Screenland (Apr–Sept 1923)

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28 SCREENLAND d. He was willing to work — but only his wife. the bootlegger with the regularity of a gas collector. Priscilla waned until the casting directors tagged her "too thin for work." The suit for divorce was given an airing in the local courts, but the Santa Claus of the film industry was here at the time, and the case was dismissed. The painful shattering of the romance between Wanda Hawley and Allen Burton Hawley caused much grief in our little village Rialto. Allen owned a garage and Wanda lent her Dresden charms to the pictures. Everything seemed beautiful — for a time. A charming picture of Wanda smiled down from the garage wall at customers. But somehow, Wanda and Allen couldn't "jell." "He wouldn't work," wailed his wife in her complaint. "He — he — oh dear ! he drank. Nasty stuff in tall, thin glasses I" A few weeks later Wanda, all disguised as Selma Hawley, appeared in the Federal Building and asked for a passport to Europe. Just like that — Europe. The officials were charmed. The officials were stunned. And the officials were doubtful. Surely this was Wanda Hawley, the beauteous blonde Lasky star ? But no, the figurine smiled and said she was just Selma Hawley, housewife, and was going abroad with her manager. The insouciance was respected, and Wanda got her passport. Allen, from the home of his brother-in-law in New York, growled bearishly. He hinted darkly that the life of a movie husband was not all beer and skittles. She named him for the smudge on the marriage license? It was to laugh! The Hawley forecast is still "unsettled with indications of stormy weather" when Wanda and her manager return from abroad. A, A Spiritual Causus Belli .dele oden'hal, known to fame as Adele Howard, asserted briefly that the cash to buy calories was used for spirits frumenti. Frank borrowed her money and played the 'cello — a mean combination. Why 'cello? Now if Frank had played the zither we'd understand. Maybe Adele had a 'cello complex. A screen actress whose life has been embittered through matrimony is Charlotte Pierce. Charlotte, who is Mrs. Ver