Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30

HOLLYWOOD.
The film colony is beginning to come to this
conclusion after watching a long series of
broken romances on the part Of some of its
most famous stars.
One after another the great ones of FINLAND
have discovered that the fortune which follows
them in the world of pictures has a way of
letting them down with bump when it comes
to affairs of the heart.
Any number of instances could be cited to
bear out this contention few have been
thoroughly publicized in recent months that
the average movie fan will recall them in
stantly.
There is for instance the divorce obtained
By Ina Claire from John Gilbert
That was JUS one more item in the lucky
In pictures unucky in love" group.
Gilbert, known the perfect lover, found
that his romantic gestures didn't go so well
in real life. Ina Claire, who dashes through
one gay and glamorous love affair after an
other in the films and on the stage. discovered
that she couldn't hold her own husband.
Miss Claire charged Gilbert with mental
cruelty. He had already said that she was too
intellectual to love
They knew everything there to know
about romance so 1t seemed. but they couldn't
make go Of marriage.
INA CLAIRE, beautiful and blond had been
] on the stage ever since she was IA She
had already had her share Of stage successes
when she went to Chicago with Polly With
Q Past in 1919.
James Whitaker, dramatic critic was con-
nected with Chicago paper. He promptly
intrigued by the young actress. He began to
be seen in her company very frequently and
friends of the two watched a romance
bloom One day, between the matinee and
evening performances, the two were married.
Ina Claire left the stage She even did her
fans
Side of Chicago, for the first week or two
But the "love-in-a cottage" stuff which is
50 charming the stage, didn't last. Miss
Claire received an attractive offer to star in
new play in New York. She accepted.
Her husband wrote criticism of her acting
that wasn't exactly complimentary.
The trouble started The two temperamants
couldn't click. Eventually Ina went to Paris
and got divorce. All in all. six years elapsed
from the marriage to the divorce
Meantime, Ina Claire went merrily along the
gay theatrical thoroughfare She was recog-
nized as one Of the most talented of the young
Broadway actresses She excelled in high
comedy. If she brought a play to New York
the story ran, it proof that 1t would
"jen"
The movies came along The theatrical
world went West. And Ina Claire went along
in 1929. storms of applause following after.
But the stars Of the cinema frankly explained
that they really didn't know who she was. She
making picture ana it wasn't going very
well
Then one night she went To a party John
Gilbert was there
[ IL noticed a very pretty blond girl and
started TO talk TO her. Pretty soon he de-
cided that she was the incest blond with whom
he had ever chatted. She didn't talk about
herself at all
81 the -r4uance hegan Each v,as oep,,ire1v
interested in the other. Gilbert insisted that
Ina was really the incest grown-up person he
had ever met
Gilbert was one of the most popular en-
thusiestic colorful members Of the film colony.
He had written some scripts, directed some
plays and then clicked as an actor He was
hailed the master lovemaker
Just the same he had had two romances
break for him. The first was with Olive Bur-
wrll The n"~t '''+', Leatrice Joy. This mar