THE OLD-TIMERS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 24 (Supplement)

THE OLD-TIMERS.

Many Still Hover Around Hollywood.

In the comparatively brief life of motion pictures, silent and talking, many cycles of favourites have come

and gone. They disappear so quietly they are forgotten until someone happens to mention some former star, and then there is usually a look backward at those who are among the mighty but are seen no more.

Many of the old-timers, although out of the limelight, still hover around Hollywood. The place is full of retired screen actors as well as those active in the industry and the crowds trying to get in. Perhaps the glamour of the life revives memories of their triumphs.

The Talmadge girls, Norma, Constance and Natalie, live in Hollywood. Constance is married to Townsend Netcher, one of the fabulously rich Chicago Netchers, but they prefer the sunshine of California to the snows of Chicago. Norma may act again, and she may not. Natalie long ago gave up her screen career to be the wife of Buster Keaton and mother to his children.

William S. Hart, who celebrated his sixtieth birthway not long ago, lives quietly on his ranch near Los Angeles. Theda Bara, who is Mrs Charles Brabin, tried the stage, but is again living simply in Hollywood. Mae Marsh, who made a comeback in “ Over the Hill,” and may do other pictures, has a fine home near Pasadena.

Some of the others living near the studios are Clara Kimball Young, once considered the most beautiful woman in pictures; Helen Holmes, the - serial lady who hopped from train to train" Kathlyn Williams, another of the serial ladies, and Ruth Roland, head of that type; Seena Owen and pretty Elaine Ilammerstein, both married; May IW Avoy and Florence Vidor, married and happy, the latter as Mrs Jascha Heifetz; Julanne Johnston, Marguerita Fischer (Mrs Harry Pollard) ; Ella Hall, Enid Bennett, wife of Fred Niblo, the director; Rosemary Theby, married to Harry Myers; Wanda Hawley, pretty blonde; Ruth Stonehouse, Marguerita de la Motte.

Of the men who have left pictures but are lingering in Hollywood, besides Bill Hart, there are J. Warren Kerrigan, John Bowers, married to Marguerita de la Motte; George Walsh, who helps his brother, Raoul, direct; Stuart Holmes, once a demon in villainy.

There are scores of others who were in the spotlight and have laded from view, but they live elsewhere, awav from Kleig lights and microphones.