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"If he's not worth fighting for he's not worth
having!" — Mae West "If you have to struggle to hold a man's affection he isn't worth the effort!" — Jean Harlow
"You're defeating your own purpose when you think you
have to fight to hold your man" says Jean Harlow, who
is shown here with Franchot Tone
"T f You Have to struggle to hold a man's affection he isn't worth the effort!" That ■A is how Jean Harlow summarizes itJean, who typifies all the freedom and independence of the new era. Who is as modern as tomorrow — and just as unpredictable.
Jean, at twenty-two, has been married three times. Mae West, at thirty -two, has never been married. Both are the kind of women men can't forget. Sensational screen sirens. Glamour girls who know all the answers — but they differ on this one. Listen to what Jean says:
"You're defeating your own end when you so much as think, I have to fight to hold this man. You're placing a terrific handicap on your romance. Because you are implying doubt. Doubt in your husband, doubt in yourself. No love can live under such conditions. If you enter into marriage with the idea that it's going to be an endurance contest and all other women are your opponents — well, you might as well say 'Good morning, judge!' right then and there.
"I know a girl who had that thought. Just before the wedding bells chimed a wiseacre aunt whispered to her, 'Now, Ann, my dear, remember Bill is your particular property. Don't let him out of your grasp for a minute.' And Ann didn't. If Bill came home tired and kissed her a little abstractedly it was a sure sign to her way of thinking that she was slipping in her looks. So she'd go out and get a new dress and an expensive facial.
SEPTEMBER, 1934
"7 know I fight to hold my men on the screen," Jean Harlow says, "but you're placing too great a handicap on romance when you do this in real life"
"If he admired another girl's athletic ability or sophisticated wit or cute ways, Ann just knew he didn't love her any more. She'd sulk for a while. Then a day or two later she would do her best to pattern herself after that other girl. She judged everything from the am-I-fighting-hard-enough-tohold-him? angle. It was something of a strain. Bill felt it. So did their marriage bond. Finally it broke.
''It was only then that Ann woke up. Someone said: 'Why don't you try being like you were when Bill fell in love with you? Don't work so hard at trying to fascinate him.' It was the soundest advice in the world. They're remarried now. And happy.
• ''Why should a woman be different after marriage anyway? Why shouldn't she go right on being a man's sweetheart and treating him like she did when they were engaged? There's no need to take that terribly possessive air with him. He's a free individual. So are you. It's the worst mistake a woman can make to attempt to change herself into something she's not — or to attempt transforming her husband!
"A man falls in love with you because you have certain qualities. Don't alter them after the last of the rice has been thrown. Accentuate them. Do your utmost to make the type you are outstanding. To be definitely, clearly yourself. Your best self. Then if you fail, you can't have any regrets." Jean shrugged. There
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