Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

for October 19 3 1 91 Which reminds us, another romance might well be budding between Arthur and Virginia*. Ukulele Edwards won his divorce from his wife but the lady received the court's blessing on a nice property settlement arranged before the incompatibilities began. Under this .Airs. Edwards receives $100,000 and a third of Edwards' income .... in spite of the fact that "extreme cruelty" was the charge upheld by the court against the lady. Pauline Starke finally secured her divorce from Jack White. The trouble was, she says, that Jack "disparaged her mental ability." On that basis, few wives could keep their husbands for lon°'. It's all a matter of taste. Will Hays decided that title "Gold-Diggers" wasn't quite nice, so he had it changed to "Gay Girls." So we must presume Mr. Hays thinks Gay Girls quite nice. Here's an idea! Clip your favorites' pictures from SCREENLAND and make a lamp-shade. Lillian Bond, one of the comparative newcomers in Hollywood, thinks it's great fun. You'll see more of Lillian. Lois Moran and her mamma are off to Belgium to visit little sister, who is being educated in a convent over there. Lois' mamma is a first class business man — almost the only person in Hollywood who knew when to sell her stocks before the slump. It's quite the thing to ask Mrs. Moran about investments these davs. Mildred Davis Lloyd's young brother, Jack, has covered himself with glory. Won a gold medal for allround superiority in athletics. Funny how a change of studio will often win a star success. Ina Claire was regarded as a flop by Pathe ... so much so that they bought in her unfinished contract. The picture was "The Awful Truth" and Ina still thinks it was a reasonably good picture. Yet on the stage, producers had been competing for the talents of Ina. But now, under new management, and in "Rebound" she is again rated a .starry name in pictures. Now she begins her Goldwyn contract with "The Greeks Had a Word for it" and success bubbles all around her. Ina's flippant nonsense-covering-a-heart-of-gold idea is catching" on. Now that John Gilbert and Ina Claire have finally achieved the parting of the ways, it almost seems as if every one is breathing more freely. Some of us held out hope almost until the last — but it seems to have been just one of those things. Jack and Ina were quite gallant about it all ; and here's hoping both will have better luck in the future. Mrs. Edward G. Robinson, wife of the Little Caesar fellow, is becoming a trifle alarmed since they began giving Edward "love interest" roles and blondes galore. She says she is a brunette and she doesn't think it fair they should make him cultivate a taste for blondes like that. No wonder stage actors adore a chance to play in Southern California. Take a young man named Wallace Ford, who went to Los Angeles with a stage play called "Bad Girl." After the very first performance, the fellow was offered a picture role in "Queer People." Yeah?" "Yeah! you! "Sez me! "Oh, yeah?" "Oh, yeah!" "Sez Just a couple of big gangsters, Aileen Pringle has gone vegetarian, so when Ramon Novarro accepted a dinner invitation she warned him he'd have to bring his own if he wanted meat. Ramon duly turned up with a huge roast of beef. And Ramon looks so ethereal, too ! Wally Beery and Jackie Cooper, rehearsing a scene. Southern California is breaking; out into fiesta carni