Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

L)Cb and uluc skin V, afUi blooded and cinouoaui ihc is cht cypc of Woman w ho has caused men of all ages to build empires -and destroy them. Passionate! She will love madly and wildly if she is not terribly careful. That passion plays a huge part in almost every Hollywood marriage is known to her, but she doesn't want it to be of too much importance in her own marriage. She realizes that because of her temperament she can very easily be swept off her feet; that she can be made, in a romantic moment, to forget all her resolutions to seek that other and greater love For that reason she is careful. "When I do fall in love I know that I will be devoted to the man I marry. I won't just be 'in love' with him, I'll adore him — idolize "Where, in Hollywood," says Olive, "will I find a man who will be content to settle down to a real married life?" l*hoTi)s hy J'rtbton Ijuncan 1 llcbc tlilUgs alcli wood romance jIlclJ dl5i.OScrcd 111 u wild. liCLlli.. tivjil', him. That is why I say that when the time comes I will be happy and willing to give up everything . . . Hollywood, career, money and fame, for love. I want the name Olive Borden to become a memory . . a fine one, 1 hope. "But to be afraid of love, one must have given It a great deal of thought and consideration. I have. Ever since I was a small girl in grammar school, I have had wonderful ideas on love and marriage. Then, when 1 was sixteen I came to Hollywood. Hollywood — where marriage and divorce are spoken of in the same breath, just as one would mention coffee and cream. Hollywood doesn't expect a marriage to last any length of time. A divorce is the natural sequence. I have been a long time trying to understand why the people in my new home thought of love in such a different way from the love I had always dreamed of having. I doubt if I'll ever find out the real reason. But they do! Out here everything is done with speed and commotion. No time is given for thought and decision. And, as a consequence, love is taken at a dazzling pace — and dropped in just the same manner. HOLLY'WOOD'S speed and glittering effusion, then, will never produce the sort of love and marriage I am dreaming of. My ideas call for gradual development from deep friendship into that greatest of all happiness — love. Slowly, and with a clear mind — that is the way in which I want to approach marriage. For that reason I have always wanted to fall ultimately in love with someone whom I had known over a long period of years. A man who had earned my sincere respect and admiration. A man with a deep, honest character. There isn t time for any such eoncrcce cx aminauons. Tlic couple are in the sky. When they finally wake upmarried — they are faced with the task of learn ing whether thev have married someone with honesty, toler ancc and character, or not. Some unfor tunate girls have found these essential at tributes wanting, upon a close inspection And without them no marriage can be sue cessful. "For that reason, my ideas of marriage have always been old-fashioned. It must be forever' or not at all for Olive Borden I want to be married but once. That is why I must never marry in Hollywood^ where love is always associated with passion, and marriage with divorce. I must marry a man far away from this town — one who has learned to combine love with respect; frankness with honesty and force of character with gentleness. Nothing else \Continiitd on page 92^ •20