Show 1THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 'Sfc ' f 14 1935 Counts Don’t Count Any More for This Patrician Deb Who Once Liked T11C ” Foreign Loiterers” —She’s Married a Peppy Jazzmaster U S Style f ' SUNDAY MORNING JULY & $-- k 'Vi &0°lC A Tu k kVs ¥ v v fl m wrnmm ' vs vs - A o i mlSmiSrnismiSmWii v y 'v :&&: ° a J mw "&' t ' : $0q iSf t 4 "£"1 Ilf rs- f'fc (H JU'—: "N 07 fs '“Vs - f ( '‘ ffi v " 1- - :' V L £:& a ' y a A' £ £& ' A p $ - '" sww' r&it 1 N Stf£ m rr j y I CSV o Q tP 4$ e r THE BRIDEr SHE “GREW UP" Vy Riitr Marjorto Oolrioh One She Who Kia Book tbo Social Dab Loitarora” aGlobo'Tfottlni for "European Plumped at —But a Yoan y S Bandmaitap Chanfad Her Heart d wb gay and young and socially and lllta so many debbies of time she fondly nursed a creed which contained the following articles : That American men Hi not know kow to make tove loaf gracefully loi- SHE o rt i) Piwriti Studio Portrait of tki "The debutante went for dashing young Eddie Duchin be waved in a big vty— hia baton over that super wanky hotspot band ia Central Park Marjorie’e glance fell on bit very American mannerisms— end lingered” — Drawing by George Karr u 0 0 4 cil -- ter charmingly or drink suavely That American men were so ambiintious they were depressing-bori- ng ‘ deed That American men lacked the centuries of aristocratic breeding enjoyed by French Spanish Italian Russian Belgian and Austrian swains of the ruling classes— which made all ol the Continentals indnitely preferable as bus- bands And so on —to the end of the article which appeared under the byline of none ether than Miss Marjorie Oelrichs who has one of the most illustrious famBut that was ily trees in New York in 1927 So what Miss Oelrichs did the other day enables us to eheek off another item to be (eluded in the next edition of “Only Yesterday”— along with the other discarded and outworn beliefs fads enthusiasms and animadversions of the 1920’s Miss Oelrichs went and married a young man who was not only typically into the barAmerican but gain— besides being furiously ambitious ery busy and having nearly every quality you WOULDN’T associate with European loiterers plucked from the titled classes Back in 1927 Miss Oelrichs asked herself “What’s Wrong Witk American Men?" “Everything F was her answer according to the signed article in a naself-ma- tionally circulated magazine But more recently she seems to have refrained the question making it: “What’s wrong with' Eddie Due km eurly-haire- d orchestra leader par excellence and darling of the Central Park Cosine set f“ And this time her heart shouted : "Nothing I Absolutely nothing But alas tor Miss Oelrichs’ scintillating and beautifully blast observations wf her girlhood spent among the gallants of an older and mellower civilisation across the set! Her new husband i simply Mrs Duehin’s hoy from Boston Mass who studied sleek-manner- II chemistry at the local Pharmacy Col- but found out that he could make more money and have more fun tickling the ivories end piloting a swank band than he could running even a chain lege 0 II Os to-cie-tv AFTER THE CEREMONY The Cameraman Barely Had Tima to Snap This drug stores After the Wedding PicMarjorie couldn’t have picked a prodture of Mr and Mra Eddia uct with a homelier background (or a Duchin He Had a Radio handsomer profile) than busy Eddie Broadcast to Conduct and Duchin What then caused her to Tickets to Buy for His change her mind about American men? Combined Honeymoon and Now Marjorie in case you haven’t Orchestra Tour been boning up on your Social Register homework is the granddaughter of Mr Because Marjorie hasn’t any money- -in Mamma and Mrs Charles M Oelrichs the Park Avenue conception of the Oelrichs of Morristown N JM is a nines Hers is one of those families long of the late Mrs Herman Oelrichs and a word sister of the first Mre W K “Vander-bll- t on tradition blue blood and talent but Marjorie’s aunt is Ms Harrison short of cash Tweed It’s a society setup with few As Mrs Eddie Duchin on the other backgrounds comparably she will be able to enjoy all the hand is herself a Marjorie more than one sense of the word things appropriate for a girl so manifirl in has tossed off attractive murals festly to the manor born Eddie has that were praised by artists in many made good in the big city in a big way world capitals She has decorated her His salary at the Casino has run to friends’ apartments in the glittering modern manner She has sculpted She four or five figures every week for years has played the piano and launched fads and Broadway tattle seys be has a cool in clothing ana perfumes $100000 salted away in prime bends She has staged fashion shows — includStill nobody een cay Marjorie’s ing one at the Central Park Casino about-fac- e in her estimate of American where Eddie plays She has helped her mother sell perfumes to men as lovers wasn’t pure romance But the smart set She has modelled for a before we bring the bov and girl tofamous Parisian couturier Not even gether let’s go back s lew years end Merjorie’i natrician - magician - cousin quote from that ghostly article: Herman Oelrichs Newport’s sleight-of-han- d 7 prefer foreign men to American laureate can