Show DIVORCE ERA HAS ARRIVED IN MOll HOLLYWOOD IN FULL FORGE FORCE Screen Aristocrats Nurn- Nurn Among Seekers of Decrees TO TEST CONTRACT One PI Plaintiff ai n t iff U Under n cr Agreement Not to Seek Seck Separation Imy BY Ji IC Copyright 1127 1027 By The Consoli- Consoli Consolidated dated Press Association HOLLYWOOD Calif June 18 The epidemic of marital which began with the tho Chaplin di- di divorce divorce vorce on has grown to startling proportions In Hollywood film circles Aristocrats ot of the screen are numbered among the victims ot of the domestic infelicity germ and every day sees new names added to the list of oC movie folk olle whose romances have faded out to nn an unhappy end Noah per Agnes Ayres Aynes Kathleen Collins Frank Franl Campeau iola Dana Kenneth Harlan Marie Pro ost Dorothy Cum Cum- Cummings Walsh nuth fluth Corbin NatalIe and Hedda No- No Novale yak vale arc among the best known screen favorites o. who have ban ban- Ishell cupid to the hills It was perhaps a scrutiny o of these mishaps that cau caused ed TIebe Daniels to break breal of her engagement to Charley Chancy Pad Pad- Paddock dock champion champlon sprinter We are the best of oC friends and antl want to remain so was a apart apart part ot of the statement Issued b by bythe the pair announcing the lie broken troth CT rOn IDS OnCE IH Unique among the divorce suits Is that o of Dorothy Cummings who portrayed the madonna role In Inthe Inthe the King ot of lings KIngs lIen lIer suIt against her hr husband Frank Elliot I DakIn English actor revealed d I that her contract wIth Cecil De Dc I 1 Mule Ie producer ot of the biblical film pledged her to keep out ot of the divorce counts for seven years Under the con con- contract contract tract De lIlIo has the legal rl right ht to ask for Cor an Injunction restrain restrain- restrainIng Ing her from rom proceeding with the suit sult SuCh a suit stilt will be a test ot of the validIty of recent con con- contracts tracts In good behavior Is s re- re requIred required of actors Agnes Agnes ers A-ers ers allowEd herself to exceed the weIght called for or In her motion moLion picture contract and when she lost her job she also lost her husbands husband's affections In her divorce suIt she charges her husband Manuel an ot- ot o of the Mexican republic wIth willful neglect failure allure to provide and cruelty They have one daughter ged 14 months Kenneth Harlan and Pre Pre- Prevest vest ost heretofore as the best mated Couple In Hollywood arE for some unexplained reason living apart Miss Prevost sud- sud suddenly denly depart departed d from her hus- hus husbands husband's husbands husband's bands band's home honto and took I. a suite In Ina ina a hotel She confirmed the th sep sep- sepa a ration oration but declined to give the reason Harlan refused to talk Noah Decry veteran ot of screen vitia villainy In and his wife have broken off oct marital relations their at- at attorneys Lornes Lorne's have revealed The actor actoris is occupyIng a a. ranch near Lan Lan- while Mrs Decry Deery and antl their son retain the Hollywood Continued on Ia c Five DIVORCE ERA ERAIN IN HOLLYWOOD Continued fron fro Page One homer home Divorce proceedings have not lot yet jet et been entered Kathleen athleen I Collins and nd her fa famous fa- fa famous mou's husband Big Boy quinn Guinn Williams Wililam have lave filed cross cross suits suits Kathleen Katheen alleges that Big Boy was vas too attentive to other women omen Including Including- her sister while Wil- Wil Willams Williams lams liams names three men with wish wl whom he alleges his wife was too friendly Viola Dana has separated from her husband Maurice Ia rl e B B. Lefty Flynn Mynn actor and former All All- American merican tackle on the Yale foot foot- football football football ball team tean She Sh says sas her divorce dIvore plans are Indefinite Frank Trank Campeau Campe u. u one of the tho three three bad bad men in In the motion picture of that that- title tille carried his badness s Into his home his wife alleges She not only seeks leeks di divorce di- di vorce but also asks for fo damages for personal Injuries she says she suffered suffer when hen h her h r husband beat and kicked her Mrs irs J J. J J 1 J. J known on the he screen as is Ruth Corbin bases her divorce plea on the claim that her ier husband took her to live with his mother In a tiny apartment where the mother occupied the only bedroom and the bride had to lo sleep in the kitchen She left him BREAKS ItS UP Ui PARTY Rpaul Walsh flint film director was an imitator of Charlie Chaplin according according- to his wife i e who charges charge that he broke up ip a party of girl friends in her home by raising such such- sucha a rumpus In the room above that they could not hear themselves es talk Natalie actress ran away aay from her husband Alfred director with another man according to a farewell let let- letter letter letter ter which the deserted d husband offered In evidence when he tiled filed his divorce suit Hedda Novak a a. portrayer of vamp amp roles and sister of Eva Novak No charges her husband Paul Hurst a well known heavy In westerns with cruelty and too great a fondness for synthetic gin There are many other recent divorce suits sull In which the smaller fry of are Involved and If Lito Lita Grey Chaplin ever gets around to naming n the seven women omen she Intimates accepted Charlies Charlie's attentions this month of June will set a divorce record for Hollywood that will become historic in film annals |