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FROM THE ARCHIVEApr 9, 1922·Albuquerque, New Mexico

DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE OF STARS

Scanned from Albuquerque Morning Journal, Apr 9, 1922
DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE OF STARS
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KM iF Divorce and Remarriage of Stars Held Largely Responsible for. Many Rumors of Laxity Among Moving Picture Folk. Although Better Class Is Almost as Straitlaced as the Ones. Who Criticize So Freely Continued from Latf tTecfc.

Before leaving tin subject of drugs it should be pointed out that no prominent motion picture actor or actress ever has been arrested as an addict so far as. I know This merely is worth passing men tion. The reader of course knows that addicts who are well up. In the social or professional scale are seldom arrested any where Does any one recall such an arrest in.

New York Of much greater signifi cance Is the fact that even in the Inside gossip of tho California movie zone the number of well known players suspected of addiction Is very small Wherever. I went I asked. Who are these dope fiends weve been reading about Of the names given me by more than two persona the public would recognize only five. One of these was that of the handsome matinee idol heretofore mentioned.

The others were women. There are in the Hollywood district when the studios are booming which is not the case.

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