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Hart Is Latest of Stars te Be Held
Up as Example of Failure of Idels
te Make Geed as Simple Spouses
"TRY AGAIN" SEEMS MOTTO
AS REMARRIAGE FOLLOWS
GRANTING OF SEPARATION
"Deug, " "Our Mary, "Blanche Sweet
and Rudy, the ''Perfect Lever," All
Have Registered "Here" in Divorce
Courts After Shattered Romances
JS marriage among mevie stars like a bull In love's china shop?
Ik marriasrc among the darlings of the silver screen like a 110-neund
deacon nt the mercy of a band of particularly reckless bandits 7
Whichever of these questions ought te be affirmatively answered,
the close-up clinch that inevitably decorates the end of a romantic Ave-.
rtcler would seem te be only an irenic symbol of the hope, of the dreams
that toniehow rarely ceme true in the actual lives of our gallant and
charming make-believes.
Fer of all the sad things in this world the course of leve that won't
run smooth for our heroes and heroines except in pictures is the most
lamentably sad.
New comes Bill Hart, big two-gun
Bill, with his stone face and his sub
stantial right arm, te gaze at the
tragic ruins of his love-world with a
wistful eye. Bill Hart, alias "Cream
Puff"! What a brief life for a real
ver, what an unhappy ending for
this man of romance!
Clese beside him comes Blanche
Eweet, of timeless charm, looking
, dully at the tatters of her own
dream-world. And new Gleria
Bwansen, purple Gleria, with another
romance like a peer tern drcs"s, that
once was crisp and lovely.
Film Romances Flicker
Out as Rapidly as a Play
"It docs net take a woman six
days te create a world for any man,"
said a philosopher once. He might
have added that a man is no slouch
either at world building for a
woman.
Toe, he neglected te say, perhaps
because it is se obvious, that both
together they can wreck a world or
a couple of worlds in even less time
than six days.
And this making and shattering of
wet Ids, in mere senses than one,
leems te have become a prime activ
ity in the private as well as public
life of most movie stars.
Is it temperament that won't be
handmaiden te love? Is it sudden
success? Is it public adulation that
transforms these men and women of
the screen into little gods which
they themselves worship? Is it leve
of career, ever against love of mar
riage? Petitions illed in divorce courts
tell very little after all. The tech
nical language of the law Is net giVen
te subtleties; it docs net picture
tha trivialities that in the end make
a geed rip-snorting fight, end ulti
mate repugnance and separation. It
only charges "cruel and barbaieus
treatment," "desertion," "incempati-
Potpeurrl of Screen
Causes for Separations
1UHY de stars divorce?
This is a summary of the
reasons eiven by moviedem's meat
recent separatiens:
1. "When he arrived as a star,
he lest his interest in we."
2. " wanted a future, and
don't want te be tampercd by
any iveman."
S, "He is a genius, and geniuses
ought never marry. Yeu can't
make fireside companions of
them."
i. "He was cruel, net physical,
ly cruel, but mentally cruel."
5. "When your career inter
feres with marriage, or vice
versa, eliminate marriage."
6. "He struck me."
1. "He' posed as a Greek god
before mc and struck me when I
wouldn't admire him."
8. Ha was tee friendly with
ether women."
bility of temperament" and the rest
of these stock phrases which mean
se little, and yet have the desired
potency.
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'Tr lraji" Is Marital
Motte of Screen Stars
'THE duration of Bome mevif
marriages at a glance:
Rodelph Valentine and Jean
Acker, twelve hours. Miss Acker
declares it was a month.
Bill Hart and Winifred West West
ever, seven months.
Cennie Talmadgc and Jehn Pin Pin Pin
logleu, two years.
Charlie Chaplin and Mildred
Harris, two years.
Alice Brady and James L.
Crane, three years.
Clara Kimball Yeung and
James Yeung, six years. ,
jlfary Pickford and Owen
Moere, nine years.
Francis X. Bushrnan and Jose Jese
phine H. Bushman, sixteen years.
