HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)

HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES.

FEWER DIVORCES SOUGHT. FAMOUS PLAYERS' ROMANCES. The year 1931 was a good year for Cupid in cinema circles. In Hollywood, home of America's third largest industry, 26 screen couples were united and only 16 marriages were dissolved, while one couple, the Gleasons, actually celebrated their silver wedding. It was also an exceptionally romantic year because most of the newly-married players are world-famous stars of the talkies. Among them are Constance Bennett and the Marquis de la Falaise, Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer, Winifred Coe and Richard Dix, June Collyer and Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard and William Powell, Dorothy Mackaill and Neil Miller, Virginia Valli and Charles Farrell, Helen Twelvetrees and_ Frank Woody (who were married twice: in Reno on March 21 and again in Santa Cruz on April 21), Clara Bow and Rex Bell, Kay Francis and Kenneth McKenna, Mary Astor and Dr. Franklin Thorpe, Lola Lane and Lew Ayres, Nancy Carroll and Bolton Mallory, Sirs. Rhea Langham and Clark Gable, Nan Sutherland and Walter Huston, Arline Judge and Wesley Ruggles, Hazel Woolf and Lewis Stone. Other film weddings of 1931 were celebrated between Marjorie Moss and Edward Goulding, Virginia Shelley and Frank Albertson, Beatrice Powers James Kirkwood, Eleanor Merry and Tom Moore, June McCloy and Schuyler Schenck, Marjorie Rambeau and Francis Gudger, Mary Nolan and Wallace Macreery, Dorothy Appleby and Morgan Galloway, Rita La Roy and Ben Herschfield. From those gains losses must be subtracted for the dead or dying romances of Helene Costello and Lowell Sherman, Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey, Jenet Gattis and John McCormick, Frances Marion and George Hill, Grace and Lawrence Tibbett, Ann and Don Alvarado, Dorothy Lee and James Fidler, Irene Rich and David Blankenhorn, Loretta Young and Grant Withers, Ginger Rogers and Jack Pepper, Ina Claire ajid Jack Gilbert, Jeane Kent and Robert Armstrong,

Edna Murphy and Mervyn Le Roy, Edna May Oliver and D. W. Pratt, Frances Beranger and Don Cook, Mrs. and Mr. Cliff Edwards. . Over divorces accomplished or impending there is a net gain of ten marriages for the year. Hollywood is reforming. Babies, once, unfashionable among film stars, were also popular during 1931. Ten is the total score, and a very commendable birth-rate among a community whose careers demand almost constant appearance on the screen. The first of the year was Harold Lloyd, junior. Weighing only 21b. 14oz. at birth, and an incubator case, he is now a sturdy youngster of The film city showed a preference for girls, for only two other boys were born into cinemaland last year, Reginald Leigh Denny, junior, on October-28, and Albert Louis Werker on November 6. . Heralding the seven girls came Patricia, daughter of Diana and George Fitzmaurico, born on June 2. The 17th of the same month made proud parents of Bcrnio Fineman, the producer, and Margaret de Millo, who named their baby Judith. Daughter of the former Shirley Mason, Sheila May Lanfield made her debut on July 14; Mary Esther Ralston Webb was born to Esther Ralston and George Webb on August 10; Daryllin Zanuck arrived on August 28, and was named after her father, Daryll Zanuck, executive head of the Warner-First-National studios; Barbara Bebe Lyon made the first of the Bebe Daniels-Ben Lyon family on September 9; and on October 7 the hardpressed stork delivered Judith Goelz to Edith Mayer and William Goetz,