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Dale and Roy Rogers are both involved in a secret romance — with each other.
■ Roy Rogers and I both lead "double lives." We both have another love outside our home.
We get up in the morning, kiss each other goodbye (we leave at different times because it takes a woman hours to get ready for the camera, and a man— -or Roy, anyway — only minutes) and then, at the studio, we meet other loves.
His other love is Dale Evans — not his wife. My other love is Roy Rogers — not my husband.
Of course, this romance at the studio can't be carried on openly. In the best tradition of such affairs it is clandestine. It lives, only in the "little things" that go on, and no one without an eye for these would ever suspect there was anything between us.
The little things ...
When it is still quite early in the moming and I am under the hairdresser's hands on the' set, Roy may drop by and — what do you know! — he'll just happen to be carrying two
nice, steaming cups of coffee. Would I like to have one?
Or if he is getting nowhere studying a lyric in Spanish (he manages to sing at least one Spanish chorus in each picture) I can "feel" his puzzlement no matter where I am and I'll chance along to help him in his problem of pronouncing the words so they'll have a reasonably accurate Latin ring to them. Not that I'm a language scholar or anything — but I was brought up near many Spanish people in Texas and grew familiar long ago with their accents.
If I am making some scenes in which he does not appear, I may not see him for hours, perhaps — unless the scenes require that I do anything that might be even remotely hazardous. Then, without fail, Roy will show up, talk to the director, study the planned action and, I know, estimate whether there might be any overlooked element of danger involved for me.
At times like that he gets a wary (Continued on page 87)
At home, they're Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, a very domestic couple who enjoy roughhousing with Roy's children — Cheryl, Linda Lou and Dusty.