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Married. Paul Whiteman, 41, bandmaster; and Margaret Livingston, 29, cinemactress; at Morrison, Colo. Jazzman Whiteman, who upon his divorce from wife No. 3, Dancer Vanda Hoff, declared: "Marriage is for the middle class, not for artists" (TIME, Feb. 9), posed with wife No. 4 beside a wedding gift-a pensive, plebeian...
Engaged. Paul Whitcman, jazz band leader; and Margaret Livingston, cinemactress. In February Mr. Whiteman was divorced from Vanda Hoff. dancer (TIME...
...information, if not through the newspapers, then through a new medium created for the purpose" (TIME, May 4). Fortnight later the Cincinnati newspapers began to skeletonize their radio programs to such terms as "Dialog" for Amos 'n Andy; "Commentator" for Lowell Thomas; "Dance Orchestra" for Paul Whiteman. Result: within a week appeared Radio Dial, an eight-page weekly selling for 5? and presenting news and programs of broadcasting. Three weeks ago Radio Dial declared a press...
Later he met Paul Whiteman, sang with his orchestra on the Leviathan. When not singing he blew into a French horn that had no notes. He became a popular night club entertainer in Manhattan, then in London where his pudgy, unimpressive physique was an even less noticeable handicap than it had been in the U. S. Bored with night clubs, he made three talking pictures which attracted scant notice, met and married Barbara Bennett, went to Hollywood where he accomplished nothing except learning to ride a horse...
Abnormal though the Whiteman case may be, it is a fact that the U. S. stands second only to Soviet Russia, with Austria a distant third, among the divorce-seeking nations. Figures for 1927 published last week by the German Government...