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Putting Them Bac
Practice Makes Perfec
Marriagd
HOLLYWOOD probably has more divorces per square inch than any other city of its size in the world. It is one of the things for which it is famous. (I hope don't think I'm boasting — it's true!)
We go in for divorce, as it were. We do it with finesse and finish. No people anywhere, I'll wager, think up neater or more adroit "grounds" for the thing than Hollywoodians do. "Mental cruelty" is the usual charge made by wives desiring to achieve the single state and generously willing to save their husbands' feelings, when the allegations are reported in print. And the things they say!
After this is accomplished, of course, the two members of the team are automatically put back into circulation. I mean they are open to new offers. Available for re-sale. A trifle shopworn, perhaps, and rumpled. But really better than new, because they have had th advantage of practice.
As a matter of fact, this practice business makes amateur competition difllicult in the marriage marts of Hollywood, what chance do you think a person has, who has never been married, in comparison with all these agile people who have been at it off and on, for years?
It is much the same situation as that of an unknown and untried actor trying to compete with an experienced and famous one who is "between contracts." Experience counts, my dears, in marriage — as in acting.
The Problems of Comebacks
ETTING back into circulation successfully is a fine little VJ" problem in itself. Not that one's status is at all questionable in these circles, as it may still be in some repressed and backward quarters of this earth. (I wouldn't know about that!). But it is a little bit precarious.
Unless one has kept one's hand in (of course, a flock of them have), one does not know exactly how — er — good one is going to
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be when one achieves th< single state and — uh — look^ about for new prospects. It is a bit worrisome, wonder-i ing whether the old appeal is as potent as ever am' whether one shows one's at very much, and so forth. The effect of newly acquii singleness varies considerably! with individuals. Naturally. ] For instance, I think divorce hasi been very becoming to Colleen Moore. She has positively bloomed since her separation from John McCormick. She has bought a lot of < new clothes — sloofy, so1 phisticated clothes, if I you please. No more
Now that Charlie Chaplin (upper left) and Betty Compsoa (left) are back in circulation, Lita Grey Chaplin (upper right) and James Cruze (below) are victirat of partial eclipses
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