Show () Sunday Murnitij ?Tijc his lnokul of amoui a that it was mile wicked mode of life and bciamo a learned libtanati dcMious only of the rase of an arnuhait be foie a hie in his own health Skip a few untunes and we Find Harry Ruhman one of the griat plavbovs of his time scuttling home from his night club duties to putfer around the house so abject a pictuie of domesticity that one wondeis whether jesteiday’s headlines were the dteams of a romancer (eilainly the Harry Ruhman of today is not the Hairy Ruhman of a decade or less ago He is still tall broncd with black tuily hair slicked back to one side His face still has the lough-how- n lines that so many women found attiactive He still diesses with the ten best still possesses the suavity of man-nthat distinguished his career as one of the nation’s best singers of songs But he no longer turns his head for a picttv ankle and his ryes flick over the stunning hi auties in the night club shows 'with complete peisonal disin- A bn i k on s i ighti o July 16 1939 Id whin she vv is clio c n to rc pi ecent the the I n it i h'alcs in the international biautv pagi ant She got a job with Zugftld and was one ol his most glorified u nutit s In HlS she jdaved hookey one n ght fiom the iigfild production of " W hoopc ” and imu i led Kdvv ai d J nelson a salesman of de luxe automobiles She w as a will know n hi ight light then in fad Jack Dempscv once e friend Joe Benjasocked hi 9 min dui ing a hotel tiff over ter Fleven months after her hist marriage she Judson naming a eo respondent In 11H1 she man led Paul 0 Richmond who was 47 to her 21 but they were appaientlv very happv and when he died in 1972 Hazel had been at his bedside seven days He left her a fortune estimated at the time at from $2000000 to 15000000 fiom his tooth paste and hair shampoo interests Actually the estate was wortK about $3 000000 Hazel went out to the west coast and tried to crash the films She did get a couple of roles but she was frightened by a senes of threatening letters She met Richman there and when she came east he bombarded her with flowers candy and telephone rails Soon thrv had an understanding and then Hazel admitted a maniage was in the offing Anv doubt they were in love was soon after the wedding when Hazel was stneken ill because she would not leave Hairy’s side during Richman la No night duh rehcaisals weakcold Longer Interbut At fust it was only a ested in Broadened hv lift failure to get enough sleep Hazel fell piey to pneumonia and for a way’s Beauties while her life was despaired of Harry was so pathetically grief-st- i ic ken that even the most calloused along Broadway conceded that at last leal love had reached what had been regaided as on of the toughest of all stiongholds — the Richman heart Hazel’s life was saved bv the use of the then new chug sulfanamide They have been insepaiable since Hazel buys his ties shuts and socks at rehearsals she sits quiet lv by andcio-chet- s or knits When llany is not woiking they spend most of their time at home abiunng the late spots that once claimed so much of their leisure They arc now planning to adopt a baby This is not the Harry Richman that Plata Bow know Nor is he the same man Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Lenore Nor any of the countless I’ll ic knew otlieis Clara Bow was probably his most sei lous romance before his marriage to Haze — e ei tauilv it was his most public ize cl Miss Bow the shapely who epitomized the Hollywood sex appeal of hei era — they called her the Brooklyn beinfne — fell in love with ltaiiv and and he seemed to be in love with her very week he sent her 30 dozen gardenias and a dozen oichids for her They weie together everywhere but Hum who loves to diess and live could not become accus luxuriously tomed to Claia’s habit of showing up at formal dinner paities in sknt sweater and tennis sneakers Their rifts and reconciliations were moie frequent and as sensational as th 11 i i j0jn Barrymoir-Klain- e James and c fig-u- ie Draw Up an long-tim- Armchair Before the Fire for ei Mr Harry Richman teiest '1 -- (Tribunc- - The Slippers By Rob Roberts CASANOV Salt £akc hat the time would ever come when Ruhman would pass a beauty by may seem too inciedible for belief But it is Simply proven Ferry night a striking woman emerges alone from a Bioadway motion picture house She goes to the stage door of one of the town’s hot spots and waits there Soon Hariy emerges fondlv kisses his wife Hazel hoibes and they go home together to their apaitment in town nr to their sumptuous estate at Becchhuist long Island Weekends or other free days provide the clinching evidence On her last biithday Hazel said she wanted only one piesent — a sewing machine' And she el was a famous V ollies beaut v II ai i v got hei the machine and she peisonallv made all the spieads and chafes in the Beechhurst house Hairy himself