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Because almost all the exciting things in Hollywood occur during players have come to regard that season as the trouble-making happen. In the past as well as the present, it would certainly
WHEN the mischievous months of March, April, and May approach, Hollywood gets set for a collective headache. Spring gets into Hollywood's hlood, and a stimulating juggling of emotions instantly results.
It's in these naughty months, stirred hy turbulent and restless impulses to make changes, that almost anything is likely to happen in Cinematown. And almost anything does.
New romances bloom and old ones die. The rumor market does a lively business. Hollywood bachelors have a dickens of a time remaining single, and few escape. Old marrieds strain at the bonds that not only bind, but practically paralyze. And the aviation companies get used to the idea of tuning up a plane for a sudden flight to Yuma or Reno. Just as fancy or the marital status dictates.
This last November and December gave the romantic spring months a run for their money. Evelyn Laye and Frank Lawton, Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres. Margaret Sullavan and Director William Wyler, June Knight and Paul Ames all said their "I do's," Miss Knight changing hers to "I won't" after a few days. But give the spring credit ; most of them were assured events when the birds began to trill "1-o-ove" !
In this silly spring season, Charles Chaplin inevitably announces that he is about to start his new picture. And it usually is fall before anything happens, if then.
Mary Brian is authentically reported engaged — at last. Stars walk out of studios and wait to be coaxed back with increased pay checks. And spicily diverting little quarrels ripen into physical encounters at otherwise placid parties. And the parties promptly become not so placid.
Looking at vital statistics, we find that almost all the exciting things in Hollywood happen during the mischievous months.
Take this last spasm for example. What do we have? First and foremost, the Jean Harlow-Hal Rosson separation. Now Jean had decided to wait a while, until fall perhaps, to announce that her third marriage had failed. But there came a Saturday night when one word led to three others and. just like that, the divorce was set in motion.
Ruth Chatterton and George Brent, too, called it a day, even after repeated denials of a rift. Perhaps if this trouble-making period weren't upon them, they might have hurdled their difficulties. But they couldn't — and didn't. Chalk up another score for the trouble-making months.
Now that we're on divorce and separation, let's get the unpleasantness over. There was Kay Francis and Kenneth MacKenna, who just couldn't go on another
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