Sad Aftermath to the Baking
Powder King's Party
at the Seashore
ROMANCE
PROBLEMS
REAL PEOPLE
RICH PLAYBOY.
John A. Ho*|lind,
"Baking Powder King,"
Pictured Againrt a
Fanciful Background
Giving an Impreoion
af His Atlantic City
Party.
Analysed by
Ruth Morris.
JOHN J. HOAG
LAND, famou
''Bakins Powder
King,” whose career
has been a source of
astonishment, interest
and amusement to the
New York theatrical
ana society worms, nas uuutu yet anotner
high-geared chapter to his already
crowded life.
The latest installment became known
when Mrs. Deulah Troy, a former New
York stenographer, stated her intention
of bringing suit against the millionaire,
charging assault artd defamation of char
acter.
Mrs. Troy claimed that, while being
driven to her hotel in Atlantic City after
t.- Having attended a night-club party as
FToagland’s truest, the “Baking Powder
,>■ King" pummeled and. punched h-’r and
finally threw her oinfceremuniou.-ly out of
a takicab.
And so the latesiiHoagiand melodrama
goes along to tSPwne of bruises, a pos
sible broken noie, injured vocal chord?
and a threatened $500,000 suit.
Immediately after the occurrence,
iloagland retired into silence and could
not be located either in Atlantic City
or New York. But jvirs. Troy, r^cupera
ting at her suite at the Alatnac Hotel,
New York City, voiced £hat she would
have a warrant issued for his arrest.
Mrs. Troy, who declared she had fre
quently been the guest of Hoagland at
parties in his palatial residence in Scar?
dale, weakly whispered, during a recent
'nterview. that arrangements had been
made to start
ait against the'
wealthy play
bov.
“Oh.” ahe
“aid. “I couldn’t
begin to tell
you the names
he railed nie
just before lie
knocked me un
conscious.
"I had a war
rant issuued for
his arrest
in Atlantic City, anri t shall get another
one in New York. They couldn’t find him
there. I’m going to see to it that he is
ourtished for tho attack on me."
According to Mrs. Troy, the multi
millionaire nati arranged for a party at
the Ritz-Carlton, in Atlantic City, at
which she was one of the invited guests.
Later, at a gay night club, host and guests
frolicked to the tune of blaring jazz and
liquid and laughter. There wasn’t even
a hint of disspntion among the joyous,
holiday-making crowd.
But came tiie wearying hour of 4 a. m
When, spontaneity reduced to the flat
formula of late joy-making, the party
broke up, aipi ;Mr. Hpagland started on
the taxi-ride that was to crash right into
tiie news.
Tiiis is not the first time that ■’Johnny”
Uoagland has figured on the front pages.
If is carter has been of the chaotic variety
that inspired interest and speculation—
his courtships; divorces and law suits be
ing closely interwoven with the glitter of
Broadway and the gleam of society.
Back in the days when, as a dashing
young blade, he drove his coach and foui
through the park, his name was con
sta; 'ly, in the public eye in connection
with some boyish escapade.
On pne occasion, after a gala stag din
Heart Throbs of d Bride-to-be
By MARY DOUGHERTY
PATSY was aw Willy displeased because her boy friend, Jimmy, appeared at
her home one evening a little unsteady from too many cocktails She rushed
him out into the night air before her parents appeared and .when the young
couple went into the street she gave vent to her feelings She told Jimmy that
she was not going to stand for his antics any longer and was going to start
having dates with other boys Jimmy, as Jealous a swain as ever blacked a rival a
eye, accused her of playing favorites with a lad turned Craig, whom he hated,
and said that he would give Craig a beating at the first opportunity The night
air seemed to make him more belligerent instead of sobering him and Hatsy
grew alarmed when Jimmy declared with vehemence that he would knocK ms
rival cold.”
,✓^^-0-11, Jmips, dear you wouldn't
’ ( 1 do that, would you? What
for?”
