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IMRS HAMMERSTEIN’S OWN STORY TODAY: the Mistress of a Tottering Fortune DEB: 18<>0 MODEL The Mouthful Beauty of Mr*. Oscar Hammerntein at tfie Age of 16 Is Revealed n fhi.i Picture I aken Wlien She VVa* a Choir burger in Syracuse, N. Y. When Oscar BEAUTIFUL MATRON G»arming Study of Mr*. Hamraer»trin »t the Height of Her Glory »» the Wife of 0»car the lmpre»ario. ami Mary Played Leaptrog; the Chanler-Cavalieri Episode; , j* the Inside of Stotesbury’s j| J*lHSis the fourth of If series of into leg tfi,. (turn i I! a 1:1m1 rsteiri in rh'r.'i she 1 oils of the triumph* anil. rUn i'torn of lift colorful life. l orn to tli“ .<*i . * of o o'’':uan vrjio f.i\’- nuuri'd n u etth' I 1111030 ptieh.ee then leas too l ife of tor most fatuous impresario of hit time. aiul ftnrtU* in..* found, penniless and forgotten, arifntig about fVeir Yorls amidst the * 10 - of \er former gloria*. By MRS. OSCAR HAMMi t II IN. TT is strange for me to ro:ih.:c I that once 1 was the tivistre - tot a great fortune. That was ■ t the very height of nvy inishe V career. Even then, however, t': • \ , lurking fears of financial d.a.t seemed to mingle with joyou surprises. At one time, nhen we had nearly 34,000,i 0 0 0 to our AT EASE Lina Cavalieri, the Opera Star, and Her Husband, Lucien Muratore, from a Snapshot Taken at Their Home at Beautiful Lake Como, Italy. credit, 1 said to Oscar: “Lei's get away from further worries and retire. There is nothing more in it for you. You have had your iiing. Let’s go somewhere and live happily.” His answer then, as always, was., "Not yet, Emma, not yet.” He could not realize that his consul,ling passion for the opera would eventually destroy his fortune. Once his. son, William, upbraided him bitterly for his waste fulness. In a letter he wrote : “All that money (S200,000 earped from the sale of property) has been wasted for the sake of one of your pet whims , (the; opera). These beau tiful inspirations-and ideas of vours look well enough on paper to you, but they invariably become flivvers when attempted and put to a practical test. This castle-in-tne-air method of busi ness seems, to grip you like an incurable disease and it certainly is expensive.” Still, the glamor of our lives wiped WHEN MONEY SPEAKS Above, 1* an Exact Reproduction of Oscar Hammerstein'* Personal Check for $5,217 and Below It Is a Telegram Offer to Alexander Pantages, Noted Theatre Magnate, from One of Oscar's Selling Agents, Offering Him the Aban doned Manhattan Opera House for $1,000,000. out these ever-rising fears and financial troubles. It was thrilling;, foi instance, to be so close to the drama surrounding Lina Cavaliert and Robert Winthrop Chanler. Mr. Hammerstein and 1 were its closest witnesses and 1 wish to tell for the first time the elemental reason of. this romance which caused the , fashionable worlds of Europe and America to quake. 1 met Mr. Chanler in Paris. He in vited me to his studio in the .Mont parnasse section for tea one day in 1927. There he confided to me he was still in love with Cavalieri, though front her viewpoint all feeling hjtd. fallen to ashes long before. Bob was the grandson ■ of. J.phn Jacob What Causes Ulcers of the Stomach By HERBERT L. HERM HENxOHN. (Physician and Surgeon) THE wall of the stomach consists of several layers of different kinds of tissue. The innermost layer, that is, the lining of the stomach, consists of a mucous membrane in which are located millions of small glands which secrete the gastric juice, The purpose of the juice is to TRgest the food and to kill most of the bacteria which enter with meals* The lining of the stomach rests upon a layer of loose connective tissue in which lie the larger blood vessels and principal nerves. The rest of-the wall consists of three layers of muscle, each arranged so that the fibers run in dif ferent directions the same as three-ply wood is constructed. By a gastric ulcer is meant the ex cavation which forms in the wall of the stomach as the result of the death of a part of the mucous membrane. The excavation may be shallow extending no deeper than the mucous membrane or it may extend down to the muscle layers and possibly through them. There are two principal types of ulcer, the acute and the chronic. The acute come on rather suddenly, whereas the chronic make their ap pearance rather slowly, and last foi an indefinitely long Deriod. How do these ulcers occur? By experimenta tion upon ^animals it has been dempn The Top Sketch (A) Chow* the Lining *>f the Stomach in W hich Three Acute l.lcer* Have Forme;!. 