WELL-KNOWN STARS IN DIVORCE SUITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

WELL-KNOWN STARS IN DIVORCE SUITS

CONSTANCE TALMADGE’S SECOND REMARKABLE LIST

TJEADING the greatest wave of divorce suits to sweep Hollywood since 1923, comes the announcement that Claire Windsor, Constance Talmadge and Anita Stewart are preparing to sue for freedom from their husbands.

According to a Hollywood correspondent: “Attorneys for Miss Windsor have filed her petition for liberty from Bert Lytell and the two, still friendly, are dining together occasionally. Both declare there is no bitterness between them, but that Lytell has spent so much time away in vaudeville that the home fires have smouldered and gradually become extinguished. Miss Windsor charges, also, that he has been unreasonably jealous of her friends. Constance Talmadge has retained an

I attorney to draft a divorce petition to free her from Captain Alastair MacKintosh, a former British Army officer to whom she was married in the home of Jean de St. Cyr in San Mateo, Febbruary 27, 1926.

INCOMPATIBLE TEMPERAMENT They separated last September, apparently incompatible in temperament. This will be the second divorce for Miss Talmadge. She married John Pialogle, a tobacco importer, in December, 19'•*, and sued for divorce in May, 1922, charging cruel and inhuman treatment. Pialogle would go for days without speaking to her, or without communicating with her in any way, she alleged. Anita Stewart is anxious for a divorce from Ruddy Cameron Brennen. whom she married eight years ago while he was an ensign in the navy and an aviator. The marriage was kept secret for six months. Incompatibility will be the ground for the suit. Miss Stewart and her husband lived together only about four years, and then separated. Numerous reports of a reconciliation have been heard in recent years, but whatever effort was made failed in consummation. With the filing of the Claire Windsor, Constance Talmadge and Anita Stewart suits, an even forty widelyknown screen players, writers and directors will have had th«»ir na.mes written into the divorce records since October of last year. Besides the three already mentioned there are Charlie Chaplin, Agnes Ayres, Evelyn Brent, Alice Calhoun, Ruth Corbin, Karl Dane, Louise Fazenda. Mildred Harris and William S. Hart, Harry Langdon, Adolphe Menjou, Jack Bickford and Marilyn Miller, Katherin MacDonald, Marian Nixon, Derelys Perdue, Vera Reynolds, Marie Mosquini, Kathleen Collins, Hedda Nova, Reed Howes, Richard Barthelrness, Virginia Valli, Priscilla. Bonner, Snub Pollard and Bess Meredith. DIRECTORS AS WELL Of the foregoing. Alice Calhoun. Louise Fazenda, Vera Reynolds and Virginia Valli are getting their final decrees. Ten directors are included in the list of matrimonial crashes. These are William C. De Mille, Clarence Brown, .Alan Crosland, Raoul Walsh, Emmett Flynn, Alfred Raboch, Dell Andrews, John G. Wray, John Ince and Lee Duncan, the last-named being owner and director of Rln Tin Tin. That the list of divorces is to be still further increased is indicated by a number of screen players living apart. Marie Prevost has left the home of Kenneth Harlan and is living at an hotel. Noah Beery and his wife now have separate homes, as have Viola Dana and “Lefty” Flynn. Desertion. failure to provide, too much mother-in-law, cruelty, incompatibility of temper, intoxication, association with other women, flirtation and disinterest are included in the charges contained in the complaints. Desertion heads the list.