Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-09 | Page 23 | Barrymore Has Colorful Career

Ii I i BARRYMORE HAS COLO COLORFUL UL CARE CAREER Americas America's w erica's Great Vit r Lover Q ver Again Marries ries an Actress Acts I t I 1 i j II 4 a F Ms 2 2 A g ii All celebrated ties beat and anti all al actresses these three women whom John Barrymore Barr upper per l left ft chose to wed Katharine Harris his his first first wife is shown upper right light below erow eow are Michael Strange left and Dolores Costello Castel v Second Wife Known as Poet and Playwright Playwright Playwright Play- Play wright New York Society Girl His First Choice By HORTENSE SAUNDERS N NEA EA Service Writer NEW YORK Dec Dee The 8 S T S-T The e romance romance ro ro- ro mance manes of ot Americas America's great lover ot of ol the screen John Barrymore an and Dolores Costello brings him for th the tho third time before belore tho the public In therole the therole role 1010 of bridegroom and recalls certain certain car car- tam tain points of similarity to his other other oth oth- er cr adventures in matrimony Dolores Costello is one of the most beautiful daughters of ot Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood today But the second Mrs 1 I Barrymore a poet actress and playwright play play- I wright as well as a society queen IlIad had an international reputation asa as asa asa a beauty when ho ha married her al almost almost almost al- al most ten years ago Paul French artist described her lien as as' as the most beautiful woman in the tho United United United Unit Unit- ed States And his first wife Katherine Harris whom when he married in iii 1910 was one ono of the most lovely debutantes debutantes debutantes debu debu- of tho the season season related on her mothers mother's side to the BOTH WERE ACTRESSES Each romance has had a background back bael- background ground of th the stage The Tho first Mrs na Barrymore Bari though a society girl had theatrical ambitions and she played with Barrymore in Believe Me Xantippe and with Ethel Barrymore Bar Bar- in Declasse She played with John when he made his first motion picture The second Mrs 1 Barrymore known as a writer under the name of Michael Strange has had bad amany a amany many sI sided ed artistic career caLeer As beau beau- Blanche Oelrichs the she was a abelle abelle belle of Newport and New York She divided her time her time so society society so- so and the arts as the tho wife of ot Leonard Thomas her liei first husband rich New York society nan man After Arter Af Ar- Aten A- A ter ten her marriage to Barrymore she became more interested in the stage and in writing and less in iii society She he published a a. book of poems for fOL which John himself made the Illustrations for Barrymore is an artist as wall well as an actor liar Her first play Clair de Lune was extravagantly extravagantly ex ex- produced in New York with both Jack and his famous sister sister sis sis- ter ten Ethel EUIel in the caste But even the could not make malte tho the play playa a popular one TROUBLES IN HIS ROMANCES In III spite of his reputation Uon a as a great gleat lover his secure position as the most popular leading man on the stage and screen his extraordinary voice and his profile second to none Barr Barrymore more never l has a found his matrimonial conquests unattended unattended tended by difficulties Ho He married the first Mrs 1 more over the strenuous objections of her father who considered her too young to marry His second wife is said to have haye divorced her husband that she might marry Bar Bar- And the romance between him and the lovely Dolores Is rumored rumored rumored ru ru- ru- ru mored to have caused so to much friction friction fric fric- tion between her parents that they were ere divorced Though his first two wives have been society women descended from old New York families famille Dolores Dolores Dolores Do Do- lores Costello is a daughter of one Ole of oJ the first families of the films Two decades ago Maurice Costello her father probably was the most I adored man on the screen SECURED DIVORCE IN PARIS Ban Barrymore's mores devotion to the blond Dolores has been known since they appeared in their first picture The Sea Beast But also ever everyone one knew that he be was married to Michael Strange The divorce was secured in Paris by Mrs Barrymore without without with with- out publicity and came as a great surprise There is one daughter Diana by this second marriage Barrymore has directed and furthered furthered fur fur- the stage aspirations of ot each of his wives It Is common taUt talk talk talk-In in Hollywood that the marvelous progress progress ress ness Dolores has made as a screen luminary has been due to John Barrymore Some three years ago at 19 she went west nest est looking for fora a job She was vas an unknown chorus girl then Barrymore saw her and was enchanted by her looks though he tore his hair hall at her acting Under Under Under Un Un- der his instruction she rapidly rose in the film world until she sho became what she is today today today-a a star