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AN AMAZING NEW ANGLE ON
JANET
AND
CHARLIE
THE average person, no matter how much he or she wisecracks about matrimony, nevertheless fosters, heart-deep, certain ideals of marriage and could tell you, if persuaded, the exact characteristics of the ideal married couple — of in short, the perfect Mr. and Mrs.
For a characterization of Mr., we can go to the average girl, or even married woman, in an average motion picture audience, j She will tell you that the ideal husband is handsome, but not "pretty," intelligent but not brilliant to the extent of self-absorption, romantic, considerate, able to earn a good living, athletic, capable of defending his wife and his household, a good comrade, a glamorous lover, and an idealist.
To reach the sum total of the traits which would make the ideal wife, we must go to the average young man, or married man, in the audience. And he would tell you that the average wife should be very pretty, with charm and personality, but with no veneer of hard, flashing sophistication. She should be thrifty and interested in her house. She should care a great deal for beauty and make the most of her own. She should wear the sort of frocks which call your attention to the girl inside them and not just to the frocks themselves. She should be sweet but spirited, capable of a little mischief, attractive to all men but true to one, interested in her own man's business and affairs, ambitious for him, helpful, but leaning on his strength.
Therefore, bring these two ideals together in a marriage-merger and you would certainly have the ideal married couple, the perfect Mr. and Mrs.
THEY probably do not exist, this couple, either singly or together, but upon the screen today we have a couple who typify these traits and who make them live to an audience.
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell — the perfect Mr. and Mrs.
But whereas we have, for instance, two pairs of stage and screen stars who are greatly beloved and whose team work is unequalled — I mean Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Edna Best and Herbert Marshall — they do not quite fulfill the average ideal. The one pair is too polished and sophisticated and they portray too worldly roles for the ideal couple and the other pair is, after all, English and likewise veneered with the lacquer of worldliness.
Fontanne and Lunt, Best and Marshall, are married;