"I’ll tell you what for. I v*ant that
guy to learn he’s got to stay away from
me, that’s what.”
‘‘Stay’away from yoj, Jimps? I don’t
in the least know what you mean. I’m
»h« one that’s going to lunch."
'listen here, Pitts, can all that stulT.
Vou know we’re engaged, and I’ve gut a
right to say who you’re going out with.
You know all that talk the other night
was the bunk. You knew 1 was just
sore. I didn’t mean I wanted to break
our engagement ... I was just talking to
you tor your own goou. You know,
I’ve got to take cure of you, to
protect you. Gee, Patts, I couldn’t give
you up now for anything in the world.
I’ll'tell you, Sweetheart, I’ve been out of
my head all day.”
"But, Jiinpsie, dear, a girl can’t be en
gaged without a ring, and you took mine
last night. Honest, I just feel as if that
finger was cut off . .
"Well, dearest, sweetest thing in the
world, you won’t have to feel that way
any longer. I’ve got it right here. Just
took it down to the jeweler’s and had
"forever and ever more” engraved tn it.
7 nought it’d last longer with t£et,”
dariing, s*\\eetheait, I'm p,»y
I could cry. I jiist love you to death
and dearest heart in the world. 1 m ^0111^
to.” ......
“That’s the way to talk. Now, lets
forget all these lights we’ve. been having.
Lets talk . . . you know, about other
things.”
“Then I can awoke, if 1 want to. Jimp
sie, dear?”
“Darling, you can do anything you
want, if you’ll just stick.”
“All right, then, Jimmie, just for that
I’tn never going to want to do anything
vou don't want me to do.”
“Well, dear, we’ll see,” This from
Jimmy, with the air of one being con
descendingly generous.
"Oh, gee. I forgot all about that ice
cream your mother wanted us to bring in.
She’s probably having a tit.”
“Oil, well, c’mon, let’s keep on for
getting. When she sees me with my ring
back she'll be so excited she won’t even
think about it. You know. Jimpsie, Mum
mis i.- almost as crazy about you a? 1 am
Sometimes she makes me jealous. Didn't
vou see the way she got ua out before
Dad saw you?”
“She’s a great acout, Pat . . I hope
You make as wonderful a mother aa she
is.”
“Oh-o-b, Jimgie, imagine us with
babies!”
n
s^; ncr party, he and his guests withdrew
to a box at the yasino Theatre, where
Frank Moulan and his wife, Maude
I illian Berri, were entertaining crowd*
nightly in “The Sultan of Sulu.” The
celebrants, taken with Miss Berri’s beauty
and ignorant of the fact that she was
Moulan’s wife, evidenced their udmiration
by tossing tributes of American Beauties
onto the satge whenever the leading lady
appeared.
That a full-sized stein, fortunately
empty, accompanied one of these flying
gifts and missed Miss Berri’s lovely head
by only an inch was an accident that Mr.
Iioagland spent weeks in explaining—
publicly as well as to 31 r. Moulan’s
attorneys.
Of course, everyone speculated, at the
time, upon thelucky Kiri who would wed
the Baking Rgfrfrer King and his millions.
Many possdpnities were named among
the favor|f of the stage and society,
but “Johnny” astonished everyone by
dashing over to Paris to woo and win
Miss Grace Weir, former church singer
than studying in Faris.
For a time they were blissfully happy,
but “Johnny,” so his bride claimed, was
not content with domestic quietude
There was the inevitable divorce in 1910.
with IJoagland making a voluntary
financial settlement on his grass-widow
who has since been married to and di
vorced from Arthur Hammerstein, famous
theatrical producer.
Then came the three-year courtship
which made Hoagland famous up and
down Broadway One evening, at the
“Jardin de DaftSe,'” his eye ffifl brt
“Billie” Allen, ex-Follies beauty, who
with f.hfl-fanioii* Bahaatian was pomilfiriz
ing the jmtricacTes of the MW dance, the
glanS? ^ufej ' W^mpalsive
millionaire deep in love.
