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164 Pauline Frederick
ton. He was a hotel man and President of the Interstate News Company. He was connected with the Beverly Hills Hotel and here it was that they had met. Pauline liked him but was not in the least in love with him and had refused his proposal of marriage. Unfortunately, there was the dominating influence of Mumsy to be reckoned with. She considered that a marriage with Leighton would be most beneficial to her daughter.
Mumsy worked with the very best of intentions, believing that her superior years made her a better judge than her daughter, whose choice of husbands had not hitherto been so successful. Dripping water will wear away a rock and Pauline was no rock. It was another instance when she found it impossible to stand up to her mother's domination. They argued and they fought over the matter but, finally, it was Mumsy who won the day. On April 19, 1930, Pauline and Leighton were married in New York City. Before doing this, however, she had told him that she was not in love with him and that he must take her on her own terms which were rather more those of friendship than of marriage. Of course, here Pauline showed the utmost foolishness for she must have known that no man could live with a creature as glamorous as she and not want to possess her in every sense of the word. So much that is unpleasant has been said about this marriage, and so many lies were broadcast at the time, that it needs some clarification. The whole thing was wrong from the start. Pauline left Leighton within a few months. He sued for an annulment in December of the same year on the grounds that he had been a husband in name only. Because of this statement in the papers, many people, for some inexplicable reason, jumped to all kinds of unpleasant conclusions and the wildest tales were circulated. There was nothing in Pauline's behavior at any