CULT OF MOTHERHOOD
HOLLYWOOD'S LATEST GRAZE LONDON, April 2. Do iilm stars make good mothers? Maternity is Hollywood’s latest craze, and many of its most famous stars have given up gaiety and Bohemianism to encourage the cult of motherhood. The newest member of the cult is Bessie Love, in private life Mrs W. Hawks, who gave birth to a daughter the other day. Gloria Swanson, wife of Michael Farmer, coyly admits that sho is_ expecting a new arrival, who will join her daughter, Gloria, born when the star was the wife of Herbert Somborn, a Hollywood cafe owner. Dolores Costello, otherwise Mrs John Barrymore, is also expecting a playmate soon for her two-year-old daughter. Bebo Daniels and Ben Lyons are parents of a daughter born only a few mouths ago, and another actress who can prove she can also be a mother is Norma Shearer, who recently became the fond mother of a handsome baby boy.
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Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 9
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