Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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and try to draw them into something. But it didn't do any good. They Simply Won't Argue If they didn't agree, they would patch up their differences. "There's something, quite a little, in fact, in what you say, dear," Mr. McCormick would remark. "And I can see your side of the question, too, Johnny," rejoined Colleen. The way she says Johnny makes it a pet name. "Give him an argument, can't you?" I groaned. "You're Irish, aren't you?" "Oh, yes," she murmured. Then, sweetly, "But we never quarrel, do we, darling?" They refused flatly to be obliging. "We don't," went on Mrs. McCormick, "we don't always agree about things; it wouldn't be interesting if we did, would it?" "No," I replied. Xo Excuse for Quarrels, Says Colleen Out , on the other hand, there's no excuse for quarreling when you love each other." "Darling!" "My Johnny!" It is all the fault of the John Stahls. John and Irene, his wife, are numbered among the Model Hollywoodians, the ones to whom the industry points with pride when the horrid press has said something sensational about it. Other members are Lois Wilson, Harold Lloyd, Conrad Xagel, Colleen and John, and sometimes w and y. Well, when Colleen first began wearing the famous engagement ring with the emerald shamrocks surrounding the large diamond — the one she said for so long that her mother gave her — John and Irene took her and Johnny to see a play called The First Fifty Years. It was, as you may guess, a play about married life, with a message and a lesson and a tear or two. You know. Its message and lesson was evidently that there's no use letting married life get the best of you; that two can live as scrappily as one, but that it's better to go hand in band down life's pathway, and that it doesn't matter anyvvay — something like that. At any rate, it made a deep impression upcn the McCormicks-to-be; and they have never forgotten it. In fact, whenever they have a little spat, which apparently is what newly married persons fl Colleen Moore doesn't smoke. Not because she doesn't approve of it but because it makes her sick. Colleen may adore to flap before the camera, she may even kick up her French heels a bit at a director's prompting. But actually she is just a nice quiet little girl -who loves her husband and is thrilled at buying furniture 'or her new home. [Continued on page 861