Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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For Sandra Shaw is not just another girl anxious to become a motion picture headliner. She is, in reality, Veronica Balfe, daughter of Mrs. Paul Shields of New York City and step-daughter of Paul Shields, one of America's foremost capitalists. A graduate of Todhunter's school in New York, of which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is half-owner, and of Miss Bennett's ultra exclusive finishing seminary, Veronica Balfe was introduced to New York society at one of its most dignified social functions in 1931. After a season of New York society, she became restless and ambitious and decided to visit her uncle, Cedric Gibbons — husband of Dolores Del Rio — in Hollywood. She did not come alone. She never goes alone — not even to motion picture theatres. She never has. She has always been accompanied by her chaperone. Nor is this chaperone just an average, paid to protect a young girl woman. She is Elvira Borg, a Swedish woman from an excellent family, who has cared for Veronica Balfe since she was three weeks of age. Hired as a trained nurse, she remained to become governess and almost a second mother to the young girl. In Hollywood, she is frequently called Mrs. Shaw and few people know that this kindly, gently spoken Swedish woman is chaperone and companion for a girl who is a representative of America's fundamental ideas for the training of its women. When Veronica Balfe decided she would like to remain in Hollywood and accept some of the offers made her to try her luck and test her fresh beauty in motion pictures, she changed her name to Sandra Shaw for obvious professional reasons. And with the woman who has seldom been away from her in her twenty young years, took a house in a quiet, shaded section of Beverly Hills. In fact, Sandra Shaw and Elvira Borg live just two doors from this writer. They are my neighbors and I have watched the romance of Sandra and Gary from behind the curtains of my living room windows as neighbors have watched romances from behind curtains since America was discovered. I have seen Gary's car draw up before the front door at proper calling-times in the evening and Gary jump out, bounding with eager enthusiasm to take Sandra to some party and I have seen that car return between eleven and twelve o'clock each evening — bringing her back at "proper" end-of-dating time. And I have glimpsed Miss Borg opening the door for her "young lady." And on those trips to Lake Arrowhead and Arrowhead Springs, Miss Borg has accompanied the young people. Sometimes the newspapers have noted "accompanied by Mrs. Shaw;" sometimes they have forgotten to mention her — but she has always been there. No; it was not love at first sight although Sandra Shaw was thrilled when Gary called her after that original, Eastertime yachting party. I have never known a woman who is not thrilled by the interest of Gary Cooper. He is just that kind of a man as Hollywood has proven. This twenty year-old girl-woman from the sheltered corners of New York City had never been in love before. Girlhood crushes, of course. No girl is so well protected as to avoid them. And perhaps the most serious of these had been with — Gary Cooper. The screen Gary, of course. Miss Borg had accompanied her to a showing of Wolf Song on Broadway. When she had seen Gary gazing from the screen at her, she had felt — "Oh, isn't he marvellous. Isn't he handsome— " Thousands of young girls were saying the same thing, feeling the same thrill, wishing the same wish — "If I could only meet him!" After that picture, Gary Cooper's mail was prodigious. Of course, Veronica Balfe did not write him. But she whispered her thoughts to her nurse and her mother. She whispered many of the same thoughts immediately following the vachting party. Only, she didn't let Gary know of those confidences. For, to a girl like herself, marriage was a serious matter. Her family had always impressed it upon her. They impressed it again and again as the rumors crept into print that Gary Cooper and Sandra Shaw were being seen more and more together. It Is Not Difficult to understand the attitude of that mother and stepfather. Sandra had been reared with the one, old-fashioned American mother and father thought. "We will give her everything; protect her carefully; instill all the best thoughts within her so she can live happily ever after." But could an Hollywood actor make their child happy forever after? It was a natural question. It was even, perhaps, more natural when that actor was Gary Cooper. Engaged to Clara Bow, Evelyn Brent and many others; courted by titled ladies of the smart sets of Europe. They knew Gary only as they had read about him! A man-abouttown; an accomplished heart-breaker. They did not know the Gary who had come originally from the great, open spaces of Montana. They did not know the boy who had been so chuck-full of youthful illusions that he was in Hollywood for three years before he felt qualified to join in a conversation. Remember the publicity about the man who never talked; remember the hints that he was dumb because he was so silent? He was never dumb. He was just trying, in his big-boy way, to make his dreams in-the-saddle blend with what he found in actuality. He was trying to understand women and motion pictures and life. He was attempting to place his young feet upon firm ground and finding only sand. No, Mr. and Mrs. Shields had never known of this original, this fundamental Gary. Mrs. Shields has made several trips to HOLLYWOOD