Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

T for June 19 3 1 125 time, people began to wonder if the sweet little Southerner had accomplished the seemingly impossible and won the heart of this elusive bachelor. But there seems to have been no cause for agitation. Ramon and Dorothy are not and declare they never have been in love. Richard Arlen often remarks that two who play love scenes together should indulge in at least a mild flirtation in order to put over the illusion of reality, but Richard has never been even mildly affected by the screen heroine since that time, years and years ago when he played a small part in a picture featuring Lois Moran. All three young men in that film thought Lois, with her long curls and baby face, just about perfection. Who were those other two, anyway? I used to meet the three of them, escorting Lois and her mother, wherever I went. During the filming of "Her Man," Helen Twelvetrees became almost certain that Phillips Holmes represented the answer to the well-known maiden's prayer. The illusion has faded, though. A good many maidens are credited with feeling the same way about this tall fair youth, and he seems to have had moments of thinking them right. But a boy's will is still a wind's will, and Phillips isn't grown up yet. Whether or not Edwina Booth and Duncan Renaldo imagined themselves in love while they were on location in Africa for "Trader Horn" seems to be a question for the courts, but after seeing the picture, I should think that if there were any members -of the company, the crew or the denizens of that continent who were not smitten with the gorgeous blonde they ought to have their heads examined. Going into the infant class, we have Mitzi Green, aged eleven, admitting the attentions of Leon Janney, aged thirteen, although she says nothing may come of it. An older but still juvenile romance is that between Joan Marsh and Billy Janney begun during a picture of last Fall, and still holding out. Is romance genuine or synthetic in Hollywood ? I don't know! Do you? -<§> Are Women Less Faithful Than Men? Continued from page 59 woman's life is an open book. Always someone wants to know where she is going, how long she will be gone and what she expects to do while away. When she returns she is asked hundreds of questions as to whom she saw, what she did, where she went, why and what of it? A man, married or unmarried, has long spaces of uncounted time. Not one thinks of questioning him." "I've hired and fired many an actor in my long stage experience," contributes Jimmy Gleason. "In all the years, I never saw an actor dragging a bunch of kids around the country, yet many an actress has done it. Faithful to the last ditch, I've found women, but a man won't inconvenience himself for anybody." "For years my mother was president of the Orphans' Home in Oakland," adds Mrs. Gleason. "In it were some 250 small children. During the whole time of my mother's connection, there was no case of mother desertion; always it was the father who had deserted the family. Up to the point of starvation the mother would try to keep the family together, faithful to the wretch who had left, in case he should some day return." Richard Dix wags his head "Yes" and shakes his head "No." "Where her man is concerned, a woman is likely to be the acme of fidelity," he explains. "A man can love a woman and become at the same time infatuated in another direction — and recover at will. If a man has any principles at all, he is likely to adhere more strictly to them than is a waman. We run in circles when we discuss this subject abstractly. A better answer would be 'Every human being is an individual case.' " Supporters of the theory that faithless-' ness is about evenly distributed between the sexes are Irene Rich and Louise Fazenda. "It depends on how much they have to do," remarks Louise. "If a woman has a lot of money and plenty of time, she likes to wander. If both she and her husband work, they are apt to be glad to see each other at the end of the day and to feel that their meeting is more of an adventure. A husband seems like a new person when you have been deprived of his company. "But a woman is unconsciously cruel when she falls out of love, especially if there are no children. Sentiment means so much to her, and when romance is gone, the once beloved is just another man and rather annoying at that — and she shows it." "Women have come to feel that old standards have fallen and they have as much right to wander as men," observes Irene Rich. "It has become a fiftyfifty affair. Women without much to occupy them, often drift into flirtation because they enjoy thrills. I don't mean to imply that these flirtations are neces Edmund Breese, veteran actor, says that women are more faithful than men. 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