Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

58 What Makes a Perfect Marriage ? George K. Arthur and his wife have celebrated their fourth anniversary, with a baby daughter among those present. and screen, have been married ten years. Buck Jones and his wife have been married eleven years. Mrs. Jones was a rider in the same wild-West show as Buck. Their daughter Maxine, who is eight, has inherited her mother's and father's prowess as riders, for she already can stick to a saddle like a jockey. Russell Simpson has a daughter of eight. Mrs. Simpson is a talented singer who still keeps up her music. Theodor von Eltz is another family man, boasting two children, a boy of eighteen months and a girl of three years. Malcolm McGregor has a daughter of six. Bill Desmond and his wife, who was known on the stage as Mary Maclvor, have one child. The Hallam Cooleys have a boy of six. Two splendid character actors to whom marriage came late in life are Alec Francis, whose wife is a most distinctive woman, and Frank Keenan, who a few years ago married a young musician many years his junior. Hobart Bosworth also married a woman much younger than himself. She had been connected with the research department of one of the studios. They have one boy. The present Mrs. Robert Edeson is also considerably younger than her husband. The first Mrs. Edeson was that talented stage actress, Mary Newcomb. The marriage of Theda Bara and Charles Brabin, the director, is one of long standing. Others who have long been married are Huntly Gordon and Mrs. Gordon, Mabel and Hugo Ballin, the Eric Maynes, the Theodore Kosloffs, T. Roy Barnes and Mrs. Barnes, Taylor Holmes and Mrs. Holmes, Mitchell Lewis and Mrs. Lewis, Stuart Holmes and Mrs. Holmes, the Dave Butlers, the Syd Chaplins, Anne Cornwall and her writer husband, Charles Maigne, Lillian Rich and her business-man husband, Eileen Percy and Ulric Busch, who by the time this article is published will have had an addition to their family, the Rov Stewarts, George Siegmann and his wife, May Lucy, who was a well-known light-opera singer a number of years ago. Mack Swain and Mrs. Swain, who is an authoress, Frank Elliott and Dorothy dimming, and the Walter Longs. The handsome Victor Varconi, who made such a deep impression in "The Volga Boatman," has been married about eight years. The event occurred abroad, of course, in Vienna. Mrs. Varconi is a typical Viennese, with an esprit such as one rarely encounters any more. She is like a Strauss waltz. And she's a goodly hostess. She was formerly a light-opera singer on the Continent and scored success in "Sari" and other operettas of that genre. When the Varconis or Vilma Banky, who is also a Hungarian, ask friends in, it always means Hungarian food and much music — fascinating folk tunes. Bob Frazer is the husband of the former Milly Bright, who played on both the stage and screen. The Frazers have been married nearly a dozen years. Warner Baxter and Winifred Bryson have celebrated their sixth anniversary. Wallace MacDonald and Doris May, their fifth ; Neil Hamilton and Mrs. Hamilton, who before marriage was interested in the producing of plays, have celebrated their fifth ; Owen Moore and Kathryn Perry, their fourth ; Jack Mulhall and Mrs. Mulhall, formerly an actress, their fourth. Jack has a son by a previous marriage. George K. Arthur and his wife, Milba Lloyd, a sculptress, have passed their fourth anniversary. The Arthurs have an adorable little girl. Lionel Barrymore and Irene F en wick, formerly a stage actress, have been married four years. Delightful people ! John Barrymore has been married for possibly six or seven years, and has a charming little daughter. Mrs. Barrymore is of a prominent New York family. She also writes, using the pen name, Michael Strange. Alice Terry and Rex Ingram have been married about five years. Rex spends so much time abroad he is al Euro X V most becoming a pean. The same may be said of the incomparable Betty Blythe, whose husband is Paul Scardon, the director. They have been married for all of five years. Betty has virtually forsaken Hollywood, but Hollywood has not forgotten her. To know Betty is never to forget her. Dolores del Rio, a comparative newcomer in the colony, has been married for four years. Her husband is a most agreeable gentleman from Mexico, and verv wealthy. Zasu Pitts a n d Tom Gallery Joseph Schildkraut and Elise Bartlett came perilously neara divorce, but now are reconciled.