Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — Correcting A False And Unfavorable Statement. [ARTICLE]

Correcting A False And Unfavorable Statement.

A local newspaper published at the time of the Gene Greene and Elizabeth Kleissendorff marriage that Miss Bel Laßue, who played the pipe organ at the ceremony, was asked l y the groom to play a funeral march at the beginning of the ceremony and a rag-time selection at the close. This is denied by Miss Laßue, who states that Mr. Greene made no such request, that she selected the music herself for the opening and placed “Baccarole” for the wedding march. During the ceremony slfe played “The Venetian Love Song” and following It “My Persian Rose.” The latter selection was at the suggestion of Earle Reynolds. Sensational have been making quite light of the vaudeville singer because of the wholly false statement that a wedding dirge was played, which might be interpreted as very disrespectful to his wife, whose death occurred only last February. Earle Reynolds champions the cause of Mr. Greene in a spirited manner. He says that Greene found the Yahnke woman singing in a cabaret theatre and learned that she was a grass widow with a child to support. She had a very good voice and he decided to befriend her and did so by procuring some better paying engagements for her. That he went further and bought her a number of things and equipped her for • vaudeville engagements x that brought her a better income. He states that his attftude toward her was simply one of friendship and that he never had any intention of marrying her. Greene, he says, will procure the services of an able lawyer and fight the- breach of promise suit vigorously. y