Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1922)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 99 Plays and Players (Continued from page 08) Mayo was already married when Dammar came on the scene, and the first Mrs. Mayo did something and mentioned her and then Miss Godowsky was or did do something, too, and it was quite hectic for a time. Finally Mrs. Mayo left her husband, it being quite general knowledge that his friendship with the beautiful Dagmar was at least a contributing cause. Perhaps Frank is fond of music. Anyway, he sued on the grounds of desertion and got it, and in order that he might not have to wait for his bride the year required by the California law, they slipped over the line into Mexico and became man and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Mayo, after a brief honeymoon, will reside with the Godowskys in Hollywood until their own home is completed. EVER since Harold Lloyd bought that beautiful new home, the Hollywood Boulevardiers have been speculating as to whether that meant Harold had begun sniffing the orange blossoms and hankering for the sound of Mr. Wagner's most popular composition. f Now that all hope of Bebe becoming Mrs. Lloyd seems to have vanished and Harold has at last recovered from her decision, the spectacled comedian is beginning to have a look that indicates he may follow in the footsteps of his rival, Buster Keaton. However, he seems to have difficulty in making a selection. There are, it appears, four charming little girls, upon whom he showers impartial attention. For instance, if he takes Maggie to Sunset Inn on a Wednesday night, he will take Mamie to the theater on Friday, and Mil — excuse me, — and Lizzie to the Cocoanut Grove on Saturday evening and Sally for a motor drive on Sunday. So the betting is that the one that happens to be with him when the matrimonial germ rears its head and causes him to blurt out the fatal question, will be Mrs. Harold Lloyd. ALL Los Angeles mourned the death of Harry Duffield, beloved veteran actor, who died at his home, October 13th. Mr. Duffield was 71 years old and had been on the stage and screen 59 years — having appeared in support of some of the world's greatest actors. The funeral was at the Elks Hall and hundreds were turned away, while over 500 people stood bareheaded in the street during the process of the services. MARRIAGE is like that. Anyway, Harold and Tony Moreno now seem the most eligible bachelors in pictures — Mr. Chaplin not being in that list — but Tony is showing a decided preference for the names that come in the Social Register. We hear he had a few weak moments when he met Mae Busch — but everyone in Hollywood has an attack of Mae Busch-itis sooner or later — and Miss Busch's affections were elsewhere engaged, so he returned to the debutantes, golfers, and handsome young divorcees of the Los Angeles 400. But he nearly ruined his reputation for being such a "dear, nice boy," when Elinor Glyn — who was giving character and psychic readings of the guests at a dinner party — told him he had been Irish a few generations back. "No, by damn," yelled Tony, "by gosh, I guess not. I'm Spanish, so is my mother and father and my grandmother and grandfather back 7000 years — I'm no kind of a Irishman — not me. Every damn relative I got is Spanish, you bet. I like be Irish — but I never been, I know that, bv gosh." 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