Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 271, 25 September 1917 — Page 12

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Supreme Court Justice Hendrick Says That He Didn't, Signor Ciccolini and Other Indignant Men Say They Didn't, and So Remains One of

the Deepest Mysteries That Ever Infected the Life of a Pretty

Girl

Mrs. Robert E. Nolker,

Who Took an Interest in

"Baby"

Marlowe

By Geraldine Jewett ALBERTINE MARLOWE, pret- Louis Aero Club. They all shake ty and a protege of Mrs. Rob- their heads negatively. ert E. Nolker, was dancing in Each is quite sure that the slap was not his. Each is just as positive the latter's apartments in New York that he doesn't know whose slap it city, when somebody slapped her. was and tasn't the least ldea wnere Somebody Blapped "Baby" Mar- It originated. lowe! And yet, "Baby" Marlowe says she The echo of that slap reached to ought to know something about it, v a . . . x, inasmuch as she is the one who felt the dressing room, of one of the 4V. t. . . , , . , . . . the eting of the blow. She can't be greatest of Italian tenors and caused ?;t, x. IW w, very positive, however, as to the auinJZwnT5; rCnt w ttor of the offense, for when her w it street-went crash- testimony was COIlcluded it wa8 1 tho Jf t l T C ne fond that the questions were so it KnrlT i r-- , t63- , , worded " aa impossible to tell who It found its way to St Louto-and 6he really thought had done the thousands of feet in the air, a well deed nnn taWnS The courts are fairly cluttered with nlr n. the various ramifications of that slap.

bills. When I left the otel I took "Baby with me. Her education had been sadly neglected, so I started teaching her grammar, history and French. "After I got back to New. York a few months later, I saw a good deal of the little girl. She visited me at niy apartments nearly every day, and we went right on with the studying." Everything went along beautifully until a year and a half ago, when Mrs. Nolker, accompanied by "Baby" Marlowe, visited a hair-dressing parlor. The elder woman had just cashed a check for a thousand dollars. During the time she was there her money, so she said, had departed from her bag, and she charged that the little girl had taken it. Then the storm started. The trial of the girl lasted four days and she was acquitted. Following this action,- the father acting as

guardian for his child, employed at-

taat globe-trotting echo. In the Courts. Respecter neither of persons nor .v ,. . t . places, that echo trespassed on the There the charge of theft of

sacred portal of the law. and dinned ?100 against the girl by Mrs. Nol- torneys to brine: suit for S100 000 fnr

Into the ears of a justice of the su- keri ner exoneration; her subse- defamation of character, preme court of an imperial state. quent suit for $100,000 libel against "Baby" Marlowe's complete vindiThe temptation is keen to Bay that Mra- Nolker. cation came when it was announced It was a slap heard "round the Later, there followed the suit for that the defendant had made a reworld," and the truth is that the divorce brought by Mr. Nolker traction. Including a eettlement and reverberations of that untoward and against his wife. aii costs. The father stated that the inexplicable event were actually These three main issues have led suit was not a mercenary one, that heard in the sanctums of the erst- to many minor court Issues, until the the $2000 would not pay the costs while Russian nobility; even Ger- Question of who slapped "Baby" Mar- entailed by him in the case, but that many, France and Italy caught a few lowe ls so entangled In red tape and he was determined to gain complete of the sound waves generated by leal phraseology, that It is no won- vindication for his daughter. Which that slap. der that even the principal at the he did. . N M receiving end of the episode couldn't Coming now to the present year wiy.tery. testify clearly as to what actually with "Baby" Marlowe 16 vear? o'd' How old was Ann? Who hit Billy happened. with the past troubles apparently Patterson? Those questions were Picking up the threads of the story relegated to the dead but unforgets simple of solution as the kinder- as best one can from the mass of table past, the dark clouds portendgarten's first lesson in arithmetic, data, the story runs like this: ing a new storm slowly gather above compared with the all-absorbing, the Mrs. Robert E. Nolker, wife of the the household of the Nolkers and a ever-perplexing, the peace-destroy- president of the St. Louis Aero Club, new chapter of the exciting' career ing, mind-torturing problem that was in Paris 6hortly before the war of the pretty little protege ls writgrew out of that innocent little started, and while there met Alber- ten into the records. ' dance in that quiet little apartment tine Marlowe, then a girl about 13 Nolker entered suit against his one stilly evening: years old, and her mother. wife for divorce, charging that she Who slapped "Baby" Marlowe? Says Mra. Nolker: had thrown chairs at him, treated The tenor looks at the business "I felt very sorry for 'Baby as we him with the utmost contempt, was man, the business man looks at the called her, because she and her sarcastic about everything he said, supreme court justice, the justice mother eeemed to be hard up, and I that she called him a "Dutch boob," looks at the president of the St lent them money to pay-their hotel and committed other indiscretions.'

