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tennis courts and in the gymnasium of the Hollywood Athletic club, gave up these sports which meant so much in his earlier life.
Joan, the girl who couldn't be happy unless she was basking in the glare of the bright lights of the Montmartre or Cocoanut Grove or the Blossom Room, the girl who won all of the cups awarded in Hollywood dancing contests, settled down to a life that stood out in contrast. She had built for herself a home and it was there that she and Doug spent their evenings of courtship, Joan sewing or listening to Doug as he played the piano or read to her.
HOLLYWOOD wondered what had become of them. Then came the announcement of their engagement. And neither hesitated to tell the world that they were in love.
Instead of the conventional solitaire, Joan appeared at the studio wearing a wedding ring. Questioned, she replied:
"Oh, that's just being different. Doug is going to give me the engagement ring when we are married.". Newspaper reporters swooped down on the be
Here is Mrs. Doug, Jr., in a corner of her charming home. She and Doug are living here until they have saved enough money to build their dream house.
trothed couple. The whole film colony began to suspect that they already were married — probably in Mexico.
I knew at the time the reason why Joan and Doug wanted "to be different," but I kept their secret. In telling it now, since they have accomplished their purpose, I am betraying no confidence.
Doug couldn't afford the solitaire!
Doug's salary wasn't as large as some might have suspeaed. He had to support himself. He was aiding his mother financially. And here in Hollywood he maintains another home for his grandparents, Daniel J. Sully, the one-time cotton king of America, and Mrs. Sully.
|OUG had never attended college, so he had no fraternity insignia th^t he might pin on Joan's dress. He couldn't very well drop into one of Mr. Kresge's wellknown emporiums and purchase one of those huge glass rocks that retail at a dime each, for gem values are too well known among Joan's screen acquaintances. Many of them have been famous collectors of such baubles.
So Doug simply did the thing that best suited the condition of his purse at the moment. He purchased for $100 a narrow platinum band. Then he set out to save the $2,000 necessary to buy the square-cut diamond that was to grace the third finger of Joan's left hand after their marriage.
Throughout their courtship and since their marriage, both Joan and Doug have shown the utmost common sense in their expenditures.
HORTLY before Joan met Doug, Jr., she commenced O the construction of a new house of the Spanish type in
the Brentwood Hills. From its balconies one gazes across vales to the mansions of Harold Lloyd, Carl Laemmle, Sr., Milton Sills — ^yes, even upon Pickfair.
But the house is small, having been designed for the \_Contwued on page 80']
If you look carefully under that head piece you'll find Doug himself. That's the largest genuine Panama in existence and there'll be a hat time in the old town for anybody who dares to wear it.
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