WlNFfcED
WESTOVER;
In December of lutt jcar, Dill Hart,
bachelor of moviedem, whom Mnrj
(tardea archly asserted once she Mould
net mind mnrrjiiiK herfcclf, hurprlted
the world by marrying little Winifred
W estevcr. She hud appeared in heveral
movies with Hill and doubtless udmired
his manful severity. IIu doubtless ad
mired her fascinating temlernesn and
grace of body and mind.
She is said te have called him "cream
puff" nn epithet subtle in intimation.
I'crlmps it was just her drollery, per
haps a suggestion of even then a grad
ual disillusionment, for if Hill Hart is
anything, he is net a creuui puff en
the screen.
Speculation is rife always and leads
nowhere. At any rate, the world was
ence mero startled just n week back
with news that all is net wuil In the
Hart household. Mr. Hurt, about te
become a mother, is net living with
Kill. She charges him with cruelty,
declares that hu posed as nn unclad
Ureck god for her te admire, and
whipped her because bhe didn't ad
mire. Kill denies all this, ns grimly and
an forcefully as ever he denied any
thing in any plctuic, and the matter
rests there.
Within a little tiuie their baby will
come. It comes into n curious world
and at a strange time, hut, of course,
It is a linby and babies have a habit
of doing that.
"Why Change Husband?"
Has Gleria the Answer?
"Why Change Your Husband?" wes
one of Gleria Swunsen's most notable
pictures. And the world Is asking that
question of her new. According te a
statement of Herbert K. Somborn, his
wife, whose second husbniul he is, no
longer lives with him. He lives In a
hotel and Gleria In a Hollywood bun
galow. "Yes, we are bepnrated," Sorabern
Is reported te linve sadly suld, "but our
estrangement has net been discussed
with an attorney as yet, nt least by
me. Reconciliation? That is up te
Gleria."
And the inference is that Somborn
is net altogether enthusiastic about the
separation, but that his wlfe may be.
Hlght en the heels of Gleria's JUtln
tragedy cornea word that the mniltal
bark of Blanche Sweet and Mnrshall
Nellan has struck the insurmountable
breakers. Miss Sweet is with her
mother at a hotel, Mr. Nellan en loca
tion ut Hollywood. They were married
Blanche Sweet
only three months age. Each refuse te
admit that their living apart has nny
particular signiticance.
Of course, there are rumor. The
world Is always wondering why. One
rumor has It that the producer re
fused te star his wife in a production
which he was convinced demanded an
other type. And that Blauohe left
him In n Ut of nerves.
It is a pleatnnt thing for this gos
sipy win Id new and then te bear
causes underlying movie divorces. It
Is n pleasant thing for mere reasons
than ene. It Is rich in the opportunity
it gives the wagging heads of horse
hair parlor and Imck-fcnce wireless te
question the cuuses.
Foreign Spouse Discarded
by Cennie Talmadge
The marriage and tragedy of merry
Cennie Tulniudge bristled with opper
tunity, beraiiHe the causes for both the
marriage and divorce were se clearly
stated.
Jehn Plaleglu, "a nntive of Turkey,
a subject of Greece and a cigarette
maker et New Yerk," met Cennie nt u
party in New Yprk. He succumbed te
her fascination. She te his dancing.
"He dances beautifully," Cennie sold.
"He danced right into my henrt." They
were married September 20, 11)20, ut
Greenwich, Conn. They separated
April 5, 1021, and Cennie get her inter
locutory decree May 0, 1022.
"When a career Interferes with mar
riage, or the ether way nreund, why
there's only ene thing te de," Cennie
is reported te have concluded. "Just
eliminate marriage. He knew nothing,
nbeut pictures, and I couldn't run up
nny enthusiasm about the tvnmifncturc
of cigarettes,"
Could anything be clcnrer?
proposed and been accepted. They, Mary Pickford divorced Owen Monre
Hh i,.fctp,i .m;;i,nj.. :,.;... . . J.ri.i I'Vi 7 "V" .."p"". .r u'es' le ee.-ausi- "Mie wanted te im fre.." jsiii'
fren Vwh'YiYftT ?, , " . ' V ' "" " "..., " " ?."'" "eltner V'P1 'S"I that Mr. Moere Is "lu.rn.lng.'
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n genius, tee.
una AetyiAaA tll n ..... r. . .. ..... I. ... . i .
