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November 1930
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WHY
Can 't The
IT GIRL
Keep Her
MEN?
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'Bj/ Laura Benham
AT THE moment the thing to do is to knock Clara Bow. Let's admit she has been making an idiot of herself in the papers. That's beyond argument. Let's admit her bad taste in letting the report get out of her settlement with a doctor's wife over the doctor's affections. Let's admit her worse taste in following this immediately by going to New \ ork to visit Harry Richman to the tune of a thousand cameras.
It's all true, but I think Clara should be sobbed over rather than scolded. For she's not bold nor brazen. The wildness, the boldness in her comes not from hardness but hunger — from the hunger that is the hardest of all to bear — heart hunger.
On the screen Clara Bow is the epitomization of sex run wild — a girl upon whose entrance into a room every woman present clutches her husband more tightly or suddenly decides it's time to go home.
Off the screen Clara has reigned in the hearts of many men. She had been engaged and engaged. She has admitted her hungering for a home and family. Yet no man has led her to the altar.
■Why has her every real-life romance flared but for a moment, then sputtered and died, leaving her with a broken heart, puzzled and wounded, hiding her hurt with a new burst of seeming abandon ?
Why can't the "It" girl get her man? Of course, Clara has sent many suitors away, as has every girl. To every woman, at some time or other, there come men whom she likes, whom she admires, whom she nearly loves — but who fail to kindle the divine spark.
So with Clara. All those who loved her have not found their way to her heart. Though it probably hurt her more than it did them, to tell them so.
But several men have moved her deeply. On more than
On the screen s/ie's sex triumphant, but off screen, tvhy won't Clara's beaux stay tied?
one occasion in her life, Clara has teetered perilously on the brink of matrimony. 'Why has she always drawn back.'
What greedy fate has wrested from her warm, eager fingers the love she was so close to realizing.''
Coursing across her path have been Gilbert Roland, Victor Fleming, Gary Cooper, Dr. Earl Pearson and Harry Richman. All but one, single at the time of her attachment — all but one, "eligible." Yet one by one, they have passed out of her life.
"Why did he stop loving me?" little "Miss BrokenHearted" writes to the "Advice to the Lovelorn" column of her hometown paper. And just as surely, Clara Bow can question the fate which has given her everything but love.
From her earliest babyhood, Clara's life has been a groping for understanding and sympathy, an upward struggle fraught with hardship and adversity. She has had to contend with every conceivable obstacle, from a haif-maniacal mother who oftimes threatened her life, to a shiftless fatlicr who, rumor has it, is paid seventy-five dollars a week by the studio merely to keep away. \Continued on page 58]