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Are Men Necessary?
Renee Adoree, since her divorce from Tom Moore, has found that she can get along quite well without a master of the house.
Eugene
had been
Dombski in the old
country.
Another of the beautiful Beverly Hills estates to which no Romeo is accredited is occupied by Marion Davies. High above the city, with palms, flowers, and shrubbery in profusion, she lives with a retinue of servants. Japanese gardeners constantly are at work on the lawn and among the flower beds. Four magnificent limousines are in her garage. A private swimming pool is at the rear of the house. The star is domiciled in regal splendor, the like of which Shakespeare's Juliet never dreamed of.
Some distance away is the home of Florence Vidor. She and King Vidor, director, came to the parting of the ways two years ago. King went off
into the hills and built a home of his own. Florence took the pretty residence in Beverly. There she lives to-day, surrounded by servants, but her Romeo has fled. King felt that married life hampered him in his work. Florence had her career. The two had driven out of Texas in a flivver years before to fight their way to fame in cinemaland. They had progressed. King had become a director, and Florence a star. Then their temperaments clashed. Neither, it is said, wanted to be an audience while the other told of his day's accomplishments. The inevitable resulted. They separated. When Florence filed suit for divorce, King did not protest.
"If you would develop mentally and artistically to the fullest," he said, "you should not be hampered with domestic responsibilities. Now I feel that I can develop to my greatest — give the best I have. A genius simply must walk in the wet, wild woods in his wild, lone way."
Yet King recently married Eleanor Boardman. He found that walk "in the wet, wild woods in his wild, lone way" too lonesome.
Unostentatious is the home of Irene Rich. It is a pretty residence surrounded by flower beds and semitropical trees. In the rear is a private swimming pool, where she and her two daughters take a daily plunge. No Romeo has ever dwelt in that Hollywood home. Miss Rich and her husband were divorced before she took up picture work.
One of the most attractive estates in the whole Beverly Hills section is occupied by Mrs. Gladys Sills, who divorced Milton Sills some time ago. A rustic garden planted with strange flowers and shrubs, a fish pond, a yard set with trees from the Orient, a magnificent residence finished in white. But no balcony ! The Romeo is gone. He recently married Doris Kenyon.
There is the home of Alia Nazimova on a three-acre tract. It was recently converted into a villa after her romance with Charles Bryant waned and died. Nazimova herself superintended the planting of the beautiful gardens around her residence.
There is the retreat of Pauline Frederick far out on the road to the beach, which long stood untenanted, with the terraced lawn and the flower beds neglected. When Miss Frederick divorced Doctor Charles Rutherford, Seattle Continued on page 100
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Clara Bow many wooers reported engaged many times, but she still lives singly and happily in her little bungalow.
Since Florence Vidor and King Vidor came to the parting of the ways, Florence has been both master and mistress of her pretty home in Beverly Hills.