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Married. Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, lately divorced (TIME, July 15); to Carlotta Monterey, actress (The Hairy Ape), divorced wife of Illustrator Ralph Barton (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); in Paris. In a pre-nuptial contract, world-wandering Playwright O'Neill agreed to lease for 13 years the great Chateau de Plessis at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 25 miles from Tours, with a 600-acre game preserve. Miss Monterey also required installation of a roof garden, gymnasium, swimming pool...
...Henry was born in the same State as her husband, Iowa, some 50 years ago. When she was still in short dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals...
...Engineer Hoover went to Australia, sent an important cable, returned to Monterey, went (because of the hurry) to a Catholic priest, and sailed away to China with Lou Henry Hoover, are details familiar to all since the campaign. Mrs. Hoover moves steadily through his background from then on. At Tientsin during the Boxer Uprising, she nursed the wounded at the club, scooting past open corners of the compound on a bicycle while bullets whizzed above...
Engagement Reported. Playwright Eugene (Strange Interlude) O'Neill; to Danish-French actress Carlotta Monterey, onetime leading woman in Playwright O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. He cannot be married until a final decree of divorce has been granted to his second wife, Agnes Burton O'Neill, by whom he has two children, Una and Shane...
...church festival. A booking agent, impressed, hired her as ballerina for a theatrical troupe. Her family thought a convent would be better for her. After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month in Hal Roach comedies, then as Douglas Fair-banks's leading lady in The Gaucho. Brunette, she is five feet high, weighs 105 pounds, can play the ukelele, likes dancing...