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Miss Albertine Maxlowe, Better Known as "Baby" Marlowe.

position slapped slap-ped.

stated that be had not her. had not seen her and hadn't the least idra

The suit In its ramifications, brought originally in St. Louis, spread out over so much territory

that the taking: of numerous deposi- who could have done it. tions from prominent persons in Signer Guido Ciccolini. the temvarious cities and circles became perp mental tenor, between ejaculanecessary. tions. is quite pure, in the most exIt peems that Mrs. Nolker had op- clamatory manner, that he doesn't eratic ambitions. Her European know the giver or the instigator of trip3 have been taken largpiy for th the blow and he is equally positive purpose of rounding out her musical that he never cooked macaroni in career. She had given several con- the apartments that night, as had corts in her apartments in New York, been intimated. followed occasionally by informal Mr. Nolker, who wasn't there at ('ancinu: partle?. and a number of the lime, doesn't know. Mrs. Nolker celebrities had taken part cither ' as is totally ignorant on the subject, guests or contributor;; to the pro- and besides she has a complaint to

gram. "Baby" Marlowe was iht star witness as to these concert.-. "Baby"' on lh Stand. She testified that Guido Ciccoliui. the Italian tenor, was a fvemient vis-

le mentioned Justice

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Hendrick of th" Now York r-uprenie court as r.Dion; tiioreshe had met there.' Hhe referred to Lou-Te!lcg--n, the actor, and husband of Geraldine Farrar and quite an array of foreign visitors of note. She involved a Russian count ' whoso name I can't recall."' Her story carried her into Wall Ftrcet, :nd sathered in its folds Burton S. Castles,' member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Cotton Exchange.

make on her own hook.

rfne doesn't know who slappei "Baby" Marlowe, and she is sure sh herself - hasn't been slapped, but "! am a young woman in the bloom of life, with no roses thrown at her only lemons. All my husband asks is that he be permitted to sing in court that new song, 'I got more than my share when I married you.' " And as the depositions pile up. out ' after another denying all knowledge of the "Flap that rang around the world." "Baby" Marlowe shrugs her shoiild'Ts as if to say: "If the courts can't find out we shall await the verdict of history for surely some Sherlock Holmes in flesh and blood will arise to meet the occasion. One can't get a slap without being slapped, and surely some

day I shall be able to point an accus-

Lustreless Bayonets TIIK comment has often been made that the great European conflict has destroyed all the glamour of war and now it may be

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u.... s ..o lnK flngPr at a haughty figure in a pome of the testimony was. it turned nmousinp and sav. out that an innocent and compara- ..That man 9,apped abv. M ttvely unimportant detail is now the iQwe " outstanding sensation of the entire series of dramatic occurrences. In

describing one of the concerts or rather the dance that followed she referred to the fact that she was dancing with Chester Norton, a young business man. While dancing, she was slapped. A Legal Puzzle.

It developed later that the ques- added, speaking more literally, that tions and answers were so framed it modern war methods are removing was impossible to tell who slapped all the lustre and glitter from war her. equipment. Just as the gaudy uniSo the court began asking: "Who forms have given way to those or flapped 'Baby' Marlowe?" dull color, so now the lustre of bayoThe various witnesses were ques- nets is to be destroyed. Honed. All of the guests that even- The authorities of the United ing were asked. The friends of Mr. States arrayhave decided that a comNolker, of Mrs. Nolker. and the pub- pany of marching soldiers with shinlie generally, have taken up the Ing steel blades on their rifles would query: "Who slapped 'Baby Mar- be too easy a target for hostile airlowe?" men and lorrg-range artillery. ConChester Norton said he was quite sequently, all bayonets. Including sure he did not. - those of the militia, are to be "blued" Chief Justice Hendrick in his de- by a special process.