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love in hollywood
In the final analysis of Hollywood love, it's the children of broken marriages who are the innocent victims of their parents' follies.
■ "There is no such thing as a quiet or amicable divorce in the movie colony if children are concerned," a HolhTv'ood psychiatrist recently said. '"Long after the newspaper stories stop, the headlines keep screaming out their terrible news in the hearts of the youngsters." »
Not far off one of Hollywood's prominent boulevards stands a large, well-kept mansion looking verj' much like the lovely home of a screen star. In a sense this home, which has been converted into a boarding school, is an unhappy monument to the HolhTV'ood loves which have failed. Here the children of broken marriages have come to live temporarily— residue of failure, pushed to one side — while their parents occupy themselves in making a new tr>' for romantic happiness.
The children play like any other children. They seem to laugh as readily and even to react as normally. Yet the unalterable fact is that each of them has suffered an emotional wound, a distortion of social feeling from which only the most fortunate will ever be able to recover.
Not all of these children are from the homes of stars. But at one time, when there were 30 of them registered, ever\' j-oungster but one was from a mo\'ie home that had split up.
The educators who run this boarding school are understanding and expert at caring for children whose sense of security in parental love has thus been shaken, but their job is heartbreakingly difficult. 'T just can't take it any more," said one teacher on leaving for another post. "Its like shepherding a bunch of lost, httle souls. There ought to be a law compelling parents who are divorce-minded to stop off here first and picture their own children trying to pretend that an institution is a home. They Will at least have some sort of idea then what price the innocents pay when a family splits apart."
While it is true that Hollywood's unhappy marital record is no higher than the national average, its children suffer more cruelly from the publicity, and over longer periods of time. As long as either of their parents is prominent in the {Continued on page 76)
THE SHATTERED MARRIAGE of Dick Hoymes and Joanne Dru produced three children, who now hove so nnany parents they don't know what to do — OS Daddy is married to Nora Eddington and Mother is Mrs. John Ireland.
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