Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

for October 1930 21 Happiness? coming more intelligent, more sophisticated, and more typically cosmopolitan in their outlook on the personal lives of their favorites, and in other ways as well. Previously, many thought the players lived lives of complete, idyllic happiness. Something like every idealist has dreamed of achieving since the days of Plato! Beautiful homes, with the sun on one side, the sea on the other; cars, jewels, exquisite clothes, health, beauty, and freedom — not only from financial worries but freedom to develop in the art they love. What more could a person want than to be a star in Hollywood, we used to ask ! But now, mental grown-ups that we are, we realize that although the film actresses may possess every material comfort, frequently real love has eluded them. Take Betty Compson, for instance. Surely if any woman in the whole film colony deserves happiness she does. And she had it with her husband, Jim Cruze, for several years. But that freedom to develop in the art she loves — which we spoke of in the last paragraph — was denied her. It all happened like this : Three years {Continued on page 114) By Rosa Reilly don't want her to be divorced and turn thumbs down on her, inevitably that person's professional career is dead and she quickly passes out of the picture, if she persists in going against her public's wishes. You probably never thought of it in that light before, did you? You never realized, perhaps, just what a close relationship you personally bear to your favorite star's home and happiness ! Fortunately, with the inception of talking pictures, the film industry began to grow up. Picturegoers are fast be Reginald Denny sought second happiness with "Bubbles" and seems to have found it.