Like the cautious witness whom he must have encountered time and time again in the course of his career, Mr. John Cecil Lawrence, the Lon~ don lawyer, husband of Miss Elissa Landi, the Hollywood film star, has made no reply" to the charges of this wife, who has announced that she {s suing him for divorce. There is good basis for the action. Miss Landi is a successful cinema star who wants her husband to join her Hollywood. The husband, of whom little had "ever been heard prior to. this marital split, declines to go to, Hollywood and join the colony of unknown husbands of famous stars. In fact, he thinks he might become known'as "Mr. Elissa Landi and be-Ing a fairly substantial London lawyer he does not relish the prospect. As a result, according to the wife, she is compelled to live almost the fe of a hermit which has gained for her the name of the "coldest wor man in Hollywood." Here is a prob-Jem for Miss Dorothy Dix and the other specialists in settling other people's problems, but, on the whole, judging by the way Hollywood stars base a considerable portion of their Popularity and box office appeal on slogans, "the coldest woman Hollywood" is not a bad publicity effort to derive from an unsuecess~ ful marriage, Greta Garbo spent several years wearing freak masculine clothes and acting like a wraith to gain a reputation like this, while there are scores of other glamorous passionate creatures who would faerifce years to corn the appella~
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