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HOLLYWOOD'S most exciting romance is Betty Grable and Harry James. Also Hollywood's most msn-hush love affair. A few items have ppeared about Betty and Harry but ince both have consistently refused to ee any reporter or make any statement iuch of the information has been eroneous. Here, at last, is the true story f Betty and Harry's romance, gathered rom many people, chiefly from no less n authority than Harry himself. We saw the man whose band and rumpet-playing are tops these days v'hile he waited for Betty to join him n New York. Ostensibly she crossed he continent for the opening of Coney Island." Really she came to see lim and settle some of those all-imporant questions between them.
"I appreciate your asking me to ;heck on the facts and anecdotes Hollyvood reporters have supplied you about 3etty and me," Harry said. "A story n which the facts were not entirely :orrect could do harm. What has happened to us might happen to any two )eople. Let me tell you our story. . . ." Thus it becomes our privilege to oublish this romantic scoop, to satisfy :he interest that has been excited by the secrecy which heretofore has surrounded this love affair.
"Contrary to general belief there was no romance between Betty and me last summer when we were working on Springtime In The Rockies'," Harry said. "At that time I was rushed with my screen work, my engagement at the Palladium and my broadcasts. When Betty visited the Palladium with Seaman Bill Stark she did not come to see me, as it has been rumored she did. Only once or twice, in fact, did I know that she was there."
Last summer, bearing out what Harry says, Betty was still all-absorbed in George Raft. Their quarrels had begun— quarrels caused by their differences in tastes and age and the vital problem of his divorce. But she was
They deserve the truth they get here, disproof of these dangerous rumors — Harry, No. I trumpet player of today, Betty, the tiuncing star
still hoping he would get his freedom and they would marry. It was while George was away, and with his knowledge, that she went dancing with Seaman Bill Stark. Not until the following November, about the time "Springtime In The Rockies" was released, did Lillian Grable, beginning to doubt a divorce would materialize, say: "I like George. But naturally I can't be too happy about Betty's having a continued romance with a man who cannot marry her. No matter how much they love each other in the end it will bring unhappiness to them both."
Betty listens to her mother and from
this time on her unhappiness undoubtedly increased. Last January, George went to New York to make a last try for his freedom. It was when he came back, unsuccessful, that she called him on the phone to call quits. She's strong enough to resent any force in her life that is destructive, to pull up any such force as she would weeds that choked the good growth in a garden. And she's brave enough, to come up from heartbreak to hope and believe and love again.
"It began for Betty and me last February," Harry said, "when we met several Monday (Continued on page 86)