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HEARTBURN? r^ueltofu S:on"hea.hu.n an^^^^^^^^^^ Guaranteed by the makers of Ex-Lax. 10cAROLL-3for25c Round-Up of Romances (Continued jrom page 32) Hollywood did know that Roger's tenyear-old daughter by his former marriage had been visiting them. Just prior to the little girl's arrival, Ann had had her bedroom newly decorated. The house only has two master bedrooms and no sooner did Ann get her bedroom done than it burned up. This is literally true, and a rather funny story. Ann was so crazy about the new decorations that she wouldn't even let her maid clean up the room. She did it herself each morning and locked the room when she went to the studio. One morning, apparently, she left a lighted cigarette behind her. When the frantic maid finally smelled the burning hangings, got Ann at the studio and Ann got home with the key, it was all too late. Naturally no movie star can be expected to sleep in a gutted-out bedroom, so Annie had moved into the other bedroom with her stepdaughter and Roger had gone to a hotel. That was the way things stood until not so many days ago there appeared in the newspapers this bombshell — a statement that she and her husband were separating. "Due to our widely divergent actions," she said, "problems have arisen which we felt might more easily be solved by a trial separation." Ann and Roger, as you can see, are still fighting for their marriage. But at this point not even they can prophesy the outcome. The break-up of the Errol (Fighting) Flynns so immediately after their first baby was born was really shocking to Hollywood. Despite the numerous separations and reconciliations of this pair, Hollywood had maintained the belief that theirs was really a love match, no matter how stormy. Therefore, where on all other occasions Hollywood has always laughed and said Lili and Errol would be back together again soon, this time it says just the opposite. Lili and Errol both say it is all over. Perhaps it is. but you can't be certain. You can't be certain, either, in the case of Lana Turner and Tony Martin. Their friends say you can expect them to be married any day soon. But these two quarrel and make up, make up and quarrel, with Tony being now under the same handicap with Lana that he was with Alice Faye. Tony's strongest medium is not dramatics. He is a personality, he is handsome, he has a swoon-making voice. In radio, in personal appearances, he's tops, but in pictures he's far from appearing at his best. Meanwhile Lana gets increasingly more important. It made a tough setup with Alice. It will probably mean a tougher setup with Lana, because Lana and Tony quarrel more. Even if they do marry, nobody in Hollywood would give you a plugged nickel on the success of the union. You can tell, however, about Gary Grant and Barbara Hutton, or, in other words, unless all signs fail, there is nothing to tell. Despite their recent trip together into Mexico, this is one of those "as is" romances, similar to the BrentSheridan romance, the George RaftBetty Grable romance. In the latter case, of course, nothing can be done. George is still undivorced. In the former two, Hollywood thinks nothing will be done. You can discount that chatter about Laraine Day's marrying Ray Hendricks, the singer, any day now. The slim Miss Day knows how marriages slow down young actresses' careers and she wants nothing whatsoever to slow down hers. Don't put too much stock, either, in those Ginger Rogers-George Montgomery datings. They are intense and night-afternight currently, but it is often thus with Miss Rogers. She seems to have as keen an ability to get in and out of romantic complications as does the aforementioned Mr. Brent. Perhaps she even learned the trick from him, for once upon a time they two saw quite a bit of one another. Or maybe she learned some of it from Howard Hughes, to whom she was supposedly engaged a year ago. this same Mr. Hughes who lately has been ringing Miss Hedy Lamarr's doorbell, and prior to either Hedy or Ginger has dated every leading glamour girl in turn OF course, other gentlemen ring Miss Lamarr's doorbell, too. There is Mr. John Howard, who still calls frequently; Mr. Reginald Gardiner, who calls very occasionally, and amusingly enough. Mr. Gene Markey, who is an ex-husband, who has lately been re-calling. But Hedy's heart belongs to Johnnie. It honestly does. Johnnie is the only person that Hedy cares for passionately and completely. In case you have forgotten. Johnnie is the little boy she adopted nearly two years ago. Because of her divorce she still hasn't his legal custody. Until she has, you may be sure that there will be no romance in the Lamarr life. It is one of those unbelievable things that a girl like this should turn out to be allmother, but it is absolutely true. That's the current romance round-up. affairs of the Hollywood heart brought right up to the minute. Of course. I don't know how long this minute will last. They do say that Brent and Sheridan . . . they do say that that producer and his wife . . . no, no, I do not mean Arthur Hornblow and Myrna Loy . . . ah, well. I'll have to check up on those and tell you more in another couple of months, when I come back again armed with my beaux and arrows ■WHAT KIND OF A HOUSE DO THEY LIVE IN?" That's what many readers ask us in their letters about Hollywood stars NEXT MONTH in an intimate and exclusive feature we give you o picture of Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward as they really are in their own home with special photographs by Photoplay-Movie Mirror's own photographer 80 PHOTOPLAY combined with movie mirroi