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Show Separated From Her Artistic and Once jjfL WBTWE Weatthy Husband, Will She Return IBI ' f to the former Dancing Partner Who I Has Also Had an Unhappy Experience Wmr 111 l 1 ! g ai' h 6 , With a Fashion- rlO I Ben All Haggin and S ' y-'X 1 -, Lmc3?heyi, soefondof Jfk ' t & DIC OOClCty SMi designing W:' 1 - I M ' ' 1 "I OUR very interesting persons who i p have nil i veiled the newspaper front pages frequently during the past few years seem about to give a living demonstration of the truth of the old adaees that oil and water will not mix and that water invariably seeks its own level. Bonnie Glass and Al Davis, the former dancers; Ben Ali Haggin, the millionaire million-aire artist, and Eugenia Kelly, the society so-ciety heiress, are through with their quadrille. Their ill-advised partnerships arc soon to be dissolved and the four men and women put back where they were ten years ago, when love blinded them into thinking they could defy the laws eternal. It is expected that the separation : granted Bonnie Glass some time ago frcm Ben Ali Haggin will soon be stretched into a divorce And the for-ruer for-ruer Eugenia Kelly has aiready filed her uU in Par in, seeking a divorce from Al Davis for desertion and other causes When there two divorces are accom-r accom-r plished facts, what will pretty Bonnie Glass do? According to the gossip of New York's Broadway, there is only one answer to I; this question. She will again fling her-h her-h self into the arms of her former dancing partner, Al Davis this time a.; his If this happens. Bonnie and Al will be back on the round of ttie social ladder where they were when they started their daring flight upward. Both have tried life with a moneyed mate. Botn left the world of make-believe and the glare of the bright lights I for the soft, refined glow of a fashionable fashion-able fireside. And both hove found that tere is an intangible something about life in society circles that does not fit L in with their temperaments or the scheme of things the stars have marked out for them. It is Broadway's notion that Bonnie nd Al, two of the best little dancers who ever got a hand from the patrons of the cabarets during the days when E. dancing was setting everybody c7Vl will waltz otT in double harness, full of the experienca that comes from having K lived for a time in another world. It is a matter of ten fleeting years mce the dancing comrades capered Bayly Bay-ly before the Broadway crowds. Then long came Eugenia Kelly to bakJiP the combination. She was the daughter If . "f Kurrn, K.'Mv one of the solid oM Few York Irishmen who mode mono, 1 Just because ;t was in him to mkc 4t-He 4t-He had served the United States Treasury Treas-ury as u f,sca agent during the War, performing for a fjjj troubled national cash register just the Morgans did for the AH.cs in W te war It takes rfuimy-but then, J 11 is profitable. - . anA j So Kelly rounded out a useful an busy life with an estate that belonged be-longed in the millionaire class in a day before millionaires were as common as Ford automobiles in a country town. Two winsome win-some daughters were left among the Kelly assets along with the gold. Helen, the elder, eld-er, married Frank J. Gould, basked in the bright lights of Paris as Mrs. Gould for a season or two and then divorced di-vorced her lord and master of the old Jay Gould millions. Later, after being left a widow by her second husband, Ralph H. Thomas, she married Prince Vlora, a son of a former Grand Vizier to the Turkish Sultan Sul-tan and, by rca-ron rca-ron of the ancient an-cient notion that the Turks had of their rights before they were turned back at the gates of Austria by the Christians, a pre- i in thf ' -' ; ml Mi3S Willelte Kershaw, the ctage beat ty who was said to have been greatly great-ly admired by Mv. Haggin before he married Bonnie Glass throne of Albania. Albania has long been more or less of a ward of the Powers Pow-ers and the Turkish influence has pas) d, but Vlora. a gaj youth with nothing to do but live, kept up the pretension. Kor a time Helen Kelly enjoyed life in the gayest set of Pans as Princes Vlora, and then she sought the divorce courts with a view to bavin- her marital appendix removed by judicial decree Eugenia came along as n