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(Continued from page 29) affair.
"I don't like it," said one executive. "It comes too close after the Bergman scandal. It's no good for the industry. I wish that girl were back in the United States. It's easier to keep an eye on them here. This thing is no good for the industry."
The other executive shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think there's anything to do," he said. "Sinatra is no longer under contract to Metro. He's legally separated from his wife. Ava is legally divorced. Who wants to stand in the way of love? Love, you know, can be very big at the box office."
All of this is typical of the discussions going on in Hollywood about the famous romance. While it was reaching its height, Frank and Ava were in London, sitting together in a Bray-on-Thames restaurant, making small talk, trying to ignore the fact that they were the object of all . eyes, trying to answer the question of why the world would not let lovers alone.
There are many who say that Ava is making a fool of herself, that Frank is constitutionally incapable of sustained devotion, that this is merely an infatuation which will wear itself out and fade into memories
The people who think this way are doing Ava a great injustice. They make her out to be a silly, naive little girl. Ava is nothing of the sort. No one can be married to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw, and date dozens of other men, and still be considered naive. Nor does Ava suffer from an inferiority complex as is widely believed. The only thing inferior about Ava is her lack of formal education. And she learned years ago, that a beautiful body and a beautiful face more than compensate for these inadequacies where men are concerned.
This was brought home most sharply to ner when she was married to Artie Shaw. Artie was always begging her to improve her mind. He sent her to college to take courses in English literature. He insisted that she spend all her spare time reading worthwhile books.
Once when they were staying in New York, Ava went out and bought a copy of "Forever Amber," by Kathleen Winsor. Shaw, according to the tale, blew his top. "Cripes!" he exclaimed, "how can you read such unadulterated trash? This is pure rubbish."
HOW TIME FLIES!
■ What's next for Dorothy Lamour? Her romance with Greg Bautzer has been leaping and bounding along the paradise trail, with Dotty confessing that "I have never before known such joy." Now, it seems, her joy may be due for a jolt. Lana Turner, her deadliest opponent for Greg's affections, is on the loose again. The fur hasn't begun to fly yet, but Hollywood anticipates a beautiful scrap while Barrister Bautzer squirms. — October, 1940, Modern Screen.
A few months later, Artie divorced Ava and married Kathleen Winsor.
TVobody knows better than Ava what counts in this world. Anyone who has spent any time at all with her can testify to that. Ask Mickey or Shaw or Vic Damone or Howard Duff. They'll tell you.
Before she started going with Frank, Ava knew all about him, and knowing about him, she declined to accept his company. Having been married twice before, Ava has always made it a point to refuse dates with married men. Sinatra was no exception to this rule.
He became an exception, however, when he let Ava understand one evening that all was not honey between him and Nancy, and that to all intents and purposes, they had come to the parting of the ways.
No one can ever point the accusative finger at Ava and say, "That woman was responsible for destroying a marriage."
Sinatra's domestic discord can be attributed only to him and Nancy.
The public doesn't know this, however, and that's why they feel so strongly that Ava should not be permitted to love him.
The fact of the matter is that Frank's relationship with Nancy is merely a legal fiction. On September eighth, Frank is scheduled to appear in court and resolve once and for all the financial settlement due Nancy and the three children.
Frank's income for the past ten years has approximated some $10,000,000. He no longer has a motion picture contract (his old one paid him $5,000 a week), his records are no longer best-sellers, sheet music sales are away down, his future television show may or may not be any good. He's never going to be the popular bobby-sox idol he once was. In short, Frank has had it.
All this means that, in Frankie, Ava has a man who is past his professional prime. If Ava wants him under the present circumstances, surely she must be in love with him. "I can't go around screaming I'm in love with somebody who isn't even divorced," she says. "I think Frank is a wonderful person and if I were in love with anybody, it'd be him."
You can read between those lines quite easily. Ava's in love, all right. She has risked her career for him, and Frank has done the same for her.
When he bowled them over at the Palladium in London, Ava was in the third row center, applauding. When Frank was singing at The Shamrock in Houston, Texas, Ava was at a ringside table, applauding. When Frank was booked into the Copacabana in New York, Ava was on hand for the opening week.
These two have been following each other all over the world. Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Miami, Spain, Paris, London.
They're in love. They must be in love — and somehow the world frowns upon them. "Frank will never marry her," people say. "Surely, she must know it."
But Ava doesn't know it. She is certain that Frank will find some way to get a divorce. She is sure that somehow, sometime she will wind up being Mrs. Frank Sinatra.
She will confide her hopes to no one, not even to her sister Beatrice, who doubles as her chaperone, but her thinking is as visible as the top line of an optometrist's chart.
Just look: Frank has been incredibly resourceful, to date. He shortened his personal appearance engagement at the Copacabana because of a bad throat, and flew to Ava in Spain. He got out of his booking at the Chez Paris in Chicago. He
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