Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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They had the wedding in the garden, which gave me a chance to rove around. I can't give you the usual details — music and flowers and how the bride looked. The things I recall are the things I shouldn't. Like Stan coming down with laryngitis the day before. He had to keep steaming his throat till the last minute, so he could say "I do." He was a jittery boy that day — more jittery than he'd ever been on the stage. It wasn't till half an hour before the ceremony that he suddenly remembered he'd left his white flannels in Milwaukee. A fellow announcer of his was driving in. We caught him on the phone in the nick of time, and got him to bring along another pair. (My wife's been looking over my shoulder. "Doesn't sound romantic, does it?" "I suppose not. Maybe you'd better add a few fancy touches — " "I don't know what went on. I was crying from start to finish — ") Well, they moved to Chicago, and for a while we didn't see much of them. But we'd hear Stan sing from the Empire Room at the Palmer House and we weren't the only ones. That's where Mary Garden heard him and that's when she introduced him to Irving Thalberg and that's an old story, so I won't go into it again. But there's one more thing I would like to say, and it's this. My wife and I know how lucky we are. Not because Stan's doing well in the movies. That's fine, but it's incidental. To older folk, nothing matters so much as their young people. We've got ours around us — all but our daughter's husband and. God willing, we'll have himtoo, before long. Week ends and holidays we get together at Stan's place. Christmas is just as it always was. We always trimmed the tree on the 20th, Stan's birthday, so he'd feel that Christmas wasn't crowding him out. Lillian keeps the custom up. We sing carols on Christmas Eve, and the only difference is that now there are more of us. He and Kris have a special number — "Oats, Peas. Beans and Barley — oh." He smiles at her for encouragement, and her eyes get big and sparkly, and they sing with a will. And Big Stan watches them with a certain look on his face, which must be the way I looked years ago when he got up to sing. Years ago, my foot! — it's the way I looked now! Then hell catch my eye and grin — Well, I've talked long enough and I guess it's clear between the lines what I think of my son. But if words are needed, let me put it this way. Little Stan came home from school one day when Walter Winchell's son was in the same school. "Junior says his father's the greatest man in the United States — " "And what did you say to that?"' I asked. "Well, I didn't hardly believe it. I said, 'What about the President and General Eisenhower? Anyway,' I said, 'I've got a dad myself that's quite a fella — ' " That goes double with his dad's dad.