sit up a small wotkshop in the basement and built main of the chans table s and odd ornaments strewn about the palatial lesulence Says he gets a leal kick out of it too There aie not many links with the gilded past left in Ruhman’s life He still wears on his left wnst the heavy chased silver slave biacclct that (laia Bow the "It” girl gave him as an engagement piesent but it is symbolic now moie of his taste for the exquisite than as a lingeiing memento of a romance that once flamed aeioss the continent Otheiwise he laiclv mentions the lovely fiagments in the mosaic of his mommy — but if anv man can diaw on the yeais for delightful reminiscences Harry Rahman is that man hi nee Hard I oi bes so i hanged his life it would perhaps be best to single out first the most lasting love of his life Now that they aie mat ried Ha7el tells her friends that she fell in love with Hariy 12 yeais ago when she was a showgirl 17 yeais old But two marriages came between that youthful infatuation and their wedding in Palm Spiings Cal in March 19 18 Hazel was reel-hea- el 1 bed-loo- m 1 ' Barrie They mix-u- p parted finallv — and bitterly — but the yeais have eased the sting and when Clara and her hus- band Rex Bell bad their hist child Ruhman was the godfather Harry made his successful caieer the hard wav He was a chauffeur and a sailor in the U 8 navy and a lifeguard at Coney Island before h got his fiist break This came when a Fach Night fter Vi ork Harry Fond-lKisses His W ife Hard Forhes Then 'I lrev Ieave (Quietly for Home v Chicago piano fac-ty hired him H woiked up the tedious scale until he oi j If l convinced Mae West he was the piano plaver for her vaudeville ait The Dollv Sisters engaged him but when they went baik to I uiope he w as stranded x V l’lo-due- after pro- ducer turned him down hired him Ziegfeld for the Amsterdam Roof but when Richman started New off with one of his own songs they turned out the lights It wasn’t until he managed to get When Harry Kic liman Married Ilael Forhe He Headed Straight Into Domealu its hovr as I hey (art the Wedding Cake More 'Ilian a ear go backing for his own night club — Club Richman — that he really be- - gan to go places and the Tadio gav him the last push to the top As he buame bitter known he met and kniw many cilthrated wotiun Pi ggv Hopkins June and Iinoie I vi i re both rumored engaged to him when Inst he swam into the public kt n W hen he co star i id w ith hi aru es W in the "hiandals” he and i anas carried the ir romance backstage with tin m Iina Itasquctte the lovilv film star of a fiw yeais ago was one '1 of his serious heart interests hey seemed devoted and Harry knew the romance was over only when Inna announced that she would marrv ll'dlv-wnn- d camel aman reveroll Marlcy Richman’s next heart interest was diVnginia Biddle the minutive beauty who used to do nudes at the now defunit llollvwood RestauThis lomanio rant on Rroadway landed in the eourt in a speitacular fashion There was a gay party on Hillman's yaiht "Miss Liberty” Mark when an explosion occurred 1 black-hanc- d the columnist and Ruh-ma- n Ilelhngir risked their live to save Gladys (lad one of Ziegfild's most beautiful ami Virginia and fought to save Helen alsh anot hei h olht s girl who died despite their cffoits Miss Biddle sued for 000(1 chaiging hi i beauty and netves VV had i s I X1 is'?! lS?rji f bun Dorothy Durrill Followed liman to I uiupr Imt He Shipped Her Baik Home One of riavhov ltiilimiin'a Most I’uldii ized Bonimiea Wua Shared hv ie ( owhov Rev Bi the “It” (it ( la r Bow 'she I alter Mtirrii d and Harry M ted a (odfathrr for I hi ir 1 irat ( luld I 11 Hairy lavislnd Lifts on iv ( ooled lien She I old About I heir I rirndship lining Many (Mima Show gu I I dilli Roaik the I’m a Ml 1 1 AN she received 70 v free as it is possible for one of hia t annul to he '1 hen he nut goigeous h ditli Roark w ho was hi mg set n cv ei with tjeoige Raft Hairy was her constant companion for months He la islu d rustic gift on hei But Kdith dev loped what was to Harry an annoying ti ait She told the pre-- s all about their fnendship That endtd it Miami Iliac h was the setting for th next Riihmnn lonianie ’I lie heioine was Dorothy Dai roll dark pitite ami 17 When Hart y went to London to alar at the ( afe de Paris she followed him theie on the next boat and the resultant publicity so rmhannssrd Riihmnn that he gave hi r a hit of fathc i ly advice and shippi d hi r hai k home '1 hi ie wetp many more hut Harry is a nurned man now so imikly ohidunt that he virtually has givi n up (lying lie om e although (immud and mini as inilio mail on the lound tup trans- it n ie flight with Du k Mr l rill But th it IS all in the part and Hrnml-wh- v wall lung him with Han min s dm lares that he fiund his true line at I Kic impaired hor scveial seasons he was as fancy - 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