Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-13
H @ Ii Y " @ @ D
by
Paul
Harrison
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD, Jan 13.-ThiS
departments bureau of marital
statistics and domestic turmoil has
just emerged from its cloister with
a heartening report on the year
l941. It seems the marriages Of
Hollywood people Outnumbcrrd the
divorces 81 to 46
This is an unprecedented score
and must be significant of some
thing, whether boom in pure
stntimentallty or Il drawing to-
gether Of movie folk fOr comfort
and security i'll uncertain times
True. there were a couple of fun
bleS among the marriages: Moon
struck Judy CanoVa'S VOWS, eX-
changed with Private James Rip
ley in Honolulu. were annuled; and
Mary Brian and Jon Whitcomb,
who told it to preacher in May,
already have recanted to judge.
Those errors, though, are more
than balanced on the romantic side
by three couples who decided they
had been too haSty about divorces
in previous years. Thomas Mitch
ell married his former wife Anne
Brewer HER, Robert Armstrong re-
married Claire Louise Armstrong;
and Stan Laurel, apparently as be-
Wildered as his friends by series
of lmpulSiVe entanglementS. per-
suaded Virginia Ruth Laurel to try
it again.
TWO-TIMERS
Many of the movie figures who
went to their own weddings in 1871
were saying Il do" for the Sec
ond, third or fourth time. In fact,
practically all the weddings Of any
prominence, except thai Of Deanna
Durbn and Vaughn Paul, involved
enc or more divorced people. Even
Judy Garland drew Il grass WidoWer
in Dave Rose. eXhuSband of Mar
tina Raye; and Gene Tierney, in
coming MIS-. Oleg CaSsini, got the
23-year-Old former mate OF Merry
Fahrney, patent medicine heireSS.
What with the marriage OF Cas-
SIM Pat Di CiccO, Franchot Tone
and Victor Mature, the ranks Of
HollyWoodS n-about-tCWn were
considerably tninned Most notable
playboyS now at large are Enrol
Flynn separated, if not quite di-
vorced. from Lii Damitab, and
Bruce Cabot who were usher and
best man, respectively, at the Dl
Cicco- Gloria Vanderbilt wedding.
The year was romantlcally
busy Gne for the oftcn-marrlcd
Westmorc brothers, a family OF
studio makeup men. Perc married
Mrs. Julietta NOViS, Ern married
Betty Heron. and Buddy married
Rosemary Lane. The other Lane
sisters also got into the records
with a marriage for Lola and Il di-
vorce for Priscilla.
Surprise OF the year was the
marriage of Bette Davis to Arthur
FarnsNorth. executive of an cas,cln
airplane accessory company.
THEY ADMIT 1T
There we're few normal wedding
ceremonies. but there was less shy
ness among Hollywood people about
admitting marriage and divorce
plans. Only two secret marriage
were discovered-those of Director
Gregory La Cava and Mrs. Grace
Garland, and Jack Buetel and
Cereatha Browning.
Plaintiffs in divorce cases gave
the movie colony few laughs in
l941. oldest details were those set
forth by Sally payne in divorclng
William Telaak, a gag writer She
said he wouldn't let her drink
milk, eat liver or oysters, part her
hair on the left side or register to
vote. She charged that he told
iIer what to wear, how to walk,
not to talk in front of groups of
people because she never made
any sensr,' and that he objected
to her knitting because "hc said
l always got Stupied expression
nm my face when | knitted -"