IbUh: .. T" ".""5 "uc" 8un I ceulDer or W1C enme yc,,r- ' 'luently and became intoxicated new and
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iiiivnirni v 11 fni'P. nil i . . .- . .. ......
1 nr hmnH m.n.i te Rlldii. "Pfvfprt T.r,, ue Kiime nieiitli innrried the most ncre
v.msnuciiin iliuj witc miirrifll III 'llievunrn mnrr n ..ir. M,,r.. m.u nn.
admitted that Charlie ' .November i or fi. Thn nt mnmim. ii,,,, .,...1 ' ": " ..:."' ,. ,,
"no .te-tt t M"L,V..iJl !"? ' C.tr She said J,r.i wl, I.n-
icn. ucr uc- napnj aim tnut Utten deserted Her fre-
becn guilty of
that his particular brand was mental
te Rudy, "Perfect Lever"
Jean's reasons for
ballc
of heroes "Ueuiz" FnlrhnnkH. Ami
"Deug" himself had been divorced fren.
violence. Alse thnt he was "tight"
win. ma money.
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. .."..'" Mining nn mn nccuiuilieus I i.-ihiih.c, I'niiiunuu uuiinnry, IX) -Z. were i V In I ,1, mih fni it
held his peace. His dignified silence '"'.re or less clearly stated. "He said k'trhnnti .,,i2?1i0 f ""?'. n rR'
continued up till the granting of the ! success meant mere te him than any- ' . i1 .-. '''f,11''0!1, incompatibility,
divorce in 1020, and bas continued thing else." she said. "He tel.l Le I "ft ti rumnCn" '',',, JU''i,'0,ml'IC1l Mh
since. that he wonted u future, and didn't a ,0,tllPr. emn,n ,,d declared "she
The flapper's idol, "Rudy," Rudelph want any woman hampering him."' lie SJ" L ''L " u T'i'i'1 rPlmll!, "l" b,Lst
Valentine, of "The Four Horsemen" "truck and knocked her down she ! ilTV ' ,-iS,r,",8uSl,l,,,r w,,s ' ,p d"usb-
aim -ueyend tue uecus," wanted a fu- ennrgeu. "He was noting when I ln,,h"iWt''flv!".,v"r
ture, nnit that is why, according te his mnrried him. When he arrived, he est , i?, i .".? Iht,1felrw(,, M". Fairbanks
former wife. Jean Arlt.r. i, t lu interest In me." ' n ,081 1 M'eedily married James Evans. Jr.. a
ent hl
divorce.
This prince of levers holds the record
for the speedy consummation of thnt
which seems te him devoutly te be
wished. He met Jean Acier en Novem Nevem
ber 4, 1010. at a nnrtv. H whh nn.
known then. He fell In love with Jeim
V...1.m - TIln.l t s.
Itodelnh's counter BnU Wn - m ."Vr r"L.f. "S?.uff.nJ ViH" .or?
2". J"!!:r'ocute.r- lp5"d before n ' after all this cen.pTicate, ndiusfmVn
Or consider Charlie Chaplin, who and before the party was ever he had
vear was un In Afnr ioeo i. , .7 ' "" ..", ""l'-ii nujiisiment
iMniJr,i iP.n; y'.,r2, he raa"ied they nre living happl y but net to te
Winlfred Hudnut. urt director In ces. gctl.er.
"he ceudn' t w.ir fc. T.' ",eca! . 'I"1 . t..is.," .""J" 'l Point te
vn .r,l .l u' k,"w. ""T""' J.,e ' 1'1"..IC lliai movie ill
.iin'innit k,,.i. 'Bi"y oecuuse ncvter new tragic th
dldn t wait, but the suit petered out. mind, In few casei
MALE SCREEN ACTORS WHO HA VE SAW 'YES' A ND 'NO' TO THE QUESTION, 'IS MA TRIMONY A F AILURE?'
verces. no unit
ey may be te lln In
ses really ruin (he lives
of the protagonists. It Is u healthy
sign of old Greek philosophy come te Its
own once more: "A mistake Is merely
a miss; take a fchet et the old target
again."
When Alice Brady, star of "Forever
After," was about te marry James Ii.
