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Why CLARA BOW Can't Stay in LOVE
Clara Bow and her father, Robert Bow.
Clara and Harry Richman, the Broadway songster.
Clara with Victor Fleming, the Hollywood director.
By RUTH WATERBURY
A FEW months ago Clara Bow announced her engagement. Which wasn't exactly news. In fact, it was so little real news that the only angle of interest, as far the press was concerned, was the man involved. The man of the engagement was Harry Richman, a curly-haired song and dance boy from Broadway, but recently arrived in Hollywood to make his first talkie.
It was summer in Hollywood and for a time the engagement looked as real as the ten-thousand-dollar diamond ring Harry had slipped on Clara's correct finger. For a time there were moonlight and roses, kisses and caresses, tete-a-tetes and love avowals, all conveniently within camera range.
It was all very wonderful, marvelous, and amorous. And it was all very swell publicity for its principals.
Then one morning, not so long ago, newspapers throughout the country carried first-page yarns to the effect that Harry and Clara weren't engaged after all; that it had all been a publicity plant in the first place: and that Clara's heart interest was somewhere else again.
Now the men in Clara Bow's engagements are never very important — not any more of importance than the men in Peggy Hopkins Joyce's marriages, for instance. Clara has been engaged to Gilbert Roland, Victor Fleming, Robert Savage, Gary Cooper, and several others. Not to mention the more recent Harry Richman.
And each time it has seemed as though, just after the announcement of the engagement, Clara's heart interest has been somewhere else again.
Clara's beaux and Cupid's bow. Why can't Clara, the "IT" girl of the screen, the girl who most perfectly typifies flaming youth and fierce desire, why can't Clara Bow stay in love?
To any one who knows her — restless, discontented, lonely as only the empty in heart are lonely — there cannot be the faintest doubt that Clara wants to be in love ; that, even, she wants to marry and have children.
Many men have loved her. Obviously she could have married any number of times. Girls as gifted with beauty, youth, and fortune as Clara are very rare, indeed, and such girls are born for romance.
Yet, seemingly, Clara, who wants love so much, is afraid of it. Plainly, she runs away from romance when she discovers it near her.
A learned psychologist would remark that many people fall in love time after time, but if the psychologist were true to his teachings, he would point out that such people always fall in love with the same type.
No group could be more varied than the group Clara has fallen for. Gilbert Roland is a Mexican, darkly romantic, fiercely jealous, eagrer and handsome. Victor Fleming is sandy-haired, plain, but most amusing, and many years Clara's senior. Robert Savage, who burned up a lot of Hollywood Boulevard with his father's money, is just the usual rich man's son. Gary Cooper was newly come down from the hills when Clara met him, a tall, rangy, laconic youth. Harry Richman is typically Broadway, dark, suave, a wise guy, flashy and smart.
Those five men of totally different temperament are
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