Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

of the Players Both on the Set and Off VV/iNiFRED Westover was ** granted a divorce from William S. Hart. .She obtained her release from Bill ;it Reno, where she has been living since last September. Details of the trial were not available, because the publicwas not admitted to the courtroom. She received a settlement of $100,000. The decree was granted on lestimony that Hart had willfully deserted his wife, refusing to live with her after a visit she made to a physician on May 10, 1922. ""The dazzling life sur* rounding young stars in their ascendency blinds us to the pathetic figures who have -een it all and are now snatching crumbs around the fringes of the popular film tables. Only recently a once popular screen star was making the rounds of the casting offices, pleading for a part, a bit or even extra work. At one time she boasted a bigger name than Mary Pickford's. The studios turned a deaf ear to her entreaties. She sought aid from old friends without success. Eventually she got down to me. She dozens of them. She was broke, I wondered why this sudden out in obscurity for many years. I looked at her features closely . . . she had just had her face lifted ! A studio publicity man bewails the fact that his com^*' pany harbors nothing but foreign talent and he cant talk to them. "I'm starting a movement for an English speaking unit," says he. The terrific downpour of rain which caused raging torrents to rush thru the streets of Hollywood resulted in considerable inconvenience to the producers. Screen teams have returned to favor. Sam Wood, the director, sponsers George K. Arthur and Karl Dane (of "Big Parade" fame) as a new team in "Red, White and Blue" Herbert Brenon introduces his screen find, Karen Hansen, to Warner Baxter, whose wife she plays in "The Telephone Girl." Warner seems to approve . . . and Warner certainly should know . . . bad new pictures living in a hall room. burst of ambition on her part, after having been Rcnee Adorer. Robert Erazer and a company of fifty were snowbound near Mammouth in the High Sierras. Several airplanes were engaged by the Universal company to carry food a n d supplies to thei r stranded troup. The First National company filming "The Sunset Derby" was stranded near Riverside in the San Bernardino mountains. Bridges and roads were washed out behind them and airplanes were again used to carry relief supplies. William Collier, Jr.. Mary Astor and Ralph Lewis were the principal players in the company. Raymond Hatton and his wife spent the duration of the storm battling the mountainous waves which threatened to destroy their beach cottage. Einar Hanson, the Swedish actor, sat for two hours in his car in the middle of Vine Street with the water above the running-boards. Lon Chaney. Esther Ralston and Margaret Morris were doing the same thing farther down the street. If the rain had continued another day, Hollywood would have been a city of channel swimmers. A news dispatch says a lithograph of "Old Ironsides," •**■ which cost three cents, was sold to President Coolidge by Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Eberle for twenty-five cents {Continued on page 94) All s not snow that appears snow . . . if you happen to be around a movie studio. James Murray and Eleanor Boardman and Bert Roach really need that fan. For their frigid background's only a set . . . and the Kleig lights are good pinch-hitlers for Old Sol 47