Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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"leave 'em and like 'Em" Seems the Byword of Modern Husbands and Wives HAVE you ever heard of a divorced fiance ? On second thought, fiance is hardly the word. "The very best of friends" is what they call themselves and they haven't the slightest intention of remarrying. Non, non, non, as we say so quickly in French. Nevertheless, from what I can pick up from Hollywood divorced ladies who seem to prefer the society of their ex-husbands to newer and more novel escorts, it seems that : In order to marry a man one must love him — but to like him one must divorce him. Which brings to mind the old story of the farmer who, when questioned as to whether or not he lpved his wife, replied, "Wall," with a contemplative spit of tobacco, "I love Hattie all right, but, by gum, I dont like her." It is working out just the other way with a lot of young jade widows and sod bachelors in Hollywood. They dont love 'em any more, but, by gum, they sure like 'em. You cant go anywhere — hardly — that you dont run into a couple of friendly enemies sociably tripping the heavy Black Bottom together, or sipping Orange Pekoe over softly lighted tea-tables or jointly judging a dance contest at the Montmartre. There used to be a time when divorced couples would run a mile out of the way to avoid passing one another on the same side of the street, but apparently that day is over. It has become tremendously smart to be pally with one's exmate. The chic woman of the world wears to the races a bluechecked sport dress, felt hat to match, one large handbag, one slave bracelet set with sapphires and one slightly divorced husband on her left arm. The social world sanctions it, the average world practises it, and as usual Hollywood started it. (I think.) Can we ever forget the commotion Ruth Roland and her freshly divorced husband occasioned several years ago when they persisted in attending the Orpheum together in spite of an interlocutory decree. The gossips and the tourists simply couldn't get over it. Neither could 18 ivorced Divorced couples no their way to avoid passsame side of the street. I. They seemed to be so interested in one another and to have so much to talk about. Not only that, but Mr. Ex continued to manage Ruth's business affairs. It is a brave and generous woman who trusts her heart to a man, but it takes an absolutely open-fisted gal to put her finances in his keeping, especially when they have just been separated by the grace of the California courts. But Ruth did just :i that and they have been friends ever since the divorce, even tho they aren't seen together as much as they used to be — Ruth being pretty much taken up socially with Ben Bard. After Ruth's setting the style like that, we began to expect almost anything. But even so we hadn't expected that Jack Gilbert and Leatrice Joy would be so friendly immediately following their divorce. Jack and Leatrice had had a pretty stormy time. Their married life was just one hurdle after another. They hurled a couple of insinuations about one another's disposi ff ,:;o; M W I. ive: •:e; Photographs by Kenneth Alexander and Ray huff Richter When Jack Gilbert and Leatrice Joy meet accidentally at social events, Jack spends the evening at Leatrice's feet and asks of everyone: "Isn't she beautiful?" "Just because you no longer love one another," says Constance Talmadge, "is no sign you dont like one another. Mr. Mackintosh and I enjoy each other's society. That's all there is to it" Photograph by Woodbury _J