conjure up as many talents men Surely then none of her debutants “I eppreve of them as lovers loiterand frienda can hold it against ers dancing partners and sportsmen-n- nd Marjorie if now she elects to change her because they are WITHOUT ammind: to "go American” in a big way And eha may justifiably point out bition "I like their frankness that the article which how ha been raised to haunt and taunt her in her "And I like their utter lack of egohoneymoon bliss left her an "out” It tism ended with the statement that although "Will it surprise you— I have lived she preferred European men she wasn't abroad as much as a( Homo— if insist necessarily going to marry one! It wpuld have been a pity if she bad that the foreigner who marries an —for very few ef the debonair Romeos American girl for hot monoy is tbo exception end the one who mnrrios bor ef the Old World society set have anyfor lovo the rulo" thing more negotiable than ta voir fair ( Aside- - time out for exclamations of It would have been a shame to eee Mar joris’s beauty wit and preference for very real surprise) nice thingi languishing on an income of “Foreign men m alee great lovers and s few thousand francs marks pesetas loitorors having learned that love is or lira among the fine arts ae well ae among of was soon waving a baton over the musicians at tho amazing age of 21 and earn ing a stupendous salary He didn’t seem to earn His work much for girls was alL Then came Marjorie and with the informality that can characterize the up per strata of New York when it lets itself bn itself he and the were soon chatting together at inter missions— then going out afternoons Then the wu taking piano lessons from him Then In love— and presto! Of course Marjorie waa not the type of girl to be panicked and palpitated by every handsome orchestra leader she saw She waa smooth She waa smart She had been around— ta the chic night places of several Continents But Eddie was— different! He was — and ia ‘ —almost as different aa the debutantes think ha is When intermission eame the other jazzicista went out into the fragrant darkness of Central Park to stroll and smoke Or they Or they shot craps ik the room set aside for them Not Eddie! He sat right on at the piano playing softly improvising running off new and whimsical melodies And the result was that those informal playful intermissions became a drawing card The debs swarmed around and hungered for a sraDe orji nod of recognition from their Eddie In that 1927 outburst there wss the following intimation of what happened to brides of the “ideal groom” the European count or duke or marouis: “When the American girl marries him if ebe does she will probably bn taken to live on one of bis family estates “She will find it dull there— if she ia incurably American— as there will be no night clubs or any gayety of tha kind she has been used to" But picture Marjorie now as Mra Duchin! She has just set forth with her husbapd on a tour of the U 8 playing in eities from Washington D G to the West Coast 'TbaY her honeymoon— with a boy who has never learned how to loiter who doesn't drink who never gracefully or otherwise made lovemaking an art because ht never had the time or the inclination ta play around and who above all is in- curably American 1 blue-blood- ed well-round- blue-blood- I PLAYING TO HIS "MARGE” rifilM Characteristic SVe Keyboard Snapshot o f Eddie Duchin Who vised - ImproCharm- Spontaneous Melodies to Warm Miss ing ) ' Oelrichs Patrician Heart life’s treasures that vert r'T hQits and to love lei- sure is the most desirable thing in life" (That was in dear dead 1927 — when the difference between leisure and unwas much more proemployment gos-sipp- ed ’mi ito nounced) “A European man”— to continue the rhapsody- -" does not tell her ol his success in the business world or ol “ONLY YESTERDAY on the polo held Ho talks to Actual Reproher about herself" duction of Heading of the Article most ironic of all deliciously Finally Printed in 1927 and Signed "By in view of the way Marjorie met Eddie— Marjorie Oehridu” Defending tho Noble Loiterers of Europe and Dis“If he is in deadly earnest be will But Her paraging American Men ask her to meet his mother 1s as American and Brideg)-do“The mother when the American Hardworking as They Cornel girl encounters her will prove to be some duchess marquise or couqtess of jorie and Eddie would have horrified any incredibly ancient lineege end with e bone fide French Count for over there simplicity oi manners to thrill the nice young' girls simply do not meet She just started — bandleaders socially heart" — 7to the Casino with the rest of Well Marjorie has probably met the going her crowd and natursllv her glance fell elder Mrs Duchin by now and has de—and lingered— upon handsome Eddie Duchin- cided that duchesses of incredibly anEddie bed won t piano audition sponcient lineage have no corner on simLeo Reisman the then leader plicity of manners Hearty New Eng sored byCasino orchestra a job had enland housewivM havl been known to of the sued popularity had followed and the master the art lad from Boston had become the debuThe actual first encounter of Mar- - tante’s idol aa a master of jazziqua He s i i |