girl without care for the strings of social obliga-t obliga-t on She "hit Broadway" ten years ago Sten thing- -ere at their danc.ngc.st ,vhill Everybody was dancing. Old. fat men deserted the soup for a one-tcT one-tcT With Chorus girl and pushed as.de walnuts and the wine to make an a tempt a the waltz. Ambitious youth threw in the tango and variegated step-( step-( f the fox-trot as a contribution to the Jnd 'among those who inspired the L variety of table dancers to try fhfneweVt steps were Bonnie Glass and 0 , 1 - Al Davis. It all looked so easy when they executed exe-cuted the moi intricate steps of i the time Plunged Eugenia Eu-genia into this whirl, full steam ahead. She soon set a pace that made the bi ley gasp. She was a "good thing" for the element that is long on time and nerve and short on material rc-s rc-s o u r c e s . She could "buy," and was willing to sign the chei Within a few months she was one of the b I known figu along the Whi Way, and she became be-came enamored of the graceful Davis, who won 1 her heart, mak-3 mak-3 ing the begin-g begin-g ning with her toes. They were I- constantly together, to-gether, and it was soon rumored ru-mored thnt they would wed. Old Mrs Kelly, angered at the way Eugenia assailed the front door when In- came home with the milkman one morning and was refused admission to the house, denounced the girl as an incorrigible, and then the whole story broke into print It was scattered all over the front pages. All of a sudden Eugenia brought the. situation to a head by eloping with Davis to Elkton, Md , where a Mormon preacher paused in the lai,k of collecting converts for a oneway one-way tour to the West long enough to moke them one. They came back to Ixng Island, solemnly sol-emnly announced that they were going to live on a farm there and lead the simple life. They declared that pigs and chickens of the actual sort would take the places of the cabaret swinu before whom she had been casting pearls and the Broadway "chickens" with whom he had danced. It all went very well for a time Broadway forgot them. Along came iff A t- W - A L ' j the H.-nor- j able Andy I V o 1 s t ead i nnd took Broadway's j mind ofT the sensations sensa-tions that had marked other years, and the settling set-tling down of Al Davis and Eugenia Kelly came to be accepted ar a settled fact, along with prohibition and the hinh cost of synthetic gin. Now, after a long period of freedom from the freedom of the press, they have again broken into prominence with the filing of Mrs. Davis's Da-vis's divorce suit in gay Paree. And in the meantime as the caption writers put it in the movies: Bonnie CI , .i-parated from her old dancing partner by the vagaries of a fate that .-ent him to the home of a rich ; ung woman, found consolation In the attentions of one of the most picturesque characters that New York has yet produced. pro-duced. Ben Ali Haggin's father, James Ben Ah Haggin, was one of the country's solid men He owned mines and ranches and, upon occasion, picked the ponies with such rare skill that when he came to die he left behind him some 11,500,-000. 11,500,-000. Also, he left a son who was destined des-tined to make a name for himself in gay metropolitan lif Ben Ali Haggin he has the same full name as the father, but economy of time forbids the use of it all is an artist of ability. lie paints portraits that really look like people, and he paints them with consummate grace. Also, he is gifted in setting the mise-en-scene for tableaux in such ways as to luro and hold the eye. So miphty connoisseur as Flo Zieg-fejd Zieg-fejd has beggeo: his aid upon occasions, and the artistic as well as the rich have found pleasure in his output. And as for Bf-n Ali, he found pleasure in the society of Bonnie She married him and went to preside over the home of the millionaire artist. Now, this mii'ionaire artist has about as little regard for money as William H Anderson has for a hip pocket fiask or Mi Volstead himself, for that mat- I ter. Money means nothing to him. If there's a comfortable bank balance it is well for the peace of mind of the secretary. If not, why. the secretary may have a headache and walk the floor. Ben Ali is a man who refuses to bother his head whether the banks parallel his name with a black ink entry showing means or a red ink