Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-30
THE MOVIE FANS
LETTERBOX
3, HENRY NJ. NEELY

Latest divorce. marriage gossip. quot.
cd direct from New York. follows:
Friends Of Kenneth Harlan. leading
man In the movies, and his former wife.
Florence Harlan. once Of the Xiegfeld
'Follies.' were busy yesterday discuss.
ing their new marital plans. On No.
vcmber 10 lust in the Supreme Court
Justice Giegericl, signed an interlocu.
tory divorce decrea in an action brought
BY Mrs. Harlan. o.
"Harlan. It wns reliably reported,
would marry Marie Provost. another
movie star, who rose to fame as one
Of the original Mack Sennett bathing
beauties. She has since been starred by
Universal in willful flnppcr types with
hearts Of gold. and she is 10 play the
leading role in the film version of r.
Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful aud
Damned -
| 'Iiarlan has made his mark prin.
cipally as leading man for Constance
Talmadge. Several times he played cave =
man roles on the screen. Ills wife first
sued him in October. 1921. asking d
separation. She declared he occasionally
emulated the cave man off the screen
threw her againVt a window and knock
cd her down In The street. In his reply
Harlan charged that she drank too
much.
Eventually there was n recon
ciliatiOn. but It did not lust. In April
last she sued for divorce. asserting that
Harlan passed two days In Atlantic
City with n young woman when ht
was supposed to be ut sea making q
marine scene for a film in support Of
Alice Brady. lie Is ut present playing
the lead in "Thc Toll Of the Sea. til,
first picture made according to the new
tcchnicolor process. lie and Mrs. llar.
Ian were married. on June 20. 1920.
Mrs. Harlan is being spoken Of Il.
the possible bride of Lowell Sherman
we'll. known stage and screen villain
now playing IN "rhc Fool lie was Ill.
vOrccd March - last BY Mrs. Evelyr
Booth Sherman IN Providence, Il. I
The suit was uncOntpsted. She allegct
cruelty and neglect to provide. The!
were married In Chicago in 1911"
Thomas j. Clark writes: "I hav'
had many u laugh from your column
II and the sports page IRE the saucer y
milk.
Now want to ask favor, Pleas,
don't advise the fans to write letters o
coincidence to the Shrek Can't 20,
imagine what n pouter pigeon he'll BE-
come IL these nutty women don't let up
And az for De Rochefort. why don
they ut least wait until they see him
Give him chance. They will go to Sc
him fully determined not to like him
l agree with yOu---he needs sympathy.
~, too, think Navarro very clever
Oh. man, that column Of yours vii
burn utter DE ROchefort's first releas
is shown here!
"Can YOU tell me anything abou
Clara X. YOung's next picture. and d
YOU know that both she and he
father were members Of the Orpheur
stock company ut the old Chestnu
Street Theatre for n while!
"Just saw CLANCY In Shadows iii
make. up waE wonderful. but. as usual
I had 10 sit through an awful ragged
first--'a Ham comedy Why do the
do It?
"Again my heartiest thanks for tn
laughs. c. dc NJ. is the greatest, etc.
(Clara Kimball Young next in 9TH
Woman in Bronze" after We see "En
ter Madame" ! don't know what In
become of "The Hand Of Nara whic
, nrecetled ENTER Madame in the max
Inc, It seems to have Huttered an
died.