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Se oe THE EVENING WORLD, _MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922, 't the Movie'Real‘Life Stories eres Like the REEL | Ms i ~ Life Stories? (ary In the First ‘‘Close-Ups,’’ So Often Frown in the Final ‘‘Fade-Outs’’? CHARLES CHAPLIN AND MILDRED HARRIS CHAPLIN KEYSTONE View enoTo By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Oopyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Company. Perhaps the explanation of the many infelicities in Reel Life is summed up in the statement of Mildred Harris Chaplin. She says, You can’t make a genius husband a fireside companion. Don’t wed a genius, even if he tells you that you are his sole inspiration, because it won't last long. IT CAN’T. HY aren't the movie real life love stories like the REEL life love stories? in interview e et re bk Why do the great- le n h a The next day b 4” said the young wife, She declared in an interview that she ! | soores and hundreds of difficult roles, whose baby had d y would never marry again, as she lays of its birt “wanted her freedom," but befor #0 often score a failure in the role of est stars of the screen, successful in the ; ; but three days and ; month was out she became the brid _ cheapapabiad ery unhappy over the fact tha saic gM 5’ Fairbanks. | Hundreds of thousands of disen- ne tes fy chanted movie fans must be asking bright, gay, always sr g role in a lite« themselves these questions, for In the 2use I was a woman and wanted ten- as di ed from a reel life—de derness tle ction just at mesttc a fee Bee Ge. ones ae ABT? that time he was disgusted with me. days after his trip East with Charlg read of the matrimonial misfortunes ate cba dip hen’ Umeeded! Bim Chaplin vans OMacy Vicktor, lon 4 t of each individual member of that Cal ne (he eae ee MiUriVindi Liber vaeen tury ile etter y all-star quartet, the so-called “Big “you can't make a genius husband Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks, gave out 14 Four’ of the moving picture world— a fireside companion. Don’t wed a 4 statement in New York admitting i Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, genius, even if he tells you that you thelr final separat She said it was 4 are hile cele piration, because it to protect herseif and her seven-year- i Charlie Chaplin—and now William Se dle eerie oe Giaiesay Datelagsin centers ak «tela . Charlie hasn't yet tried matrimony daughter of Daniel J, Sully, the ‘cote a It is Hart, the rough-and-ready again, although when his engagement ton king,"’ and had been married in lover of so many ‘‘dramas of the to May Collins was reported a year 1907 to ‘‘Dotis’ of the athletic Great West where men are MEN, ago he admitted he was “flattered.” Prow nd the wide, gleaming smile. And he told me himself, last summer She clared at first that there and yet even the roughest craves the that he ‘certainly wanted to marry Would be no divorce proceedings. Her love of a Good Woman'—you know again—very mu So far, however, busband, who had returned to the how the caption goes—it is the samo his matrimonial score must be marked West, attributed the whole story to keen-eyed, square-chinned W. 5S. a failure. Another fadeout showing conjugal UNHAPPINESS fer a movie erman propaganda.’ Then Mrs irbanks asserted. that her husband K Hart, whose pictured countenance has star was a reputed income of a mill- )#d admitted his love for a famous given a thrill to so many little ion a year! film actress, and said she had been waitresses and ribbon-counter girls, Although the union of Douglas ‘he cause of all the trouble Ungu: ee eee Fairbanks and Mary Pickford seems When the divorce actually took eee ene a successful to date, this famous sereen Place, in December, 1918, the eco latest to crack up. lover and equally famous sweetheart respondent was not named. Mrs And he's been married only a ittle MARY PICKFORD AND over stx month. OWEN MOORE B was on the seventh of last De found love and marriage a failure the Fairbanks received the custody of ber first time trying. ‘Their romance 80M, and financial arrangements were doesn't at all follow the lines of the “amicably settled.’” A few days after popular seenarios. her interlocutory decree became fina cember that dainty, youthful, pretty It was only a trifle over two years She was married in the Charch of th: Winifred Westover, herself a motion ago that ‘America's Sweetheart Ascension by the Rey, Percy Stick kney merely the usual stories and pleturcs picture actress and the daughter of a to illustrate the Gladys Mary Moore, to give her legul Grant, to an old friend of her family supreme happiness Sen Francisco newspaper man, prom- °! an ¢ nume—obtained a divorce at Mindon, James Evans jr. He ts a well-known wedded pair, but there was Nev., forty-five miles outh nouncement that Hart intended Reno, oil man of Pittsburgh and New York ise@ to love, honor and obey the two- to forsake even his art in order to wer of the screen. There wa sun lo’ WA8 devote his life to making his bride from Owen Moore, the young motion Owen Moore also took a second Septembe Whe est and most obscure admirers suc- 1 eedings or not I ceed—failed in their matrimonial re- d weddea picture actor, whom she had married matrimonial plunge plates divorce prc early days of her career, but Kathryn Perry, to whom New Yor i} a charming story, at that time, about happ have no kflowledge s Honk in the early days of her career, but w York } ii diffid t. it A : from whom she had been separated artists once awarded a golden apple 1 Hart's exceeding lence as a And now—the little girl-wife has In any even seems e cl Mildred Harris Chaplin, who mar rian tas cemasianvac? th oa Memnerita ceeceniurananniunererian ice eee (ee ai fon ese) Ams as the most beautiful girl in the etty 17m > weeer. A confirmed bachelor, he 8°8¢ home to mother, at No. 307 the “fa si 1e funniest ma 8 Narco cial rr eee ea Ae cae yer etp ine . i Washington Avenue a Monica for one of the million-dollar-a-year when she was only seventeen, found * 7 was said to be so devoted to the girl \ sweet, childish pout and smile, pub- outs of conjugal woe were succeeded Cal., and "ill'’ Hart is alone in his masters of the movies 1a differ- her marriage a failure in less than two i A H caglatesinie bl ti @ Bis choice that he actually didn't yroywood 1 He himself } cat Meadpout"! trom the familiar one years, Appareniiy the comedian.licly acknowledged iher failure in, the, by sequela resistoring bllss—-po tar aa . role of happy wife Choking with the reels have been eun off | dage risk putting the question in per- stated of un.ted lovers flashed almost night- didn't make life a very amusing #!- Naverhel 8 be t é seived sobs on the witness stand, she said evertheless, it almost seems to be © som, and therefore sent a fervent but ‘Mrs. Hait and myself separated ly on the screen in the moving 1 fair for his bride. Before she received and a few diMdent proposal by mail. He got #Pout three weeks a days later property contracts were rted her 4 law that triumph before the camera her decree, for cruelty, in November, that her husband had ¢ that he had “1 away catastrophe In the home. Tne Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , she made more than one public first in 191 the “yes” back by wire, according to a executed making ample provisions tor DOuAS = FAIRBANKS MRS BETH I SULLY FAIRBANKS Pouce: Fs her maintenance, as well as for our preme successes of the sureen who Charlie's wife. Perhaps the most pa- pleas that he return. end happily, But what's the matter anh t a toment of her. unhappiness as from her months at a time despite her big screen stars make their scenarios i She obtained a decree for desertion. with thelr domestic dramas? After the marriage there were not unborn child, which ts exp: in have failed where many of their poor- thetic utterance was !n the course of She obtained a dec 1 rtiot 4 \ ’ 3 ‘ 7 re a