“Thia,”|h(Ldeclared, “is the girl who
should hafedkeaii tti*'fTrsV~STrs. Hoag*
land”-^»nte«ntaiKhtway set about con
vincing nePTfittt'most. Iiggome tho
second. ■■
The Former
Mr..
Hoeglend
("Billie”
Allen, of
the Follie.)
Mrs. Beulah Troy, Former N
RECUPERATING,
Y. Stenographer, Occupying . Hospital Bed After She Had Sustained
Various Injuries.
Hut Miss Allen, it appeared, was not
to be won so easily. Her apprenticeship
on Broadway had embraced a number of
minor theatrical parts and, now that she
had acquired a certain amount of fame,
she had no intention of surrendering it
to the fireside obligations.
But Hoagtand was persistent. He lit
erally followed Miss Allen all over New
Vork. Was she dining with a rival?
lloagland somehow managed to learn of
her intended whereabouts and obtained a
table next to hers, where he poured out
his love in ardent, wistful pnrases and
glances. Twice he succeeded in slipping
a huge diamond ring on the significant
finger, and twice some whim of the dan
cer’s shipped it off again. But persistence
was finally rewarded.
One day the much-talked of Couple
slipped off to Greenwich. Conn., with a
wedding party that included the well
known dressmaker, Mme. Frances. A
honeymoon of a year followed in Europe
and then, upon her return to New York
Miss Allen astonished everyone—her hus
band included—with the announcement
that ehe intended to return to the stage,
opening in Charles Dillingham’s “The
Century Girl.”
What, eveD’f'nc wondered, would trie
•‘Bnkinjr Powder King” nay to that?
He aaid very little, but made it quite
evident that he was more surprised than
pleased. Soon when the couple estah
tished separate residences, she at Broad
way and Eighty-eighth Street, and he at
!• ifty-third Street and Fifth Avenue, it'
became quite clear that there had been a
definite rift,
Mias Allen iuter explained that, while
oer husbnnd chose Broadway as his
ifficial playground, he was essentially
of the aristocracy and had expected her
to shun her White Light friends. And
'his she finally rofused to do,
Hougland straightway retaliated by
refusing1 to be responsible for the debts
of hia beautiful young wife. There was
n matter of $14,000 owed to an interior
" decorator on appointments for the mag
nificent Allen apartment, and a trifle of.
$11,000 owed to a widely-known dress
maker, not to mention the incidental ex
penses that had accumulated from Mrs
Iloagland’a elongated shopping tours.
This refusal came on top of his state
ment of a few years previous, namely:
“Anything1 my little girl wants ah* can
have. I’LL pay the bills.”
And until “Billie" manifested her de
sire to return to the stage Hoagland hu
mored her every whim. Furthermore,
he accentuated his affection for her by
furnishing a magnificent Long Island
home, the bed-room—even the ceiling—
of which was tinted with mural paintings
of his wife in draped and undgaped poses
Hut “Billie” insisted on returning to
the stage and his devotion altered.
Later a reconciliation and a settlement
of debt,* were rumored. “Billie” Allen
Hoagland, leaving on a prolonged tour of
the Orient, stated that she" had fjuifc the
stage1 forever, and Hoagland, thrilled by
this news, started furnishing palatial
apartments for the return of his lady
love. It was said that, there were 14-karat
gold-plated faucets in the bathroom ad
joining the sumptuous boudoir that Hoag
land had prepared, but to which Miss Al
len never returned.
Now, as a climax to this hectic caretST?
comes the announcement of the latest
escapade of the “Baking Powder King.”
What, the world again wonders, will be
the. outcome of his play bov tangles?
