Show i 7 f f Magazine sectton THE HERALIVEEPUBLICAN MAGAZINE SECTION SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MAY 13 : i V' I - i k - I $ m ' - a Supreme Court Justice Hendrick Says That He Didn’t Signor Ciccolini and Other Indignant Men Say They Didn’t and So Remains One of J the Deepest s yr' " ''A Mysteries That Ever Infected the Life Miss Albertina Marlowe Better Known as II Baby’ Marlowe of Pretty MARLOWE of Mrs Rob- Louis Aero Club They all shake their heads negatively ert E Nolker was dancing in Each is quite sure that the slap was not his Each is Just as positive the latter’s apartments in New York that he doesn’t know whose slap it city when somebody slapped her was and hasn’t the least idea where ' - When I left tne utel I took ’Baby’ with me Her education had been sadly neglected so I started teaching her grammar history and French “After I got back to New York a few months later I saw a good deal of the little girl She visited me at my apartments nearly every day and we went right on with the studybills By Geraldine Jewett ALBERTINE gram “Baby” Marlowe was the Somebody slapped “Baby" Mar it originated And yet “Baby" Marlowe says she lowe! to know something rabout It ing" ought The echo of that slap reached to Everything went along beautifully Inasmuch as she is the one who felt a year and a half ago when until the dressing room of one of the the of the blow She can’t be Mrs Nolker sting tenors and of Italian caused very positive however as to the auaccompanied by “Baby" greatest Marlowe a visited him no few uneasy moments parthe" offense for when her thor of — It invaded Wall street went crash- testimony was concluded it was lor The elder woman had Just ing into the accustomed calm of one found that the questions were so cashed a check for a thousand dolof that street’s noted figures worded it was impossible to tell who lars Duringsothe time she was there she said had departher money It found Its way to St Louis —and she really thought had “done the ed from her bag and she charged thousands of feet In the air a well deed” hair-dressin- ij The suit in its ramifications brought originally in St Louis spread out over so much territory that the taking of numerous depositions from prominent persons in various cities and circles became necessary It seems that Mrs Nolker had operatic ambitions Her European trips have been taken largely for the purpose of rounding out her musical career' She had given several concerts in her apartments in New York followed occasionally by Informal dancing parties and a number of celebrities had taken part either as guests or contributors to the pro- known resident of that city taking courts are fairly cluttered with an afternoon spin In his airplane no theThe ramifications of that slap various doubt felt if he did not actually hear echo that la the Courts nor of neither persons Respecter There was the charge of theft of places that echo trespassed on the 1000 1 sacred portals of pie law and dinned against the girl by Mrs Nolinto the ears of a Justice of the su- ker her exoneration her subsequent suit for 9100000 libel against preme court of an imperial state The temptation is keen to say that Mrs Nolker Later there followed the suit for “it was a slap heard 'round the divorce brought - by Mr Nolker world’ and the truth is that the reverberations of that untoward and against his wife These three main issues have led inexplicable event were actually to erstmany minor court Issues until the sanctums heard in the of the while Russian nobility even Ger- question of who slapped “Baby" Marmany France and Italy caught a few lowe is so entangled in red tape and of the sound waves generated by legal phraseology that it is no wonder that even the principal at the that slap receiving end of the episode couldn’t A New Mystery testify clearly as to what actually How old was Ann? Who hit Billy happened Patterson? Those questions were Picking up the threads of the story as simple of solution as the kinder- as best one can from the mass of garten's first lesson in arithmetic data the story runs like this: the Mrs Robert E Nolker wife of the compared with the the president of the St Louis Aero Club g problem that was in Paris shortly before the war grew out of that innocent little started and while there met Alber-tin- e dance in that quiet little apartment Marlowe then a girl about 13 one stilly evening: years old and her mother Who slapped “Baby" Marlowfe? Says MrJ Nolker: The tenor looks at the business “I felt very sorry for Baby as we man the business man looks at the called her because she and her supreme court Justice ' the Justice mother seemed to be hard up and I looks at the president of the St ' lent them money to pay their hotel globe-trottin- g -- all-absorbi- ng ever-perplexin- g