set of figures flagging the paying teller and putting him hep to the fact that an overdraft has been working. He lives in his own atmosphere and goodness knows mere money cuts no ice in that artistic realm. If he has the fancy he paints a picture. Does he v get a matter of $25,000 for it" BlanKil if he knows his secretary may have some note of it. Does Ziegfeld pay him more for a stage setting than a couple of governors earn in a year? Oli Lordy! Go ask the secretary. Ben Ali Haggin has other things on his mind. After his marriage he went on his way without tho slightest idea, apparently, that dollars along the White Way and in gay society are all equipped with so many wings that a fellow has, in the language of a local wag, "either to marry a Scotch wife or hire a flock of aviators to keep up with them." Bonnie Glass was neither a Scotch wife nor yet a flier. So one fine day sho woke up to the fact that the man who wanted a matter of$60 for tuning the piano could not be paid nnd that her milliner's bill for $170 for a nifty sky-piece sky-piece could not be met with anything other than a sweet smile. Did you ever try to meet a New York bill collector with a sweet smile and nothinjr more7 The net result of the whole thinir was that Bonnie and Ben Ali agreed to disagree. dis-agree. She got a separation and he went his way and she hers. All this happened just about the time when Eugenia Kelly was reaching the conclusion that the match she had entered en-tered into back in the White Eight days with Al Davis, the sparring beg par don, the dancing partner of Bonnie (Ilass, was made on Broadway and, q. e. d., not in heaven. Now, over in Paris Mrs. Al Davis is v ;! AI Davis, who used to be Bonnie Glass' dancing partner, and the former Eugenia Kelly, the 1 society heiress bride from whom he is now parted obtaining her decree, and in Xew York Bo-nie Bo-nie Glass is said to be j looking over her separation sepa-ration papers with view to seeing if they ire elastic enough to be tretched into a final ' decree. And in the meantime again borrowing a iumping-off phrase from the ' movies: The jazz music conies from a hundred New York palaces of the dance, thousands of gay and illing spirits wait to be entertained enter-tained and the same alluring pirit of music and rhythm that once brought Al Davis and Bonnie Glass together to-gether in the days before they were lured into another world in which neither belonged is calling them back honi. If the marriage Broadway expects does materialize it will be in the nature of an "I-told-you-fo" triumph for pretty Bonnie. When the bombshell over Eugenia Kelly's career among the white lights exploded with a roar that shook fashionable fash-ionable society, it has always been thought to have been Miss Glass who touched the match to the fuse. Sho did this, it was said, by telephoning nineteen-year-old Eugenia's mother and begging beg-ging her to force the crirl to break off her intimacy witn Al Davir This Bin Kelly wa unable to do. Whin she had Eutrcnia taken to court, charged with disobedience and associating associat-ing with vicious people, tho girl sturdily refused to repent or to arrree to live differently. dif-ferently. "I will not return home," she declared, "I will not apologize to anybody. I will not give up Al Davis." Eugenia kept her word, and a little later Bonnie Glas; had to endure the painful disappointment of seeing the heiress mnrri"d to the man with whom it is believed the pretty dancer was eager to waltz and tango through life. Because of Bonnie's disappointment many thought that her marriage to Ben AH Haggin was not the whole-hearted love match on her part that it might have been. She welcomed it, rumor said, r" largely in the hope that it would help the healing of her heart's wounds over the loss of Al Davis Now, years after, Bonnie Gla. may soon have the opportunity to resume the romance that was so rudely interrupted ns a result of Eugenia Kelly's gay fling at the niht life of New York i Rumori as to Mr, Haggin's matrimo- A nial future n case he and Bonnie Glass are divorced, have not yet assumed definite defi-nite shape. Perhaps he will resume his interest in Willette Kershaw, the famous beauty whose admirrr he was before he married Bonnie Glass. Miss Kershaw is in Lon-don Lon-don now and still unmarried. |