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FRANKEST BREAK-UP
actress. But Hollywood sometimes does strange things.
Very few men with any pride at all can weather the ignominy of being merely the husband of a famous woman — no matter how much that woman tries to show that her love for him is far greater than her pride of fame. For it isn't the feeling between them which causes the strain, it's the gossip, the malicious insinuations, the thousand tiny hurts which come from their friends, their acquaintances and the world at large.
And it is impossible to shut out the world — especially if you live in Hollywood and are a prominent figure in the movie industry.
Ann and Harry tried it — and failed. Fame has exacted its price — and the price is their married happiness. Not
March 21st, 1932.
Mr. Walter Ramsey, Modern. Screen Magazine, Hollywood, California,
Dear Mr. Ramsey:
The following statement, together with a statement from Mrs. Bannister, is being delivered simultaneously to the general Press:
During the five and a half years I have teen married to Ann Earding, I have had the love and respect and devotion of the very great and lovely person who is my wife.
Therefore, in order to preserve this in its entirety, . we find the apparently drastio course of divoroe, the quickest and best solution tp our eventual complete happiness.
their love. For that is why they are going to be divorced — in order to save their love. A truly brilliant move, since they have learnt by bitter experience that if they stay married, their love for each other would be ultimately doomed.
Is it possible to be happily married — when both parties are professionals, and one of them — particularly the woman — gains greater fame?
Twice, John Gilbert found it unendurable. Once with Leatrice Joy — -when he became suddenly famous and she began to slip, and again with Ina Claire — when he was sliding from fame and she was going to greater glory.
Rumors insist that Ruth Chatterton is going to divorce Ralph Forbes. Another case where the wife tried hard to
hold happiness. Ruth has done everything to make Ralph as popular — but the fates said otherwise. And so their marriage may be endangered.
Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery couldn't make their marriage last — when she became a great star. For in those days Wallace Beery was not nearly as important as he is now.
Some women have been wise enough to give up their career when they married an actor. Jobyna Ralston, now Mrs. Dick Arlen, did. Lola Lane is content to be Mrs. Lew Ayres. Dolores Costello tried one picture since she has been Mrs. John Barrymore — but only one. Perhaps her intuition told her (Continued on page 115)
There is nothing further that I can to Mrs, Bannister's statement.
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(Above) Harry Bannister's letter, too, is quiet and dignified— but that doesn't lessen the unhappiness which the events leading up to it must have caused. (Right) Baby Jane— the Bannisters' lovely child. She, too, must suffer.