Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03
MIRIAM HOPKINS
| ROMANCE FADING
Blond Film Beauty Finds
! Marriage Doesn't Work
& in Hollywood.
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August s.
Hollywood's mind Is at rest regarding
that little Miriam Hopkins-Austin
Parker marriage. The most dynami-
cally attractive blonde in the colony
and the only real blonde Of the Ceindre
type I can call to mind-says matri-
lmony with Austin Parker doesn't work.
/ The colony has suspected that for
some time, every since Miriam Hopkins
ey.iyad here. Occasionally the two APP
peared together at luncheon, very
friendly and gay, for this lady has poiSe,
and brains, and sparkle, and manner be-
yond most of the women Of her pro-
feSSion.
None of that sparkle has been dimmed
BY her matrimonial difficulties. one
would say that it was impossible for
any human creature to be more en-
chantingly gay than is this actress. The
gloom seems to come from the Parker
side of the household.
Hard on Matrimony.
It's not much of business for ce-
fnenting the bonds of matrimony at
that. Claudette Colbert and her hus-
band, Norman Foster, just can't man
age to keep at the same end OF this
wide country no matter how hard they
may try. When Colbert is making pic
lures on the East Coast, Norman Is as
signed to West Coast Paramount studio.
Then a quick shift is made and hus-
band is sent on to the Long Island
studio. Felicity reigns. But not Tor
long. Claudette Colbert is sent out to
Hollywood, pronto.
Nancy Carroll worked on the East
Coast for some time back. During her
marital troubles with Kirkland she was
a permanent figure at the Long Island
studio and the gay and charming sup
per places of New York were frightened
by this titian-haired beauty frequently
Then she met Bolton Mallory, fell In
love with him and got Nogales divorce
They married at once and the studio
true as steel to its previous history, I'M
mediately brought Nancy Carroll to the
Hollywood studio.
It's not any malicious move on the
part of men who are good natured and
believe that all artists work better when
under happy circumstances. It's just
the old movie devil at work.
Durante's Star Climbs.
Jimmy "Schnczzle" Durante. the ia
NOUS "so-I-upS-to-hinn" comedian, Is at
present the rage of Hollywood. His wit
and comic antics are such that he has
been put in the Marx Brothers class
for cleverness and in Hollywood this Is
the last word.
Incidentally, Durante will begin work
next week in William Haines' new pic
ture, 1.-The New Wallingford," and, &C
rcording to rumor, he will have a part in
Lawrence Tibbett's new picture, which
has been called 1.-THE Cuban" or rather
this is the working title, and may be
changed many times before the picture
is released.
So far Tibbett has made three pic
lures fer Neutrality-suspicious. and in
two of them has had the support of well
known comedians. The Rogue Song
had Laurel and Hardy in it; and 1.-THE
Prodigal' had Cliff Edwards and Roland
Young as tramp comedians.
Now with Jimmy Durante nosing his
way into Tibbett's newest film, we're
prepared to laugh in advance.
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