January 15, 1932

ZASU PITTS ASKS DIVORCE
Los Angeles, Jan. 14
Suit for divorce, charging desertion, was filed today by ZaSu Pitts, screen comedienne, against Thomas S. Gallery, former manager of the Hollywood American Legion Boxing Stadium and associated with sports in New York.
Miss Pitts revealed they had lived apart since November 23, 1926. They were married in July 1920 when Mr. Gallery was a film player.
The actress asked custody of their child, 9, and an adopted child, Sonny Mike, also 9, son of the late Barbara La Marr. The children are with Miss Pitts.

SHARON LYNN TO WED FILM DIRECTOR TODAY
Rumors were current today that Sharon Lynn, film actress, and Benjamin Gazer, motion picture executive, were to be married today in Yuma, Ariz.
A large airplane was chartered to take a party of seven to the Arizona city, although airport officials refused to reveal who had made the arrangements.
Also, a wedding party was scheduled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Gibbons tomorrow night. Mrs. Gibbons is Dolores Del Rio of the screen.



CHESTER MORRIS GETS GARY COOPER ROLE IN NEW FILM
By Louella Parsons
One by one Gary Cooper’s pictures are being handed to someone else. In each letter Gary postpones his return to Hollywood.
He is enjoying his hunting expedition in the African jungles and he feels it is foolish for him to try to get back before he is entirely well. Chester Morris, who has an arrangement with Paramount whereby he make a certain number of pictures a year, will draw The Glass Key, an original by Dashiell Hammett.

There will be no sigh of regret on the part of Richard Barthelmess because he cannot go as far as the Orient this Spring. Dick is very happy to go only to Tahiti and to be back in Hollywood in the middle of March for the simple reason that he makes The Cabin in the Cotton his next picture.

Love Is a Racket, a novel by Rian James has been purchased by Warner Brothers as the next vehicle for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. who has just completed Union Depot.

Movie tag lines:

LEW AYRES
and a new wistful charmer spin a web of romance while a mighty Mississippi River overflows its banks in a spectacular climax that has no equal!
in
HEAVEN ON EARTH
with Anita Louise


Each Year Hollywood Produces One Comedy Masterpiece
1928 – Gold Diggers of Broadway!
1929 – Hold Everything!
1930 – Life of the Party!
And now 1931 –
Manhattan Parade
Hollywood’s Answer to ‘Once In A Lifetime’