Show SUNDAY MORNING APRiL 6 THE OGDEN STANDARD - EXAMINED ' I mr y - $ ? The Very Strange Triple Romance of the Magicians ' the Millionaire With Daughter Who Eloped Son v J sfV'f's' V V v ' ypywJ 'o t 5 t? ' h tj ’ ! s Nr v Si is an assistant stage manager” ' stage manager jjHarry?” Harry said hel could think of nothing more delightful! So that was settled And then Harry isuddenly exclaimed: “Maybe I ought to tell my folks about this?” i“ About what? Being the assistant asked Thurston stage manager?’ “No about being married” he res : j plied The Harris family was informed of had hap-i- what had happen e — fact in and wired pened twce But they also back approval wanted to know if Jane and Harry wpuldn’t do it all over again - d-r-- what s - uvf and on March 1 they said most “I DO!” So Jane and Harry are pretty definitely married They are spending their honeymoon traveling with Mr Thurston’s show And if the magician falters now and then during his performances t i3 not unreasonable to believe that "he is thinking of his daughter and her baffling romance i For even the great Thurston was unaware that his daughter had marf " y-- £ 1 “ ' - i - I while Thurston and were family moving through the country with their his Jane show and On March 1 the bride and groom already twice married were joined In matrimony for the third time with a priest Harry managed to keep in touch with each other But nothing unusual was noticed by Dane’s family Perhaps it was because the magician had always felt as if his little girl would never grow up Marriage to him seemed like a thing far off so far as his Jane was concerned A few weeks ago the company went to Pittsburgh Once more again Jane and Harry were united Some time during the one week’s stand in that city the two hurried away from their families and were married by a justice of the peace For fear of worrying Jane’s father they used assumed names And still Thurston the magician who had solved many secrets was not aware of what had happened When he finally learned that Hary Harris was attending his performances nightly he was flattered and thanked Harry for showing so much interest in his work Five weeks later the show played Cincinnati The first morning of his stay Thurston was surprised to run into Harry in his hotel lobby Harry was all smiles and affability He said he was stopping at the same hotel as the Thurstons “Why don’t you drop up and see Mrs Thurston and Jane?” suggested w I al X - ?' ' I (V em-phatlca- '?mrO i j re-ti- ed !! an- i weeks The young man who had such an Important part in this unusual performance was Harry Harris son of the late John T Harris former Pennsylvania State Senator and millionaire theatrical magnate ' Their meeting was curious and dramatic enough but the manner in which the marital knot they tied and has seldom been duplicated— either on or off the stage First they were married under assumed names Then fearing this was illegal they were married by a magistrate And finally because the bride is a Catholic the knot was tied for the third time by a priest said ' Charming nounced Thurston suddenly “How would you liki to be our assistant ' daughter Jane was married three times to the same young man all in the space of six son-in-la- A work if possible The only difficulty was that the Thurston show only visited Pittsburgh fence a year “What this show has always needed 19-year-- ried the first time secretly He was reconand became only greatly upset ciled when his daughter and new assured him they would stay with his Fhow In a sense Thurston should not have been surprised because the props for his daughter’s romance were set up even before she was born That was some thirty-fiv- e years ago when Thurston was comparatively unknown He was identified with a “Little Country Circus” that traveled about through the small towns of the East sometimes going even into the far West While barmstorming through Pennsylvania the outfit became stranded in The performers and a small town management promptly wired all their friends for assistance Thurston remembered the wealthy Senator Harris with whom he was slightly acquainted The Pittsburgh theatre magnate at once sent enough money to bring the show to his own city There he put it into one of his show houses for a week’s run He also bought Thurston his first dress suit informing the magician that he needed more “class’ ’if he hoped to succeed in his business From that day Thurston prospered it also marked the beginning of a great friendship that was cemented as the went by Through the Senators Jears Thurston was able to organize his own show and eventually to become one of the leading stage magicians in the United States The wizard illusionist never forgot his old friend He visited Senator Harris whenever he played in Pittsburgh Meanwhile Thurston's wife and only child Jane always traveled with him The little girl and Harry Harris had been playmates during their childhood whenever the magician stopped in Pittsburgh The years found Jane becoming and increasingly curious about prettier her father’s show When she readied the age of 17 she became an imj&rt-an- t — and attractive — part of Thurston’s performances Harry HaS meanwhile entered his father’s theiWi-cbusiness reputed to be worth several million dollars About a year ago after a long absence due to the demands of “the road” Thurston and his theatrical company arrived