Married. Alfred J. Kvale, saxophone player and son of the Rev. O. J. Kvale (who defeated Andrew J. Volstead in the Congressional election in Minnesota last Fall), to Ethel Virginia ("Billie") Stanfield, former Follies actress, at Crown Point, Ind., an elopement. Representative Kvale bestowed his paternal blessing Monday, Jun. 11, 1923 (Time Magazine - submitted by K. Torp)
Married.—Rodolfo Guglielmo, 27, (stage name, Rodolph Valentino) to Winifred Hudnut, at Crown Point, Ind. They were previously married in Mexico; the second marriage took place in order to make the union legal in California where Mr. Guglielmo was divorced Saturday, Mar. 24, 1923 (Time Magazine - submitted by K. Torp)
Married. Gordon C. Thorne, 36, thrice-married son of the late W. C. Thorne, (early partner of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., Chicago mail order house); and a Mrs. Molin Bolin, 25, registered nurse, of Hammond, Ind.; in Crown Point, Ind (Time Magazine, Monday, Mar. 04, 1929)
Married. George Moran, blackface comedian, member of the team of Moran & Mack ("Two Black Crows"); to Dancer Claire White; at Crown Point, Ind. (Time Magazine, Monday, Mar. 26, 1928 )
Married. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 64, Negro publisher of the Chicago Defender and Abbott's Monthly (only Negro fiction magazine) ; and Edna Brown Denison, 43, widow of the late Col. Franklin Augustus Denison, commander of the 370th Infantry ("The Black Devils'') during the War, sole Negro to take a regiment abroad; in Crown Point, Ind. Helen Thornton Abbott last year divorced her publisher husband after unsuccessfully attempting to have him removed from the Defender's management, charging he was letting the paper go to ruin (TIME, June 26, 1933).
(Time Magazine, Monday, Aug. 20, 1934 - submitted by K. Torp)
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