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Before the uphill pull to Virginia City (pop.: 500) time was found for a mammoth parade headed by Errol Flynn in fancy pants and six shooters, and Mrs. John Hay ("Liz") Whitney bestriding her $20,000 silver-embossed saddle. Also in the riding was pretentious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Jack Kriendler, but his saddle cost only $5,000. Leo Carrillo rode his horse through the bar and lobby of the Riverside Hotel. Others rode everything from cayuses to Cadillacs, but kept between the packed lines of shouting, hooting, yippeeing sidewalk fans...
Married. Jayne Dunham Shadduck, 19, cinemactress, divorced wife of Playwright Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road); and Henry J. Topping Jr., 21, Manhattan socialite, heir to a $7,000,000 tin-plate fortune; in Armonk, N. Y., with Proprietor John K. ("Mooey-Mooey") Kriendler, of "Jack & Charlie's," Manhattan ex-speakeasy, as best man (TIME...
Most famed Manhattan speakeasy during Prohibition, nearly as successful a restaurant since Repeal is Jack & Charlie's 21 West 52nd St. Last week Hearstpaper readers were titillated, shocked or disgusted by a six-instalment tale of misconduct between Proprietor Jack Kriendler and Mrs. Dorothy ("Dolly") Gaddess, wife of Socialite-Banker Norris Barrymore Gaddess of Greenwich, Conn. Somehow Hearst's Evening Journal had got hold of the transcript of Husband Gaddess' divorce proceedings, which were heard by a horrified referee in private chambers. It included 443 dictaphone records of telephone conversations between Jack & Mrs. Gaddess. The referee considered...
...Gaddess had little trouble proving enough for divorce, but his demand for custody of their two children was sternly denied by the referee, who blamed the husband for having introduced his "heretofore blameless and refined wife" to Jack, "an unprepossessing fellow of low morals." Husband Gaddess filed appeal. Jack Kriendler nonchalantly went about his business of making his guests comfortable at 21. In the telephone booths appeared signs reading: "These wires aren't tapped." At the bar, wags loudly ordered Mooey cocktails...