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Olive Thomas: Marriage
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The home of Mrs. Daisy Thomas of Machias was the scene of a quiet wedding Saturday evening, February 14, when her daughter, Lorus Olive, was untied in marriage to Edward M. Gemmer, of Monroe. The marriage service was read by the Rev. W.E. Henry of Everett. The bridal party descended the stairs as the "Bridal Song" from Lohengrin was played by Miss Mabel Thomas, the bride's sister, and took their places beneath a large white bell and canopy of evergreens, which decorated a corner of the room. The bride and groom were attended by the bride's sister, Amy Lotus Thomas and the groom's brother, Fred Gemmer. The bride wore a dainty gown of cream georgette crepe over cream satin, with veil of silk net, and carried a shower bouquet of pink brides rose, white freesias, sweet peas and asparagus fern.
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Thomas was born Oliva R. Duffy[2] though sometimes she claimed her birth name was Oliveretta Elaine Duffy. Most who knew her called her "Ollie." She was born into a working class family in the Pittsburgh area town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania.[2] Her father died when she was young and, due to the strained financial situation, she was forced to leave school to help support her mother and two younger brothers, James and Williams. In April 1911, at the age of 16, she married Bernard Krugh Thomas in McKees Rocks, another small mill town. During the two year marriage, she reportedly worked as a clerk in Kaufman's department store in Pittsburgh. After her divorce, she went to stay with a family member in New York City where she found work in a Harlem department store.
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If Olive did kill herself, it was a most uncharacteristic act. Her recently released film, "The Flapper," with her in the title role, was a box office success. She was earning $3000 a week, about what she and her first husband would have earned together in a year if she had stayed in western Pennsylvania. She was a star. True, her marriage was not going well. She might have decided that Jack's trip to London, just as their "honeymoon" in Paris was supposed to begin, was the last straw, although one doubts she used the word "abhorrent" in telling him.
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