Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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It was true that Wanda wasn't a very j|l;ood cook, but that's nothing against a 1 oung wife. She would learn. But gradual ! w, as the months unfolded, more than l umorous cooking stories started to be ! ushed about. Wanda and Audie were Tiffing. T Wanda, under contract to Paramount, T /anted desperately to achieve a fulledged stardom. She, too, had known povJirty as a youngster in Florida. She wanted ne better things of life, and here they /ere, at last, within her grasp. She wanted o get into the social swim of things; she /anted to get known, to pose for pictures, .3 receive her share of adoration and pub.city; she wanted to be seen in all the fl ight spots with all the right people. To Audie, this was so much bunk. If J Vanda was a good actress, she would J chieve fame on the basis of her ability. 1 'ame on the basis of sociability or publicity, he felt, was a false foundation. 3 There were often arguments about this. "Now, look," Audie said one evening. "If j]; ou want to go to these parties, please go. 'here are dozens of guys to take you. I ust don't like them." You see, Audie doesn't believe in glamor. Te doesn't believe in not talking to the I'ateman at Universal, merely because the .. ateman makes only $85 a week. Nor does j ie believe in treating prop men and electricians with kindly, superior benevolence. [Tou know, talking down to them with a I ticky kind of sweetness that makes them ^eel like peasants before the feudal lord. • Nor is Audie, the orphan from FarmersUille, Texas, ambitious. To date, he has [tarred in two pictures, Bad Boy and The Jr^id from Texas. At this moment, he is i tarring with Wanda in Sierra. His income 4s approximately $25,000 a year. He thinks ghat's wonderful enough. He pays all the ■siousehold bills. I'll repeat that: He pays •jil the household bills. He also supports ;tjjour members of his immediate family. Audie respects Wanda very much. Wanda {jjh return loves him intensely. My personal pinion is that Audie, once he achieved the ort of financial security he felt necessary So support a wife and family, expected Vanda to give up her career. || I'm sure that he himself has never sug■ Rested that move, but I'm equally sure that i\\ie expected it to be volunteered in the latural course of events. When he fell in ove with Wanda's picture on that Coronet :over, he felt that he was falling in love ivith a typical American girl, a girl who 3vould be satisfied with wifehood and cnotnerhood. He wanted simplicity; he wanted sweetness; he wanted a plain, natural girl; and in Wanda, he thought he had found all that. He did; but he also found an actress. Better men than Audie Murphy have tried marrying and staying married to rising young actresses, and better men than Audie Murphy have failed. Because to be married to an actress, particularly a successful actress — and Wanda Hendrix is certainly that — a man needs large amounts of worldiness, sophistication, and nonchalance, and a not-too-sensitive heart. Audie Murphy has none of these. Well, just what does Audie think of the domestic chances of him and Wanda? "The other day," he told me, "some writer interviewed me. She asked about me and Wanda. I told her that if Wanda and I had any basic disagreements — and I'm afraid we have — we would have had them any place — New York, Texas, or Hollywood. Well, the next day, she wrote a story and said that I had blamed everything on Hollywood. I never said any such thing. "No, Hollywood's been good to me and it's been good to Wanda. There've been a lot of stories out to the effect that I'm a psycho, that I'm a bit off my nut, that I'm hard to get on with, that I'm still readjusting myself to civilian life. That's bunk. "Wanda and I have differences. I guess all married couples do. If the love that first brought you together lasts, I guess you can work those differences out. If the love doesn't last, if it fades too quickly, if it turns out that you weren't in love, that you were only infatuated, then maybe you shouldn't stay married. "I mean, if a marriage doesn't work in the first few years when it's supposed to work, when you're both supposed to be so much in love, what is there to make anyone believe that it will work in six or eight years? If people aren't happy together before children start arriving, will they be happier afterwards? These are questions that Wanda and I will have to work out." The End You won't want to miss reading the screen story of Prince of Foxes, in which Wanda Hendrix co-stars with Tyrone Power, in the December issue of Screen Stories — another entertainment-packed Dell magazine. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933. AND JULY 2, 1946 Of MODERN SCREEN, published monthly at Dunellen, N. J., for October 1. 1949 State of New York I County of New York I ss . _ , Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Helen Meyer, who, having been duly sworn according to law. deposes and says that she is the Business Manager oi tne MODERN SCREEN and that the following is to the best o£ her knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily, weekly, semiweekly or triweekly newspaper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by ihe act oi August Zi. 1912, as amended by the acts of March 3, 1933. and July 2, 1946 (section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations), printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: ... „0„0 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are Publisher, George T. Delacorte. Jr., 261 Fifth Ave., New York 16, N. Y.; Editor William B. Hartley. 261 Fifth Ave., New York 16, N. Y.; Managing editor, Durbin L. Horner, 261 Fifth Ave.. New York lb, N. Y.. Business manager, Helen Meyer, 261 Fifth Ave., New York 16, N. Y. „n.i._i_ 2. That the owner is: (If owned bv a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one percent or more oi total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated concern, its name and address, as well as those of each individual member, must be given.) Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 261 Fifth Ave., New York 16, N Y. George T. Delacorte, Jr., 261 Fifth Ave., New York 16, N. Y.; Margarita Delacorte, 261 Fifth Ave., New York 16 N Y 3. 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