Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (May - Dec 1930)

f Constance Bennett, who was rumored several times as trying to swipe Gloria Swanson’s titled husband, recently crossed the border at Auga Caliente in company with Henri the Marquis de la Falaise. Of course Connie had her mother with her! He's grabbed a job for himself with Arkayo handling French pictures. Cedric Gibbons, husband of Dolores Del Kio, screen actress, was sued recently by his first wife, Gwendolyn Gibbons, for breach of an alleged contract to pay her $6,000 yearly alimony. Gibbons is a film art director with M.-G.-M., with a salary reputed to be fifty grand yearly. Mrs. Gibbons alleged she and her former husband, upon separating in March, 1927, agreed he would pay her $116 weekly. She said he made the payments until July 1, 1929, when he reduced them to $75 weekly. Since July 1, this year, she complained, he had paid nothing. Gibbons and the Mexican film actress were married at the Santa Barbara mission last August 6. Recently Dolores got into a scrape that smacked suspiciously, as one of the newspapers put it, of a “Well of Loneliness” case. She was charged with wrecking the marital life of Gunther R. Lessing, a prominent attorney, by influencing Mrs. Loula C. Lessing to turn against him. (We don’t believe it’s true!) The charges were made in an amended answer filed by lossing in his wife’s divorce suit. The lawyer accused the actress of telling Mrs. Lessing that he was an “ugly old man,” of flattering her that she was “a young beautiful girl,” and of advising Mrs. Lessing to see “real romance,” ns she, Dolores, had found it. Lessing has a civil suit pending against Miss Del Rio for $31,000 for legal services. He represented her in obtaining a divorce at Nogales, Mexico, two years ago, from Jaime Del Rio of Mexico City and New York. Mrs. Lessing’s divorce complaint, filed some time ago, charged her husband with misconduct. Audrey Ferris, charmingly beautiful screen actress, was once married to a mongolian; the white met the yellow; the East and the West joined — for a time at least — long enough to shock some of Audrey’s caucasion friends. The “dirt” came out recently. A naive Japanese youth, lifted from obscurity and installed in the palatial home of a prominent Lakewood, N. J., physician and movie fan as tutor to the doctor’s children — usurped the, well, to put it mildly, “affections” of his benefactor’s wife — it was charged in a divorce action filed in the New Jersey state capital. The principals in the December-June romance of the personable Oriental movie stunt man and the matronly wife are Archer H. Saki and Mrs. Robert Buermann, of an historic lineage, who is related to Leonard Kip Rhinelander and Gouverneur Morris, author of several socalled sex novels. "Kippy,” it will be recalled, recently settled for cash with his dusky negro bride. Saki, for whom Mrs. Buermann bought an airplane, an airport and a Packard roadster is revealed in the action as the former Audrey Married a Jap! husband of Audrey Ferris, movie actress once hailed as a “Wampas baby star.” A white girl. As Miss Ferris’ husband, Saki was known in Hollywood as Archie Huntington, an airplane acrobat who doubled for actors in dangerous stunts. According to Dr. Buermann’s suit, he picked up the Japanese youth four years ago when Saki was 19, and brought him to his Lakewood home. As tutor to the Buermann children, Saki met Mrs. Buermann, and, in short time, was seen in her company ojtener than with the children. Next, Mrs. Buermann bought the Japanese an airplane and, when he pointed out that he couldn’t lake off On land, an airport all his own. While flying his motherly Lady Bountiful’s gift plane Saki nosedived with Mary Jobling, pretty English actress, and C. P. McCormack, a Cleveland engineer, causing the death of both and injuries to himself which, however, proved slight. Later he was charged with manslaughter for the deaths by Chief County Detective Charles O. Davis, of Monmouth County, N. J. Shortly thereafter he left Lakewood and, after obtaining a lieutenant’s commission, appeared in Hollywood. There, after a hectic courtship, he married Miss Ferris, ignoring the matronly patroness who sought to hold his love with costly toys. Rut the marriage ended abruptly a few days later and Miss Ferris later charged Saki — or Huntington — with cheating her. Viola Dana, now 32 years of age, and once one of Hollywood’s shapeliest and best known motion picture actresses, was recently married at Colorado Springs, Col., to Jimmy Thomson, a golf professional, she told friends. She obtained a divorce several years ago from her second husband, Lefty Flynn, actor and football player. Her first husband , John Collins, a director, died of inlluen/.a. Continued on pa ftp 4 U Cedric Gibbons, Director EUGENICS played an important part, recently, in the life of a film company executive in the New York Supreme Court recently. The “love child”, pretty Betsy Barbara, is now nearly three years old, and the man who “made her happier and gave her more pleasure,” as she puts it, is reputed to be Max Shore. The photoplay executive had been suing the sturdy Mr. Shore for ten thousand dollars on the grounds that his beautiful wife, Estelle, had been the “eugenic love mate” of Shore’s; but the suit died out when Justice Bernard L. Shientag dismissed the jury after lawyers for both sides told him they’d reached a settlement. The case was discontinued, but it was reported that Mr. Lee, whose wife left him to live with Shore, a realtor, in order to have the baby she says Lee denied her, had agreed to accept $1,500. Mrs. Lee-Shore, a pretty, dark-eyed brunette, had asserted that Lee was impossible as a husband and unable to make her a mother. Shore, on the other hand, she said, was kind and a better man than Lee and also uble to provide her with a child. Both the mother and baby girl are beautiful enough to be featured in movies themselves. HOLLYWOOD MOVIES The tMf/ ■V Divorce vm . The Marriage Mart Docket