The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-05

and final separation. Miss La inarr, who became an international star by swimming naked in her first movie, sued Producer Gene Markey for divorce. Miss Landis the self f-described fugitive from a leg art career, said she had to use exceptional forbearance to make her marriage last an even 50 days. They agreed that welded bliss was a snare and a delusion, though Barrymore, who has been married so often he sometimes loses count, wouldn't promise not to give it an- other try.
 No Man Is Safe
 t'No man is safe-so long as there are women in the world" he opined from the isolation of his iron-barred mansion on Tower road. Even as he told how he had left his raven-haired Elaine Q week ago, never to return, a woman who identified herself as his wife's secretary was telling reporters that the Barrymores were like two tur- tie doves.
 This, said Barrymore, was lie. He said he and his Elaine had suf- fered what the fan magazines call a rift"
 And I hasten to explain that a rift is like a boil,' he added. Tt develops gradually"
 Established in the caretakers' quarters of his multi-roomed house, which he described as looking like a "Chinese tenement" Barrymore said he expected Elaine would file divorce proceedings shortly.
 He said that he still considered his wife "a very sweet person" and an excellent actress" Mrs. Barry more last left him when he spanked her too hard during their co-star- ring stage tour of My Dear Chil- dren" last winter. She appeared in one motion picture, a two-reeler entitled: How to Undress Before Your Husband"
 q understand she is going to take further dramatic lessons and I predict she will go far" he said. As for himself, he will remain in his mansion, even though most Of the furniture was auctioned off a few months ago to help meet his debts. He expects to star in at last two more movies.
 "E'u play Santa Claus in one of them," he said.
 BeauteOuS Lamar
 The beauteous Miss Lamar, who married Markey after Joan Bennett had divorced him, charged him in court with cruelty, unspecified. She said they had reached a property settlement and that she wanted no alimony; only freedom.
 Miss Lamar was star of the Czechoslovakian film, 'Extase, :" which the federal government sub jected to intensive censorship be- fore allowing its exhibition in Amer ica. Even then it showed glimpses of the smoothly rounded Hedy paddl- ing in the nude in water crystal clear.
 She came to America soon there after, divorced her first husband, an Austrian munitions maker, and de- voted herself to looking beautiful, but in clothes, on the Hollywood screen.
 Miss Landis eloped to Las Vegas, New, exactly two months ago with William Hunt, yacht broker. She left him last night, announced that she would seek a divorce imme- diately, and said it hadn't really taken her the full 60 days to dis cover that they were incompatible
 She is the well-curved blonde who appealed to newspaper editors a couple of months ago to throw away all the bathing suit photos of her in their files. She charged that her studio publicity depart ment had turned her into a fugi- tive from leg art career and had focused attention of movie fans on her body, instead of on her art.