Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

What Makes a Perfect Marriage? 59 have enjoyed domestic life for about the same number of years. They have a little girl of their own, named after Zasu, and recently adopted Barbara La Marr's boy of four — an exceptional youngster, incidentally. Elliott Dexter and Mrs. Dexter recently celebrated their fourth anniversary. Miriam Cooper and her husband, Raoul Walsh, the director, belong to the group of long-wedded couples. They recently adopted two children. Two directors who are aLso actors, Erich von Stroheim and Alan Hale, are men with families. The Von Stroheim son is about four. Mrs. von Stroheim was not of the profession. Mrs. Hale, however, was. Her name many readers will recall from pictures made years ago — Gretchen Hartmann. The Hales have two children, a boy of five and a girl of two and a half. Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge have found their five years of matrimony a very brief period and are reminded of its length only when they gaze upon their two sturdy sons. Buster, Jr., is four. His Aunt Norma and Aunt Constance lovingly re-, fer to him as "the old man." Joe, the baby, is two. Hank Mann, the comedian with the melancholy eyes and forlorn bang, has been a married man for three years. Lige Conley, the same. Both are fathers of young babies. Neither Mrs. Mann nor Mrs. Conley belonged to the profession. Walter Hiers, he of the rotund contour, has done service about the same length of time. Larry Semon and Dorothy Dwan have been married about two years. Also Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby. Lila Lee and James Kirkwood, Betty Compson and James Cruze, Blanche Sweet and Marshall Neilan, Antonio Moreno and Mrs. Daisy Canfield Danziger, Lloyd Hughes and Gloria Hope, Claire Adams and B. B. Hampton, a former producer, Viola Dana and Maurice ("Lefty") Flynn, Virginia Fox and Darryl Francis Zanuck, scenario writer, Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston, Belle Bennett and Fred Windemere, director, Wallace Beery and Rita Gilman, Billie Dove and Irvin Willat, director, Barbara Bedford and Al Roscoe, Sylvia Breamer and Dr. Harry W. Martin, Evelyn Brent and B. P. Fineman, Agnes Ayres and Manuel Reachi, an attache of the Mexican government, and the Herbert Rawlinsons were all married between two and three and a half years ago. The Kirkwoods, the Rawlinsons, the Dustin Farnums, the Al Roscoes and the Reachi s have all had additions to their families. Which brings us to the marriages during the past year. Among the most recent was that of Eleanor Boardman and King Vidor, an event Hollywood had expected for some time. The separation of Florence and King Vidor three years ago gave the colony one of the severest shocks it had ever felt, or Photo by Thomas Eight years have only strengthened the devotion between Mr. and Mrs. Victor Varconi. Conrad Nagel, who has been married seven vears, can scarcely believe that Ruth Margaret is all of five years old. has felt since. Every one had been sentimental over the apparently perfect marIk riage of the two. Miss Vidor has had iBM^ the custody of their lovely young daughter, aged now about nine. It is expected that Florence too may soon remarry. The man is George Fitzmaurice. Claire Windsor and Bert Lytell, together with Mary Akin and Edwin Carewe, celebrated their first anniversary about six months ago. The two couples were married at the same time in Mexico City. Charming people, all of them, and the Carewes have a dear baby with the cute name of Sally Ann. . Monte Blue and Tove Jansen are another couple whose marriage is comparatively young. They have a bright little daughter, Barbara Ann, five months old. Monte and Tove are very real and substantial people, and decidedly in love. Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost are still ardent honeymooners and, to Continued on page 100