peace-destroyin- mind-torturin- g' g At days and she was acquitted Following this action the father acting as guardian for his child employed to bring suit for $100000 for defamation of character “Baby" Marlowe’s complete vindication came when it was announced that the defendant had made a retraction including a settlement and all costs The father stated that the suit was not a mercenary one that the $2000 would not pay the costs entailed by him in the case but he was determined to gain complete vindication for his daughter Which Lou-Tellege- ni r at-torne- ys he did wit- ness as to these concerts "Baby" on the Stand She testified that Guido Ciccolini the Italian tenor was a frequent visitor she mentioned Justice Peter A Hendrick of the New York supreme court as among those she had met there She referred to the actyr and husband of Geraldine Farrar —and quite an array of foreign visitors of note She Involved a Russian count “whose name I can’t recall" Her story carried her into Wall street and gathered in its folds Burton S Castles member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Cotton Exchange As startling and as surprising as some of the testimony was it turned out ' that an innocent and comparatively unimportant detail is now the outstanding sensation of the 'entire series of dramatic occurrences In describing one of the concerts — or rather the dance that followed— she referred to the fact that she was dancing with Chester Norton a young 'HE comment has often been business man While' dancing she made that the great European was slapped v"s conflict has destroyed all the A Legal Puxxle glamour of war and now It may be It developed later that the ques- added speaking more literally that tions and answers were so framed it modern war methods are removing was impossible to tell who slapped all the lustre and glitter from war 'Z: her equipment Just as the gaudy uniSo the Court began asking: “Who forms have given way to those of dull color so now the lustre of bayoslapped ‘Baby Marlowe?”' V The various witnesses were ques-- nets is to be destroyed The authorities of the United tioned All of the guests that even-in- g were asked The friends of Mr States army have decided that a com' Nolker of Mrs Nolker and the pub-li- e pany of marching soldiers with shingenerally have taken up the- ing steel blades on their rifles would slapped ‘Baby Mar- be too easy a e target for hostile airquery: “Who v V rvv-- ' men and lowe?” artillery ConChester Norton said he was quite sequently all bayonets including those of the militia are to be “blued" sure he did not de- - by a special process In his Hendrick Justice Chief V -- that the little girl had taken it Then the storm started The trial of the girl lasted four star position stated that he had not slapped her had not seen her slapped and hadn’t the least idea who could have done it Signor Guido Ciccolini the temperamental tenor between ejaculations is quite sure in the most exclamatory manner that he doesn’t know the giver or the instigator of the blow — and he is equally positive that he never cooked macaroni in the apartments that night as had been intimated Mr Nolker who wasn't there at the time doesn’t know Mrs Nolker is totally ignorant on the subject and besides she has a complaint to make on her own hook She doesn't know who slapped “Baby” Marlowe and she is sure she herrelf hasn’t been slapped but “I am a young woman in the bloom of life with no roses thrown at her— only lemons All my husband asks is that he be permitted to sing in court that new song T got more than my share when I married you’ ” And as the depositions pile up one after another denying all knowledge of the “slap that rang around the world” “Baby” Marlowe shrugs her shoulders as if to say: “If the courts can’t find out we shall await the verdict of history for surely some Sherlock Holmes in flesh and blood will arise to meet the occasion One can’t get a slap without being slapped and surely some day I shall be able to point an accusing finger at a haughty figure in a limousine and say: " "That man slapped Baby - ' t&r 'TXY v -- Lustreless Bayonets ' Coming now to the present year with “Baby" Marlowe 16 years old with the past troubles apparently relegated to the dead but unforgettable past the dark clouds portending a new storm slowly gather above the household of the Nolkers and a new chapter of the exciting career of the pretty little protege is writ-ten into the records Nolker entered suit against his wife for divorce charging that she had thrown chairs at him treated him with the' utmost contempt was sarcastic about everything he said that she called him a “Dutch boob" and committed other indiscretions 'M ’ long-rang- ' ' J - v Newspaper Feature Service 1917 v j Vr f : i ' ‘A - 4 ' M - |