CLARA BOW WEDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

CLARA BOW WEDS.

Marries Young Nevada Rancher. LOS ANGELES, December 10. Clara Bow, the film actress, and Rex Bell, a screen artist who portrays cowboy roles, have been married. Clara Bow, who was born in New York in 1906, of Scottish parents, was introduced to the screen by winning abeauty competition while still as school. She made her debut in 1926. Soon she was hailed as a film genius and won world fame and fortune because Elinor Glyn declared her to be the personification of “ It.” Her engagement to Harry Richman, the stage star, was announced early this year, but it was broken off, and shortly afterward Clara Bow was admitted to hospital with a knife wound in the chest. She suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to a sanatorium. Later, on the advice of Rex Bell,, a young rancher, she went with a nurse to his ranch in the Nevada desert, 40C miles from Hollywood, to recuperate Pie counselled her to “ cut adrift from the caviare and late nights and try stewed rabbit and dawn risings ” on hii ranch.