'Ifie Bottom Draw ing (B) Show* a t.hronic Ulcer, Healing at .V But I Mending to Another Fart at V. strafed that ulcers in the stomach, which have been produced artificially. Visually heal rapidly; unless an excess . amount of acid is present. The eon- < .elusions drawn were that the mucous memhrane of the stomach is subject to frequent abrasions during the process of digestion ivy the coarser particles of food, but that under ordinary con ditions they quickly heal without caus ing any apparent disturbance to the individual. It is believed that those -abrasion* may, however, lead to the formation of ulcers when there'1 is h continuous excess, of acid. Very ipany other theories have been adVafuM, but none have been confirmed universally. Anemia, obstructed blood supply to the stomach, and foci of infection (teeth, tonsils,, appendix, etc.) have all shared the blame for the appearance of gao tric ulcers. The acute ulcers are Usually found in groups of two, three, or more. They are small, about the size of a pea to that of a dime, with clean-cut edges. The floor of the ulcer is smooth. The walls are terraced, that is, each layer is less affected than the one'’above it making the ulcer cone-shaped. The ulcer may hurt' its way to any depth. If the blood vessels are exposed a hemmorrbage follow*?, but is usually not very severe. If the entire wall of the stomach '>3eaten through, peritonitis may result with serious consequences The ehrotxic type of ulcer usually ap pears singly. It is most frequently seen near that part of tjje stomach which empties into the intestine. These ulcers are u-ually large averaging £rv era! inches in diameter.- The edges are irregular. The floor of the ulcer may be either smooth or scarred. The chronic ulcer nt*iy persist for years, healing in fine part, extending n all ot her. traveling snake-fashion. A chrome ulcer Xs less likely to perforate than an acute one. but the danger of a hemorrhage is-somewhat greater. CupyriiRt, JftSB. It.'.efXhit'''Ftrstur® Hcrt Astor, founder of lnt.e ei America's ’ most patrician fortune,-. We w ho A new l.a (Javaiieri intimately regarded her as a fair and fickle prima donna. I do not think La Cavalier! loved tho theikish ('hauler, hut his social linea ments gratified her vanity and her as pirations. For Lina had hern snubbed by New York’.; hriii mantle. She hcenmo the bride of Boh Chanler, but society s grand dames sniffed the air superciliously. The marriage was noted for its brevity. One of La Cava liori’s ironic gestures of revenge, she thought, was to leave her husband. I’m sure it was because she wanted to give society the frigid shoulder. Bob Chanler, on the other hand, did not reckon on his severest critic—his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, sup posedly suffering from a form of hal lucinations. It was when John heard of the break-up of his brother’s mar* riage, with a reported $100,000 settle ment to Li^a, that he sent' him a tele gram whose contents were destined to become fapiou-, It read: “Who’s looney now What also, .helped to lighten the burden <>/ opr Worries was Oscar's urt fettered 'sense of humor. He had a way of vesting, his temperament in play,-as Mary (garden, well knows. Once, during rehears^ he threw his hat at Mary and smacked her on the head in good-natured fashion. However, the -mack was such a resounding one that Mary wag never quite sure whether it really was intended to he good-natured. On one other occasion, while his as sistants were striving hard to direct re hearsals. Oscar, in his shirt -leaves, with his hat at a rakish collegiate angle, played leap frog with Mary, to the as tonishment and amusement of singers, orchestra players and lookers-on. There was another time, l remember, wlieh Oscar w'ps fighting against the threatened collapse of his fortune, that'he displayed his flashes of humor. He was standing in the lobby of the Victoria Theatre, now the ■ Uiaho. in Times Square. An actor of the ham variety approached hhn. The actor told my husband he had found it so tough getting booked that he had decided to commit hari-kari. “You put on great freak attractions here, don’t you?" asked the Thespian, and then he proceeded* to outline this . plan: “I’ll put on a shooting act for you for a thousand dollars. I’ll do it With the understanding that you'll pay the thonev to my wife. At the end of the Ml I'll Wow- my brains out -see?" Oscar puffed on his cigar and re garded the actor solemnly. “That’s a great act,” ho said at last, “You’d probably bring down the house. Hut what could you do for an encore?” In the’midst of all his worries arfd busy- dealings with actors and -•ingers h - had time 10 be tender ami kind. For. instance, I treasure a letter w ritten to me while 1 was confined to Lying In Hospital in New York. The- doctors said, no one was. to -ae ni<* for n week and it made my husband desperate. la. Ink., tjieut' UrJUiu BU‘ Ro^tTed. Reefnt Photo of Mr*. r.