- e eer er- er she pleased MARRIED AT UNIVERSITY Marian farlan w went nt through h high school C and nud then enrolled in Washburn wit wit- 1 She wa a junior there when sheI she I t met and married Dewey BrownI Brown hat wa was was' a Year agot ago t And tow ow with her own baby only I Ix old she is going to court get a on divorce the grounds of 1 cc l Once again her venture for hap hap- q has failed Once again she i 15 Is back In the courts trying to see it the la law cant can't straighten out ut human hu- hu i man mIstakes I. I the Hie fortune teller w wa rIght 1 J In New York I i b 1 EW YORK YORK-Xo vIsitor t ts Manhattan Man Man- hatt hattan n should hould fail faU to peep In on the tt-r tt 1 st hectic twenty minutes s to be bem m found anywhere under the sun with exception perhaps of the stock f exchange during a market raidi raId Ji i This sight can be witnessed alost al- al ost any evening sImply by walk walk- ti- ti Ig to fourth Forty and Broadway L- L The time is S 8 to p. p m. m And the place Is Joe Leblang's ticket agency w Hero Here come all the last minute P combatants for bargaIn seats at th the Ld i theatres A bargain counter Is a quiet and peaceful place by con con- I J Out of the streets mill all the good folk who ho have made up their minds at the last minute Arms shoot out ut rIght and left and voices are areli li t. t raised to high pitch From hotels and clubs and apartments come phone calls and clerks who dart about like airplanes Money changes c. c with the rapi rapidity of Ugh lightning and Into bito outstretched hands are thrust t bits of paper that act as open sesame to Broadway theatre doors H Half tle crowd is hoping for a last j. j r minute nute bargain The names of productions pro pro- flash down upon scores of eyes eye arid and quIck decisions must be rode however wrong they may prove prove Its It's ts t's in f practically allover twenty minutes but durIng that time time-Oh b byl 1 e S S About About ten years ears ago or cr more lie he bobbed up tip in Hester street heart I i of the great East Side He Ha was a aIa Ia young young fellow singIng ballads But Dut ift l there was something In the way he sang Bang them them-no it was more th the rt f f fellow himself perhaps Anyway 1 within a 3 short time the whole town ff- ff seemed to hear about Tommy L t man He was singing over at Jim Jim- t. t my KellYs And for many a year r. r n he made Broadway travel through fri the East Side tenement lanes to tos s hear himL him I L About a year ago dropping In at th the Ambassador one evening an entertainer en- en to the ritzy hotel crowd st stepped forth It was Tommy Ly- Ly man c I Someone told me that he had gone abroad and made all Europe take notice This season its Us the Salon 0 Royal o jf JC you please A kid that once took them o er lo Hester street Well that's Now York rork It If youve you've tor b I J Jv v JA I LW I tI iii 1 F z- z I I I I j I s Marian Bleakley Brown j g got t. t something ing and and they eyer find it you'll travel far S S S Is the season eason between the hot days and the first snowfall when the upon lan hattan Buyers IS right And cv everyone every every- ry- ry one with amusement to sell begins to polish it up They bring with then them plenty of expense money and those with th the gOO is s t to sell the buyers loosen up on the expense roll The calls calls' go goforth forth to the bootleggers bootleggers boot boot- fOr good old stuff w stuff at- at ever that and Is-and the gay gay- light lanes the cabarets make malic ready for Cor a snappy harvest Theatre sales PIck up and m models deis' deis who ho do ble s entertainers prep prepare e to lose s e a a. a t I of sleep In the small tov t they Walt for forthe th the f farmers with crops crops har to come to town to spend his money j J In Manhattan the cut t town out wn buyer buer has become the spending tr lie He as sa a sucker because he comes comes' prepared prepared pre pre- pared to toss a certain of t this his roll away and asks few questions ques- ques concerning its destination so long as he hasa g od time GILBERT SWAN Copyright ht 1927 NEA |
