Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

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56 Mr. and Mrs. Monte Blue, whose marriage is comparatively young, are still most decidedly in love, and inordinately proud of little Barbara Ann. IN a community where marriages between extremely temperamental persons flourish and where the responsibility of the promises spoken at the altar is supposed to be treated more lightly than any place else in the country, it is surprising} as I pointed out before, how many really happy unions are to be found Contrary to the general impression, as said before, the number of divorces in Hollywood is no greater than the number of divorces in any other city of the same population, and those that do occur are not celebrated, as one might be led to suppose, with champagne dinners and general hilarity. Most of the shouting about Hollywood divorces has come from outside the colony. In fact, the mere word, "divorce," is shunned in the community, and two players who have ended their marriage via the divorce court are quietly spoken of as having "separated." There is, to be true, a long list of such ill-fated couples. Among the feminine players, for instance, whose marriages have ended in divorce are Leatrice Joy, May Allison, What Makes a The answer is sought in the homes of Hollywood, unhappy marriages among the film folk, begun By Elza Hedda Hopper, Anna O. Nilsson, Renee Adoree, Diana Miller, Irene Rich, S e e n a Owen, Priscilla Dean, Ruth Roland, Virginia Valli, Louise Fazenda, Helene Chadwick, Carmel Myers, and Pauline Frederick. Miss Frederick has been three times unsuccessfully married — first, a number of years ago, to a rich New York business man, next to Witlard Mack, actor and playwright, and lastly to Doctor Rutherford of Seattle. Alice Calhoun's marriage six or seven months ago to a young attorney has also proved to be a failure, and divorce proceedings are under way. Among the prominent men of the colony who have had experience with divorce are Ronald Colman, Jack Gilbert, and, recently, Adolphe Menjou. So perfect is the union between Douglas MacLean and his wife that they seem to have been always married.