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first picture, Harold asked Mildred if he could come to call on her that evening and Mildred said no,' she saw enough of him all day ! But got over that. They've been married for more than eight years and are devoted to each other and to Gloria, Peggy and baby Harold.
Then there's exhibit B, the John Barrymores.
It was "The Sea Beast" that began the romance of John and Dolores, back in 1925. Those much-talkedof love scenes eventually culminated in a wedding ring. The durability of that bond has been tested by long and hazardous ocean voyages on fishing boats and yachts, shared
lately by little Miss Barrymore. one of the world's best sailors. Dolores lets John bring home gigantic, smelly sea trophies — and keep them .' The once-vagabond Barrymore has developed into an ideal husband and father.
Ain't that somethin' ?
At the same time that Dolores was succumbing to the magic of her first love scenes, her sister Helene was playing in a picture with Lowell Sherman. Yet we can't blame
They are billed as "the screen's favorite lovers" — but Janet is Mrs. Lydell Peck and Charlie is Mr. Virginia Valli! You'll still thrill to their screen romances.
Tender interludes in "Wolf Song" between Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez got in their work. Tha t romance seems permanent. Some say Gary and Lupe were married sometime ago.
When little blonde Mildred Davis became Harold Lloyd's leading comedienne, one of Hollywood's real romances began.
And those Dolores Costello-John Barrymore love scenes in "The Sea Beast" have been going on ever since — in real life.
their subsequent marriage on that because Lowell set to work and married the other girl in the opus, Pauline Garon, and both he and Helene had to divorce first mates before the) found their present happiness together.
Sometimes the public reads romance into pictures when no romance is there. For years fans strove to get Richard Dix married to Lois Wilson, Ronald Colman interested in Yilma Banky, and Charles Farrell wedded to Janet Gaynor, and John Gilbert married to Greta Garbo.
Richard and Lois were and are sincerely fond of one another, in a friendly fashion, and outside insistence on Cupid almost wrecked a beautiful thing.
Charlie and Janet seemed enamoured of one another during the making of "Seventh Heaven," but publicity was fatal to the boyand-girl romance. They played up to what was expected of them and the next thing they knew the dew was off the rose, the bloom gone from the grape, the sawdust leaking from the doll, and the little god roaming other pastures. Janet married Lydell Peck and now Charlie has married Virginia Valli. No amount of billing as "the screen's favorite lovers" will make any difference now.
Ronald and Yilma were never "that way" about each other.
"We're just like an old married couple — there's no thrill to it." Yilma used to explain in her quaint way, "if the scene tells kiss or make (Continued on page 124)