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His promises to her
Will he keep them after the honeymoon?
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Making Hollywood Safe for Matrimony
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1 I JJ UT JOHN, you promised before we were married that I wouldn't have to ask for money, that you would give me an allowance !"
"I don't care what I promised. I don't believe in a woman having money of her own. A woman doesn't know how to take care of money.'' I
Does that sound familiar, ye married women?
"I don't care what I promised!" So many pre-nuptial promises, made in the first rapturous ccstacy of the betrothal, have died under that edict.
But the doom of the fragile, meant-to-be-broken promise between husband and wife has sounded, and Hollywood film stars with matrimonial troubles of their own are helping to sound it.
They are backing with prayers and plaudits the bill introduced by the National Woman's party, which will make ante-nuptial contracts legal and enforceable by law. And provisos agreed upon during the romantic epoch would be as
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By ANNE WILLE
How the Marriage Contract W ill Insure Domestic Harmony in Filmdom
binding as contracts between business partners.
The possibilities opened up by
Screen love scenes mean nothing, they tell us. Probably when Rodolph Valentino takes his lady love into his strong arms in the fade-out clinch, he is thinking of his police dogs . . . and she is counting them.
this proposed bill are obvious and delectable. One of the terms of the ante-marriage contract might limit the number of location trips the film spouse may take a year. It might determine the exact length of the fade-out kisses to be indulged in. It might even determine the number of nights each week | friend husband should remain at home to mind the future son and j heir. / »
Domestic harmony in the film I colony should surely be insured by some such arrangement. Though why a movie star should ever feel the need of any domestic life or love interest is one of the most incomprehensible of all the known examples of graft. They are so deluged with it on the screen. One would suppose I that love would be the last diver>,! sion selected for their leisure.
ancy Rodolph Valentino desiring any more domestic perquisites than accorded him on the screen by Lila Lee in Blood and Sand,
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