GIVEN NO CHANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 649, 29 September 1933, Page 6

GIVEN NO CHANCE

WOMAN LAWYER EXPLAINS MARRIAGE TANGLES OF FILM STARS. HOLLYW|OOD NO PARADISE. Miss Fanny Hotzmann, one of the youngest women lawyers in the United States, had some interesting re-mai-ks to make about Hollywood marriages when she was interviewed during a recent visit to England. Her knowledge of international affairs and finance told of the long hours of study at Fordham University and since, and explained why she had been briefed for many important company cases (states the Daily Mail.) Much of her time lately has been devoted to the straightening out of Hollywood's matrimonial tangles, and it was of this she spoke first: — "In my opinion," said Miss Holtzmann, :'film stars in search of married happiness have the odds against them from the start. "As Much Privacy as Goldfish" "They are temperamental, emotional, and handicapped by the nvcroseopic eye of a million fans eager to hear the smallest news about them. Even the most unimportant actions might be magnified into something significant where their married lives are concerned, and, before they know where they are, trouble ds caused at home and, subsequently, divorce. "It is so much easier to be divorced in America than in England. Reno, with its six-weeks' residence law, makes ,it even easier for those in a hurry. So easy in fa.ct that there is no time for the matter to be carefully considered and adjusted. "Hollywood really is just a place of people living in glass houses, where the stars have about as much privacy as goldfish in a glass bowl. "Some people high an the film world, such as Louis B. Meyer and Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer, are different. The parties at their houses are just such as one would find anyw/here in the suburbs of sap English town. They talk rarely of pictures but of literature, world topics domestic affairs, and, in between hands of bridge, it would be quite natural to hear a discussion of whether junior should have his tonsils out before or after Easter. "Some of the stars with all the things that should mal^e for happiness — money, lovely homes, and so on w!is.h they were typists and bank clerks, with their chances of joy. "Hollywood too, is not the paradise people believe. Neither is it the- den of vice of popular belief. I have been to parties there and I know. Hollywood iis a 10 o'clock town. Film stars know that their looks matter and take good care to get the sleep necessary to preserve them."