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“ MOVIES ”
Is There a T (~W 7T7 D “New Deal” in 1 vV/ V ill/.
By Phyllis Barry
VER since Adam looked down and discovered he’d misplaced a rib the question has come up time and again — “to marry or not to marry!” It’s been a question
of are you for marriage
Phyllis Barry, Monarch Star.
—or agin it? Monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, right down the line to the “good old halter at the altar” have been discussed back and forth, and now% w i t h modern Russia doing a right-about-face at the sign of a minister, a bible and a sprig of orange blossoms, it
When 1 was engaged to play the role of Dotty Tait in the Monarch production “Marriage on Approval,” and studied the script of the story which deals w ith this modern question in a new wav, I wondered seriously, for the first time perhaps, whether marriage, as wre have come to know it, will survive the changes in this rapidly altering world.
With more leisure growing out of our present economic set up, women and men are going to have more time — and more time means more mischief, if I know my sexology lesIt isn’t logic to suppose, with our whole set-up changed beyond recognition, that marriage, orthodox marriage, will remain inviolate. Things move forward in this world — and I’m wondering if the “new deal” in love will lead a procession of youngsters past the registrar’s office into strange and divergent paths?
It probably is the old adage worked with new elements. “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” becomes “You can t have this new freedom and the old state of marriage.” It’s one or the other — never both. You may delude yourself that it will work in your case, even though it doesn’t with John and Harriet or Phil and Jeanette, but don’t kid yourself little sister, you are just one of the pack and the big, bad wolf will git you ef you don’t watch out!
Freedom means freedom. It never means marriage — Tor each are extreme opposites.
Freedom as I’ve seen it in my own life in England, wrhere I was born, in Australia, where I played the leading role in musical comedy for several years, and in Hollywood where I came to first play the role of Doris in “Cynara,” means never taking another person into consideration when there’s something you want to do. It means that your time, your heart and your fancies are free as the air — and twice as light — it means that there are explanations to no one and fun for all !
Marriage, on the other hand means tee for
comes
up again — and again.
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