The Amazing Ice Industry—Now Wet, Now Dry
MODERN invention Ua3 put its stamp
on the ice industry. Sixty years
ago. “ice" meant only one thing
—water frozen- by the hand of nature
Today it may mean anything frdm the
naturally frozen article to little cubes
electrically made, or it may not mean ice
at all. as it is corpmonly known. The latest
in ice is dry. Instead of solid water, it is
••olid gas—carbon dioxide.
In 1869. there were but three ice. plants
m the country, and their total output
was less than thirty tons per lay. Today,
the industry boasts of 6,300 nlants. with
a daily production capacity of about
■iOO.UOO tons; this in addition to the
UJ.’OOO.OOO tons of natural ice cut annu
ally.
The first revolution in the refrigerating
tiduslry began with the invention of the
first ice machine in 1870. Ice manufac
luring plants immediately sprang up
The next big leap was in 1914. with
the invention of electric refrigerators
that can make ice in voui own home. It
took ten years for the householder to be
come acquainted with this new wonder,
but since 1924 the big ambition of mil
lions of people has been to own such
an implement.
The United States Bureau of Commerce
raa estimated that this year will see the
production of from 250.000 to 450,000
units of electric refrigerators in the do
mestic field.
And now cornea dry ice. bringing one
more revolution. The carbon dioxide gas
is first liquefied by means of enormous
pressure. This is run through a coil
around a large expansion chamber. The
liquid, so cooled, is then allowed suddenly
to expand through spray nozzles. A snow
•Mortn of solid carbon dioxide begins to
fall immediately. By means of hydraulic
presses of about 3.000 pounds to the
square inch the fine white snow is molded
into solid cakes. They look like beautiful,
uazzling white blocks of closely packed
snow. But they are far colder than nat
ural snow and are more efficient than
water ice.
Dry ice, with a temperature of 114
degrees below zero Fahrenheit, is fifteen
times as efficient as old-fash
ioned wet ice.
Dry ice owes its rapidly in
creasing use to its extreme
coldness, to the compactness that
enables it to accompany parcel
post packages, picnic bask, ts,
etc., .and to the fact that when
it melts it melts air. and not
water.
her truck deliveries of ice
cream, and for use in refrigerat
ing cars transporting fruits, fish,
and all perishable foods it is in
valuable.
The amount of r. frigerating
«pace saved is tremendous. For
merly in order to send five-gal
lon cafre of ice cream from
New Yomto-the Uerkshires, for example,
sixty pounds of wet ice and twelve pounds
;f rock eatt were required Today the
same amount of ice cream can be sent
by packing it in a fairly light container
with but four pounds of dry ice.
CHINESE
ICE-MAN.
Ha !•
Hauling lea
Which Hai
Just Baan
Cut from tbs
Frozen
Rivara About
“Viola*
Town” of
Peking.
Whet Do You Know
About Fishes?
i. H hy do must deep-sea fishes never
come into the shallows near the coast f
- W'liat fishes born in rivers, go out to
sea to growl
3. What dsh thrives frozen in tccT
r What fish i 1 famous for its ability to
leap C'/J tcater falls?
0 What species of trout go out to seat
ti What fierce fish eats ducks)
7 What fish is considered the longest
livedy
3 What fish is the smallest m the. world}
AySWERS.
1. Because they must have heavy
r>ressur« of water on their bodies or
-hay will die
2. Salmon. Eggs are hatched in river
beds, the fish swims out to sea and re
turns to the river bed to spawn.
3. Carp can be frozen solid in ice and
taken from one side of the world to the
other alive.
•i. A large-sized salmon cA clear a
rise of sis or eight feet in one bound.
5. Sea-trout and bull trout. The others
remain all their lives in fresh water.
6. The pike will eat rats, ducks, water
hens. young geese, frogs, snakes and
even its own family.
7. The carp. There are some in ex
istence today believed to be more than
120 yeare old.
8. The bitterling, the female of which
is only 1 1-2 inches in length.
MADE IN THE
HOME.
fmy Cubes of Ice
Frozen in the Electric Refrigerators Now
Accesribie to Every
Modem Residence.
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