Crane, son of Dr. Frank Crane, in
May, 1010, she said that her ideal hus
band was n man elder than she, wiser
than she, scrleui, but with a sense of
humor. And Crane himself declared
that happiness would come te the man
who gave his wife a feeling of partner
ship In his affairs.
Alice Brady Decided
Her "Idel" Was of Clay
In November, 1021, Miss Brady tiled
suit for divorce at New Yerk unci
charged misconduct. Ten dn.n before
the divorce was granted, in 1022, Mm.
Crane gave birth te a son.
"I married him," she is reported te
have said, "when he wns at the feet
of the ladder ; I at the top. I meant
te be happy forever after. But he drank
and was tee friendly with ether wom
en." Crane's first wife wiib Blanche Shir
ley, an uctress. She met a tragic dentil
when she fell, in December, 1010, from
the fourth fleer of u hotel.
It was Mrs. Jesephine II. Bushman
who placed the ruination of her mar
riage te Francis avier Bushman te
prosperity. She married him in Novem
ber, 1002, and lived with him till 1010.
They had five children. She mnrried
him when he was peer a clerk. When
he rose te stardom he developed a bru
tality toward her which she resented.
She chnrged him with infidelity, he
counter-charged her with Infidelity,
tteth denied the churges. The divorce
was grunted her July, 1018. A week
later Mr. Bushman married Beverly
Bayne, who had plnyed Juliet te his
Bernee In the movie version of that
tragic story.
Henry B. Walthall, recently starring
In "One Clear Call." less recently in
"The Birth of a Natien." lived ten
years happy with, Irene Kenten before
they were separated in 1017. Ten
days later he mnrried his leading lady,
Mary Charleston. Miss Fenten' nrfd llrt
quietly agreed that they "couldn't get'
along with each ether."
Even Jack Barrymore
Has Sought Leve Twice
In September, 1010. Jack Barrymore,
renowned en both stnge and M-u-en,
mi.rrled sixteen-year-old Kutherine
Cerre Hnrris, daughter of a wealthy
N.1 Yerk lawyer. She married Jack
i vainst the wishes of her parents, rfhe
w;m about te make her debut in society.
'Vhcn her parents heard of linr plnn
te marry they took her abroad but
she slipped quietly away, hurried back
rn Jacl' and was married. It hap
pened, tee, that Cehan & Harris lest
$.0 000 en the marriage, for thej hnd
taken out Lloyd Insurance against their
stiu's marrying. And he clipped off
one year of the period of his Insur-nm-e.
lit 1017 his wlfe charged him with
desertion und received her divorce.
I.nst year he married Mrs. Blanche
Oelrlchs Themas, who, under the pen
name of Michael Strange, Is the author
of one piny for her husband and of vol
umes of leve verse.
Artists, admired without any sense of
any proportion by u iiekle public, thrive
best in mutunl admiration societies, It
would seem. Hemes are net made for
them; genius, as Miss Harris se well
put it. must 'bide apart, und alone.
There are seme who say thnt hnp
piuess would come te even movie stars
If they hnd children te brighten ihel'r
off hours Instead of tame pups. Thnt
again Is speculation. Many of the
stars have children and very lovely
children. Where homes nfe lern
asunder, the children nre enlv n-ncle
reminders, like broken bric-a-braeJ
"Success" Dees Net Spell
"Happiness" for Favorites
And the summary of the evidence en
hand suggests that the most general
lenw.ii for movie divorce is "success "
which engendcis, strangely enough
cruelty. I'nder another name, it be.!
comes temperament an uncanny com
bination of childish nnlvete nud a cul
tivated Individuality or ego Achilles
had It, and he pouted. Mevie stars
have It, and they Ket divorced.
And, bravely, remarry again !
In conclusion, indeed, the subject In
spires poetry, even if ene must use
paruphrase :
Ner steel, nor fire itself hath power,
Like thou. O star, In thy cenqucrlnx
hour.
Bn thou but fair, mankind adore thee.
SSiuile, Hnd the world is weak beferw
thee.
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RODOLPH VALENTINO
BILL HART
OWEN, MOORE
WILLARD MACK
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JAMES .CRANE
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS CHARLES CHAPLIN
JACK BARRYMORE
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