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Pauline Karloff was divorced from Boris Karloff three years ago, when he was unknown. When he suddenly became famous overnight, as the new mystery man of the screen, sensation-hunters thought they could force her to tell them about his past. They thought she would be resentful of his success. She has had to move to escape them
The Trials
of a Hollywood
Ex-Wife
By Dorothy Calhoun
THE names of Clark Gable and Boris Karloff are on everybody's tongue to-day. Overnight, after years of struggle, they have taken the movies by storm. Everybody wants to know what they are like in private life, where they came from, how they got their start. Someone discovers that both men have been divorced. The Press rushes to find the ex-wives — to get their stories.
And if the ex-wives claim they have nothing to tell, and object to being asked impertinent questions? They will be forced to tell, they will be persecuted! This is no idle statement. They have already suffered this persecution. For months.
Reporters for sensational newspapers, feature writers for Sunday supplements, not satisfied with the prosaic details handed out by publicity departments, are vying with each other to unearth the most startling stories possible about these suddenly famous Unknowns. They realize that the ex-wives of these men know intimate details about these men — and they expect ex^wives to tell.
The lively curiosity of the public demands colorful facts about their favorites, particularly about their pasts. "You Americans!" Valentino once said bitterly, "you set up idols for the fun of tearing them down!"
In the search for color and sensation, everyone who has known the new stars intimately in the unknown past is sought out. But the brunt of the attack falls on the women they have put out of their lives and who, the sensationhunters argue, must be anxious to get even with them. // these self-appointed investigators were right, these women would be prosperous to-day. Thousands of dollars have been offered to them for their stories — and indignantly turned down. And so they have been persecuted, bitterly, cruelly.
Refused Story; Lost Work
JOSEPHINE DILLON GABLE, as a re) suit of refusing a well-known magazine writer a vindictive story about her exhusband, Clark Gable, has lost many of her voice training pupils — because of statements the writer made about her. Pauline Karloff, ex-wife of Boris, has had her telephone disconnected and has finallv been forced to