1927 Peaches Browning DIVORCE TRIAL White Plains NY NEWSPAPER Vaudeville Actress

Description: WHITE PLAINS RECORDTHE TRUE STORY OF THE SENSATIONAL PEACHES-DADDY BROWNING DIVORCE TRAIL AS TOLD FROM THE WITNESS STAND Editorial from the Toledo News- Bee Very RARE 35 cent newspaper special report on the sensational divorce case of the child bride and future vaudeville actress, Peaches Browning. Some of the testimony includes Peaches herself, Carolyn Heenan (Peaches' mother), Edward West "Daddy" Browning (her husband), Dr. George A. Blakeslee (New York City mental health), Catherine Mayer, Roman Androwsky (National Insurance Company). Measures 9.25" x 12" Peaches Browning (born Frances Belle Heenan; June 23, 1910 – August 23, 1956), was an American actress.[1] She was married to New York City real estate developer Edward West "Daddy" Browning (October 16, 1874 – October 12, 1934), when she was 15 and he was 51. Biography Browning and Heenan met at a sorority dance on the evening of March 5, 1926, at the Hotel McAlpin and immediately began a very public courtship, despite the difference in their ages. Browning was 51, and Heenan was 15. Browning, who reveled in publicity, paraded Heenan in front of the paparazzi cameras as he lavished her with expensive gifts (spending $1000 a day on shopping trips) and took her to New York's finest restaurants in his distinctive peacock blue Rolls-Royce automobile. On April 10, 1926, mere weeks after they met, Peaches and "Daddy" were wed in the village of Cold Spring, New York, far from media scrutiny. Both Peaches' father and her mother gave their permission for the marriage, which took place in part to thwart a campaign by Vincent Pisarra of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to halt their relationship.[citation needed] Peaches was the victim of an acid attack shortly before her wedding from an unidentified perpetrator. The White Plains, New York, trial drew intense coverage by New York City tabloid newspapers such as the New York Daily News, the rival New York Daily Mirror and the more disreputable New York Graphic, which published a series of notorious composographs of the couple. The story was covered in depth by the national newspapers, from the tabloids to The New York Times and the couple became well known in U.S. popular culture of the time. Their romance is referenced in the 1927 Gershwin musical comedy Funny Face and F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Love Boat", published the same year. On October 2, 1926, Peaches and her mother loaded up their belongings and left the marital residence at the Kew Gardens Inn. Under New York law at the time, divorce was only possible if one party admitted adultery, so Peaches tried to obtain a legal separation, claiming cruelty. Among the notable aspects of the case were Peaches' allegations of odd behavior by her husband, including the fact that he kept a honking African goose in their bedroom. The phrase "Don't be a goof," which Daddy allegedly used as an insult to Peaches, came into national vogue, and later turned up in the lyrics of the title song from the 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical comedy On Your Toes. The judge accepted Daddy's version of the facts, ruling that Peaches had abandoned her husband without cause, and permitted him a legal separation without any obligation to pay alimony. Peaches remained legally married to Browning until his death from a brain hemorrhage. She went on to have and divorced three more husbands. She also had an affair with Milton Berle. Peaches' notoriety gained her a career in vaudeville. She was managed by Marvin Welt (1883–1953), one of the first theatrical agents to demand a percentage of total ticket sales for some of his clients. She died at New York Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, on August 23, 1956, at age 46, after slipping in the bathroom at her apartment. She was buried in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Edward West “Daddy” Browning American Folk Figure, Businessman. A highly successful millionaire real estate magnate. Established himself, in his early years, as purchasing, owning and building many fine buildings in New York City. As a young man, Edward graduated from Columbia University in New York City and toured Europe. he was an amazing artist and drew many cartoons and drawings as amusement for his friends and family. In the early 1900's went into the real estate business with his father. In the early years of his business, he had built 3 white marble buildings on the Upper West Side, that are preserved to this day, which sport his initials EWB and family crest in the corners. In 1915 Edward married Nelle Adele Lowen of New York City and they adopted 2 young girls. They had a palatial home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan which occupied the two top floors of an apartment building he owned with a roof garden and a pond with a row boat. Their home had 7 rooms of Chinese imported furnishings, a music room with an exotic bird aviary, a large dining room with an Italian fountain several imported bedroom furnishings and servants' quarters. It was pictured in many newspapers and magazines. Their marriage ended in divorce in Paris in 1924. Much of the furnishings of their home he sold off. Edward had sponsored a baseball team and a college fund for Native Americans. He enjoyed giving gifts out to young children at Christmas time. He later become known for his controversial attempt to adopt another young girl, Mary Loise Spas, who turned out to be an adult and the adoption was annulled. After which in 1926 he met and married a 15-year-old Frances Belle Heenan, with the consent of her parents, he was 52. This became the center of a hugely sensational scandal in the 1920s, especially the separation trial. The news media at the time dubbed her "Peaches" to his "Daddy" (a nicknamed he received early in life by requesting to adopt a young girl to be a companion to her daughter Dorothy). He had two chauffeured peacock blue Rolls-Royces with his family's coat of arms on the side. In 1934, he saw his daughter, Dorothy married in New York City. He died later that same year. After his death his multimillion-dollar real estate empire went through several years of court battles with claimants to his estate. Keep an eye on my current and upcoming auctions that will feature additional vintage museum quality items. a daguerreotype, tintype, real photo postcard and CDV collection. 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