Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

It was just about a year ago that Janet and Adrian started "going together" and had the Hollywood gossips buzzing away over an exciting new romance. decorated by Adrian in blue and white — blue being Janet's favorite color, as you've probably guessed by now. Janet was packing like mad. All kinds of luggage was strewn around the room, and I haven't seen her so fluttery since the night of the preview of "A Star Is Born," when a gang of enthusiastic fans decided that bits of her dress and her hair were just what they needed for their memory books. "Don't tell me," I said, flopping on a cushion, "Let me guess. You're getting married. You're eloping." "Yes," Janet fairly gurgled. (Oh, these in-love people!) "Isn't it wonderful! A and I hadn't intended getting married until Thanksgiving. We were planning a quiet home wedding. But yesterday A discovered that he could get away for a month if he could finish up at the studio. So we've decided to drive to Yuma on Monday, take the train there for El Paso, Texas, and then on to Mexico City. Honeymoon in Mexico. Isn't it thrilling! A tells me that Mexico City is the most fascinating city in the world." {"A" stands for Adrian. Janet has a habit of calling her close friends by their initials. When she and Tyrone Power were going together she called him T.P.) "This is the dress I'm going to wear," Janet said, holding up a polka-dotted blue of thin silk crepe. "A had planned to design my wedding dress for me. But now he hasn't time. I'm wearing this because it's the coolest dress I have in my wardrobe, and it's going to be awfully hot driving to Yuma. I ought to know — I've been on enough locations there. But never to the Justice of the Peace before. I probably won't wear a hat. Unless A insists. I never do." While she dropped handkerchiefs, eau de cologne, tooth brushes, stockings, perfume, handsomely tailored {Janet isn't the frilly type, thank goodness) robes and underwear around in the different bags, she prattled on about happiness, love and marriage. And I think she's got something there. "For my part," she said, "I feel that what happiness any person may experience must have its origin in one's own capacity for happiness. Wasn't it Lin Yutang who told us about the Chinese big-wig of the seventeenth century who found the height of happiness on a summer's day in cutting open a big green watermelon as it rested on a scarlet plate?" {Me — I woiddn't be knowing about Lin Yutang, but Janet is a very erudite young lady.) "So you see, Elizabeth, happiness is really a personal thing. "Marriage is a matter of free and deliberate choosing in this modern day. To most people it is a gamble for happiness. I have a feeling that, in marriage, no matter how unevenly the days move along, and they are bound to be uneven in this complex scheme of today's li\'ing, it is in the regular give-and-take of activities that the real worth while pattern is woven. "With A and me — now here you have two distinct individualities with separate and mutual interests — but we share them, and both enjoy what we feel is a rare companionship. We feel, too, that we are making an investment in faith, rather than the customary gamble for happiness. I sound awfully serious, don't I?" She giggled, and she has a most infectious giggle. "Well, I am serious." And happy too, I thought. I haven't seen anyone radiate such happiness in years. "A and I both love to travel and both of us have done a lot of it," she continued. "We expect to do a lot more. Travel does something to a person. At least it is a liberal education. Surely, anyone who can possibly afford it travels these days. I always feel as if I'd had the inside of my head re-decorated when I return from a trip, even if it's only up to Yosemite or over to Boulder Dam. You give your mental house an airing and you feel so refreshed. And how would you like to travel from that cushion over to this chair — you're sitting on my favorite scarf." I moved off of a very gay red scarf and handed it to Janet, thinking of the old days when Janet, with her burnishedcopper hair, wouldn't come within a mile of anything red. But Adrian told her to wear red — and she wears it. "When you go to another country, as we are doing — going down to Mexico City — you learn about other people, their aims, their principles, their folklore and their art treasures. A iinds inspiration for his work in visiting other countries and has always been an enthusiastic traveler and sightseer. And you know me. All you have to do is barely suggest a trip and I'm practically on the train. Just imagine! 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