The Washington times., 1924-02-14
SCREEN BEAUTY.
IN00MESTlC
TAIlGLE.
Barbara Ia Mar I Considers
Disengaging Herself From !
Husband N0!6. Hs
By DAY STONE.
Cosmopolitan News Service.

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81; News Ssrvice.) N
y HOLLYWOOD CAL, Feb. H.
Everybody along Hollywood boule-
/ ward is syinpathizing with beautiful
Barbara La Marr in the new and
perplexing turn her domestic prob
lems have taken. m !.
Babs' and husband No. S. or is
/ It No. 6?A-the Six foot, red-haired
K Jack Daugherty, are occupying
J separate apartments now.
\ sOne OF the newspapers said that
Babs'" lawyer had advised her to
do this because of the doubtful
legality Of her marriage to Daugh-
. %etty. Another Los angeles paper
4 printed a. story that .v"Babs% and
\ jack had hand-to.hAir battle: at
/ the Wainpas ball in San Francisco,
(. and that when the battle was re.
newed later in her palatial home on
/ Whitley Heights here she dra-
Anaticaily ordered him from the
4 house and told him not to return.
S. There was a whisper along the
boulevard this week that a sixth
!. Or would 1t be a seventh?-hus.
band was in prospect for "Babs"
~ she could find legal way Of un.
!. Dcralmbling her various marriages.
( hear that the next husband may
be q singer proteget a young fellow
who they brought with them when
they returned recently from New.
York and who has been making his
! home with, them. .f.,e
HI "Babs" was in court this week.
Her manager, Arthur Sawyer,
:, charges that Herman L, Roth, a
! New York and Los Angeles at
&orney, tried to blackmail him, as
well as 'Baba" by threatening to
4 name fifty-three correspondents when
y husband Mo. 5--or No. 6--Ben
peely, the comedian, sued "Babs"
|. for divorce. s.
"Babs" !, is bearing up! splendidly
Z under these unfortunate troubles
and is doing excellent work over at
the Metro studio in a. filmization
.SOf Bob Services poeml 1.-The
Shooting of Dan McGrew," and all
along the boulevard you can. hear
1t said that she; is ideally cast as
The Woman that's Known as.
Chaplin May Marry.
. VIM, Estelle Taylor become the
!. Inatron. Of Charlie Chaplin's new
I. $300,00O mansion in Beverly Hills?
~ The boulevard is wondering if
Charlie has at last found his real
love in Estelle. Hardly a night
passes but , what they are seen
I dancing in the Cocoanut ,Grovevat
the Ambassador Hotel, or sitting
tetHtete in '.Movie Corner at the
! 4ontmarte Cafe.
IA Estelle is one of the most popular
OF the younger social set Of film
land 4and her friends rallied quite
lOyally to her !suppertseboth times
when she was made the victim of
Identity. z Two years ago Seena
Owen sued her star husband, George
Walsh, for :. separate maintenance
and charged he was squandefing
his money on an "Estelle Taylor. !"
Next Mrs. George H. Barnes, the
wife Of a film cameraman, sued
for divorces and named an "Estelle
Taylor" as correspondent. In both
cases Estelle vigorously denied that
she was the "Estelle Taylor and
Everybody In Hollywood praised her
Tor taking such determined stand.
Blanche Sees Husband.
heard on the boulevard that
'Mlckey" Neilan, the director, and
! his actress-wife. Blanche Sweet,
had been seen about together
recently and were quite chunnrny,
mickey" has given up his room
@t the Los Angeles Athletic Club,
/ where he lived while Blanche made
her home at the Ambassador Hotel
with her mother
Walter Morosco, SON Of the New
{ York theatrical producer, Oliver
Morosco Whose real natneis it
MitchelD has !, picked the most
/ luscious peach Of the boulevard.
! Walter secretly married Corrinne
Griffith, star of "Black Oxen" at
!. Tia Juana, old Mexico, last week.
She only recently divorced Webster
Campbell who was also her director
but she charged he was tempera-
mentally unsuited to be either.
Walter, by the way, was always
thought to be engaged to Betty
Compson. -"