« tciii Wearing Some of Bp Her Few ft Remain* m »I1R Jewel*. JUST PLAY PUL 'During: one 0»c«r, in *fiirt«leeve«, , i hi# hut ut m < «*“*<» collegiate angle, played leapfrog »vith Mary tiugdi, to the astonishment und amusement of the (infer#, orchestra player# and lookers-on.” performances he would discontinue. Mr. Ntotesbury wit's surprised and chagrined at Oscar's intention to close the opera. He declared he would not tWills of permitting: the opera house to close and promised my husband to make up for any losses he suffered. O ear said he asked -Mr. S totes bury whether It was his wish that he make public announcement of the contin uance of grand opera through the gen eimity of the Philadelphia million aire. "He said,'' Oscar’s letter continues, 'tw wished me to do so, providing 1 would do so in a delicate way, and I fold him I would <!<» that and he could / leave it to my judgment. Mr. Stotes ; bury gave me $40,090 t o cover the deficit of the remainder of the season. During one of the performances I made public acknowledgment from the stage to the audience that it was through the largesse of Mr. Stotes bury that the opera house had been kept open and that Philadelphia could be mighty proud of such a citizen. “The newspapers hailed Mr, Stote* bury a'' a savior of the arts. At no time diil he intimate that the news paper! were incorrect in their com ments nil his philanthropy. “.Shortly after the closing of the Philadelphia opera season l came to Europe . . When L fftired I agreed to sell the Philadelphia opera house to Mr. Stotesbury. After the execution of the BEAT THE DRUM! E, T. Stoje. hury, tho Wealthy, 80-Y ear<OI<i Philadelphia Financier, Rattle* th* Stick* with the Old Vigor, The Story of Hi. “Loan' to Oscar D Told on This Fag«. "1 can't, help Jetting you have these few lines,” lie wrote. "1 imagine you are absolutely ludplcss. Keep up courage* Emma, you'll <oon ho well and continence life anew. 1 am here in the office and machine hop ami cigar shop fighting off <1* prcssioit. When you get well and come hack, you must have company, go uut more and have diversion. Don’t worry. Got up, Emma; I want to see you. i want you to pun me I with me—Anything nut this emp y apart m nt—empty without you.-—Your Oscar.” A more important letter, so far as the public is con%jy#fd, is that which deals with K<1 ward T Stotesbury, part ner in I’. .Morgan * Company, and an arbiter of artistic elegance and Vocial domination, narticuar.lv in Phila delphia. In this letter, written from l.iindon, Omar nride me his private am. svver to the claim of Mr. Stotesbury that lie loaned my husband f 10,000, The letter from Oscar is very long, but 1 can suinntarv e it thusly: li 190.S he opined the Philadelphia Opera llmt'.;, built at an ££pensV of more than a million dollars " The next year he announced the opera was being.op erated at a loss and that uni-.- ade quate guarantee* were g!von for his i r~ A HERO SPEAKS Autographed Photograph to Mr*. Hammer*tein from Sergeant Mike Donaldaon, the Most Decorated Hero of the World War. He I* Shown Wearing Only a Few of Hi* Medal*. Acroa* the Photo He Has Written an Expression of Hi* Friend ship for Mr*. Haminerstein. contract with Mr. Stotesbury there ap peared in some American newspaper an item concerning Mr. Stotesbury and one of my former printa donnas. I am advised that Mr. Stotesbury was very much annoyed over the publication of this article. And although I was not at all responsible he seemed to believa (hat 1 was. “It was after the appearance of this supposedly irritating story that my former lord bountilul apparently de cided that the $40,000 was a loan to me in my Philadelphia opera dilemma. I shall not pay him back one cent of it. I. top, haw a point of honor at stake.” Thus Oscar’s letter. There was a court action concerning the $40,000, but it w as settled out of court. * (.To Be Continued.)
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