Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jaime Martinez Del Rio, divorced husband of Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio (Ramona); from blood poisoning; in Berlin...
...incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers to elope with her. Because she loved him, Lily Christine had married a smart model of English manhood, penniless gambler, cricketer, master of many mistresses. Lily Christine ignored these "pieces of nonsense," supplied her "old carthorse" husband with a constant friendship...
Published almost instantly in the papers of two continents, these and other messages from Dolores Del Rio, screen star, in Hollywood, to her divorced husband, Jaime, ill in Berlin, did not particularly impress a U. S. public accustomed to accept the quasi-private quarrels and love-making of picture people with the same scepticism usually roused by their screen depictions of the same kind of thing...
Three months ago in Paris Miss Del Rio asked her husband if she could come and see him; after that they wrote to each other, the actress finally-"Keep up your courage, darling. I don't forget you in my heart. You must get well. I love you, I love you."-a message (it was the one the sick man did not live to read) suggesting once more the odd fact that all emotions of a certain sort, whether real or assumed, can be expressed only in the language of subtitles...
...besieged by high school girls, who found her graciously willing to autograph their programs. Harold F. McCormick, Chicago multimillionaire, who is the husband of the artist, was in the group...