Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

Silver Screen for October 1939 77 Romance in Reverse [Continued from page 73] These jolly arm-in-armers are John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds and Milburn Stone on their way to work on another "Tailspin Tommy" film. No wonder they're so happy, because the series has been tremendously successful. in the world except each other. When we decided to adopt a baby we gave a lot of thought to the type we wanted. Just when we thought we wanted a girl we'd think a boy would be nice and when we decided on brown eyes we thought of blue ones in the next breath. Of course we were sure we were going to select a pretty baby. Wouldn't it be just too ridiculous to have the advantage of our own selection and not pick the prettiest one we could find. But we didn't. Our little Joan was only three months old when we found her and she wasn't a pretty baby at all. But it didn't make any difference. We felt something, as soon as we looked at her, that we hadn't felt for any of the other babies. Maybe it's true, as scientists think, that attraction is a matter of chemicals and that you can't help being drawn to some people more than to others. Maybe it's just that it was destined little Joan was coming to us. At any rate there was a bond between that baby and us and we felt it the first moment we saw her. No mother and father looking at their baby for the first time could have felt more in awe of the thing that was happening to them than Jack and I felt looking at this, our first child. Today that baby is the loveliest child you've ever seen. And that's not just a fond mother talking either. She has the bluest eyes in the world and the yellowest hair and her face is as lovely as a Botticelli cherub. But that isn't important. That little girl, she's five now, is as spiritually and mentally and physically kin to us as if she had become ours by birth as she now is through love. Nothing in the world makes me as furious as to have people say, "Isn't she lucky that you adopted her." Why, we're the lucky ones getting a child like that. And we're not such egotistical fools either that we don't realize our own baby, had we had one, might not have been as perfect. We didn't know then how she would develop, any more than other mothers and fathers know how their children are going to develop. That she has become the individual she is, is only another one of the blessings that have come to us. For we're been awfully lucky, Jack and I. We've laughed together and sometimes we've cried together — as what two people who love each other and have been together for a long time haven't? And we've seen some of our friends part and we've been unhappy about it. But we've never been afraid for ourselves. Because the thing we have isn't a thing that was conjured up some spring evening out of a handful of stars and a mist of moonlight. It's a thing we've built together, slowly and securely out of the days and the years of being together. And you don't lose a thing like that! f OUCH1 VE POPPED IaRUN-ANDIT'S v7 EDNA'S FAULT \ I'LL BE NEXT 1 WHY DOESN'T SHE USE iUX ? Luxing saves E-L-A-S-T-l-C-l-T-Y and cuts down RUNS I Wash stockings after each wearine in lukewarm Lux suds. This 2 Don't rub with cake soap or use soaps containing harmful alkali. These weaken elasticity. saves elasticity, cuts down runs. After Luxing, rinse well. Shape and dry away from heat. Keep the thrifty BIG box of Lux handy always. o far-Lux is thrifty