MERRY WIDOWS’ CLUB IS PROVING POPULAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 182, 22 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

MERRY WIDOWS’ CLUB IS PROVING POPULAR

HOLLYWOOD GATHERING “BROKEN-HEARTED - ' STARS THE club of Merry Widows is meeting twice a week at the Montmartre Cafe on Hollywood boulevard. There is no official organisation, but actresses garbed in the height of fashion meet and greet and smile happily over the termination of their “recent unpleasantness/*

Claire Windsor, attired in a flowered chiffon, writes a correspondent, arrived at the Montmartre for luncheon the other day

omcf uav with Betty Morrisey. Clairftls interlocutory decree from Bert By tell had just b.e e n granted. With much effusion she greeted Bess Meredith, scenarist, whose divorce is under way. At another table sat Marie Prei- _i_ «ii, 11-i tli q Via t

7ost in a suit of black silk with a hat pulled rakishly down over one eye. She and Kenneth Harlan are not divorced, but they are separated, and Kenneth has gone to Honolulu. Marie was one of the most beautiful young women in the place and was sparkling with life. At a nearby table sat Evelyn Brent, clad in apple green, one of fashion a latest decrees, lunching with Priscilla Dean. Pauline Garon arrived, also in apple green, and later came Virginia Valli and likewise Vera Reynolds. Katherine MacDonald, who retired from pictures not long ago to promote a line of cosmetics, came in and was profusely greeted. Katherine described herself to the divorce judge last year as a “golf widow.” Mrs. Ona Brown, late wife of director Clarence Brown, drifted in, following a trip to Paris, her face half concealed by a floppy hat. Anita Stewart hobnobbed with the “gang,” happy in her agreement with “Rudy” Cameron that either may get a divorce any time without opposition. Viola Dana, separated from “Lefty” Flvnn, paraded in with her sister. Shirley Mason, and Agnes Ayres stopped for a club sandwich and a cup of tea. , Noah Beery, who is separated from his wife, but not divorced, was present at the bachelor’s table and presently Adolphe Menjou arrived. Leo Duncan, owner of “Rin Tin Tin.” whose wife told the court he loved the dog more than her breezed in. Everybody seemed happy.