Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

Below, in order, Vivienne Segal, Natalie Moorhead Colleen Moore Film folk who are saying ''We will!"-We do!' —"We're through!" DANIEL CUPID will have to step on it if he wants to keep pace with dat ole davil divorce. Just when Hollywood was beginning to pride itself on its number of tried-and-true marriages, along came two shocks within the same month. Colleen Moore sued John McCormick for divorce, and on the heels of that announcement came the news that Betty Compson and Jim Cruze had reached the parting of the ways. Colleen claimed mental cruelty, filed her papers and a property settlement was arranged out of court. Immediately afterward, John plunged recklessly in the stock market and won $80,000 at one shot. Pocketing that roll, he sailed for Honolulu. Betty Compson also claimed mental cruelty and further explained that Cruze kept their home filled with guests, invited and uninvited, to such an extent that she could never rest. Betty and Jim separated about a year ago but went back together. Everyone thought they had reached a permanent attitude of live and let live, so word of the definite break came as a surprise. Hollywood has brought more than screen fame to Vivienne Segal and William Boyd, both of the New York stage. Vivienne came west to appear in Warner Brothers productions and Boyd made his film debut in The Locked Door for United Artists. The couple met at a party and a romance developed. Now, Boyd is superintending the building of Miss Segal's new Malibu cottage and it is suspected that they will use it for a honeymoon. When Lewis Milestone returns from his trip abroad, wedding bells will ring for him and Agnes Ayres. The couple announced their engagement prior to his departure from Hollywood. Miss Ayres was at one time the wife of Manuel Reachi, prominent South American, and Mr. Milestone has heretofore escaped the toils of matrimony. By the time this reaches print, Natalie Moorhead will probably be Mrs. Alan Crosland. Two divorces within the past year have helped the cause of true love between this charming couple. Some time ago Miss Moorhead was the wife of Raymond H. Phillips and when a Reno dispatch trumpeted the divorce, both professed to know nothing about it. This will also be Crosland's second marriage, his first wife, Mrs. Juanita Fletchet Crosland, having obtained a Paris decree recently. Some months ago Crosland and Phillips enjoyed a fisticuff encounter near Miss Moorhead's home. Phillips was taken to a police station in Beverly Hills but was later released. Dorothy Dwan, widow of Larry Semon, is going to try matrimony again. She has announced her engagement to Paul N. Boggs, Jr., prominent young business man of Beverly Hills. Miss Dwan was a well-known aaress several years ago at the time she married Larry Semon and retired from the screen. Upon his death, she tried to effea a comeback, but without much success. So, she entered her mother's publicity business, and gave up all thought of furthgr appearance on the screen. Mr. Boggs is the son of the vice-president of the Union Oil Company, one of the largest corporations on the coast, and is himself an official of that organization. The wedding will be a quiet one, after which the couple will take a short honeymoon trip. Upon their return they will move into a completely furnished new home, the gift of the groom's parents. Dorothy Jordan has one of the nicest beaus in Hollywood. He is Lieut. Chester Lewis, a young aviator, and he proves his devotion by sending an orchid a day. Now other Hollywood girls are asking Dorothy her system. But we venture to say that mighty few girls could train them this way.