Movie Classic (Sep-Dec 1931)

Do Movies and IL™,.-dges Mix? We all thought they were ideally happy, if you understand me. They had a big house with a separate guest section on Los Feliz Boulevard, a half-dozen cars and a butler and what-not. And then Jack: "I'm crazy about Estelle, but I want a home and she wants the public life, and I'm not going to forego family life and restrict her. We just don't agree, that's all." No Children, No Jack WHEREUPON Estelle countered that she had done every last thing Jack wanted — except — except — "well, I think two's enough in a family!" Which explains that, don't you think? So the romance has blown up as high as Mr. Gilroy's kite. For years the classic example of renunciation was Mae Marsh — winsome, appealing Little Sister in "The Birth of a Nation" — who met Lee Arms, New York newspaperman, surrendered to his arguments, married him, forswore the screen, mothered three children, managed her Flintridge home, and did some sculpture. But after thirteen years, she has just made another picture. Reason? She says it's because she had had a lot of trouble trying to convince her eldest daughter that she ever did or could act for the screen and must prove it to keep peace in the family. One of Paramount's most profitable stars was its dignified and [graceful Florence Yidor. Talkies came along and Paramount became exuberant about its plans for Florence. But one of the world's greatest violinists was also making plans, and evidently his were much more attractive than {Continued from. Mr. Zukor's, for Florence rjmntr^iy pushed the contracts aside, packed up her belongings, married Jascha Heifetz and — remembering the failure of her marriage with King Yidor — forswore the screen forever. Beverly Hills and Hollywood know her no more, but a gorgeous apartment on upper Park Avenue in New York occupies her attention, when she isn't abroad, keeping Jascha company on his concert tours. She says the screen must yield to the most fascinating man she ever knew. So Ina Stepped Out THE whirlwind romance of Ina Claire and Jack Gilbert swept Hollywood off its feet two years ago. Pathe had brought the talented and fascinating Ina out to do a group of pictures. She met Jack at a party, and at another and another. Six weeks later they were married and she went to live in Jack's hilltop home. Then Ina's pictures — well, they weren't box-office, you know, and Pathe bought up her contract. She had moved into a house of her own just before — to have freer artistic expression, you understand— and then she had to make a decision. Should she remain in Hollywood and be Mrs. Gilbert, and gradually sink into professional obscurity, or go back on the stage and be Ina Claire? She clicked in "Rebound" on the Los Angeles stage, scored a tremendous hit in the Paramount picture, "The Royal Family" (made in the East), was signed to a new movie contract by Sam Goldwyn, came back to Hollywood, and announced her separation from husband Jack. She said it. The home couldn't hold two stars. Right at the top of her screen career Dolores Costello married Jack Barrymore, and for three years the pictures have been minus her charm and beauty. But she has something to show for her "retirement" — a small daughter to carry on the family tradition. She'll tell you her family life is much more attractive and important than the screen, but — oh, well, perhaps an occasional picture. Her principal career is being Mrs. Barrymore. That was a real renunciation. Mildred Davis Lloyd merely looks at you with amused tolerance when you mention the screen and the possibility of her return to it. Wouldn't it be odd — and boring? is the idea you get. She has found a life that is so much fuller and of greater scope that you couldn't induce her to stop being Mrs. Harold Lloyd and caring for her family of three children for all the screens in Hollywood. No, thank you! Connie Kept Her Word WE all remember — how time does fly, doesn't it? — when little Connie Talmadge up and said that now and forthwith she was kissing the movies goodbye, and for all of her they could do this and that, for she was going to marry a Chicago department store, and become Mrs. Townsend Netcher. This was her third try at marriage, and this time it took, and pictures were out. "Don't make me laugh," she says when you talk movies to her. "I'm married to a man, not a job." "I never was crazy about picture work," AFTER YOUR EVERY SMOKE Beech-Nut Gum MAK iS TH E N EXT SMOKE TASTE BETTEIL^S^ When you pause to bask in the summer sunshine and enjoy a lazy smoke — make the stolen moments more enjoyable with the cool refreshment of Beech-Nut Gum. 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