in Pittsburgh There the magician and his family again were guests at the home of Senator Harris who had died in the interim Jane and Harry became acquainted once more ? Photographic Portrait of Miss Thurston Daughter of Howard Thurston the Magician a Site Appeared After Her Frst Marriage UPID is a magician who can perform strange and bewildering tricks with human hearts and lives Even stage magicians are forced to bow before him Howard Thurston the famous magician recently found that out when his J i 5?p' “On January 18 they eloped and were secretly married by a justice of tbe peace but kept their wedding secret” "VAV ' r A HM“ tr W4 f i if S' pretty $ s- AK At v -- r K They found it necessary to marry m wcond time and so on February 22nd the knot was tied again for them” officiating” the wizard Harry immediately disappeared like one of Thurston’s own illusions A little later he and Jane had a hurried conference and then they decided to break the news to Mrs ThurstonShe inf ormed i them that a marriage under their right names was the best course to follow and so they hurried over to Newport iKy just across the river from Cincinnati There they were married this time by Magistrate Thomas again Hanley It became a problem of how to break the news to the magician who still felt as If his daughter was Just a little girL Mrs Thurston broke the news recall-f ing to him their own marriage" when she herself was but sixteen Still the magician was stunned was a piece of magic to Mm— --just as it is to all fathers s i For s a father being human finds it difficult to understand that the he k looks upon as a child can daughter be- suddenly come a grown : woman and v married! through a few "1 do’s” and the use of a magic band of gold— or platininm It was just before a 3 Saturday night’s performance that the magician learned he was a father-in-lav Cupid j j r of keeping Jane completely devoted to her stage career That night the two Thurstons gave one of the most nervous performances in their careers Jane completely spoiled one trick by knocking over a group of flags that were on tbe and she stuttered and “dried up”stage on her lines An audience that did not yet know of the drama that had taken place behind the scenes wondered at toe strange hesitancy and lack of confidence shown by the great Thurston He had difficulty with his bits of lriagic - 5 This-indee- ? -- ‘ w ! and Mrs Harris Photographed Soon After Their Second Marriage In kentneky J ane an Episcopalian and Harry They decided to be married for the third time in a Catholic church They chose St Louis’ Church and wee married in the recg tory there It piarked the first in the rectory which had been This opened only v week before church is in the downtown theatrical section and-iattended by ‘many theatrical folk ter Harry i&nd Jane stepped out of the rectory writh the marriage knot Vhter “Is ever the bridegroom cxcjfimcd everybody happy or shall wo get married some more?” But it looks' as though they will not to get married more and Mr Thureton will not beanyseparated from his daughter She will continue to appear with him on the stage For their honeymoon Mr and Mrs Harris remained with the show traveling through the various cities 13 is a Homan Catholic !! wed-jdin- - s w-- 4 1 - er6 ane appeared with her father The bridegroom! also decided that a mere honeymoon didn’t have to Inter f®1® with stage business—for that is i the tradition of all “good troopers’ Of course it was hut natural to expect that Jane would not be up to her usual self on the stage There were At one point when he was supposed too many breathless things to think to produce rabbits from a hat the rababout bits simply refused to be produced Dur- prove a! One marriage is enough to ing another moment In the show he emotional strain pnbuta young woman's systeni when three mar jumbled his card tricks The audience and Mages— to all same man— are the of course was astonished The great into! six compressed hectic weeks of Thurston apologized but he didn’t ex-- 1 doubt fear secrecy In toe andflnally openly back of his mind was plain that and love It Is trying happinesi the realization of Dan' Cupid’s most avowed Indeed extraordinary feat And perhaps Jpnce iita while when After the show the audience is Applauding Thurston's ity know whether Hams was 3 e?11 his daughter ve thiPking him and°away ' wh®se bow and n toe from stage SjL°£5f youngcontinS onn such unusual said he would Uke Jane h£ ?SS£ to -- But it was different this time Jane had grown up into a beautiful young woman Harry was twenty-fiv- e big and handsome and a business man And right under the nose of the Thurston Cupid began to pergreat his form own little trick of magic If he had been able to see all those in the auditorium during his week’s stay in Pittsburgh Thurston would have noticed that young Harry sat in one of the front row seats every and also during the Wednesday night and Sat-- 1 And if he had oburday matinees Vi ? ’ ' - 1 i V served this young man he would have noticed he was most atentive to the lh -A i performance during those moments t when the graceful Jane was on the When Thurston the Magician and Mis Daughter Jane were welcomed to ISeW : stage York by Mayor Walker at the Gty Hall Of Course They Were Given During the year that followed the Key to the City— as If Magiciani Need Keys! 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