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Dr Scholl's "Zino-pads There it a Dr. Scho|l Remedy, Appliance or Arch Support lor Every Foot Trouble A Hollywood Bride Has Problems [Continued from page 19] ventional question as to "who giveth this woman in marriage?" instead of stepping back with the others assembled, as he was supposed to do, he just kept on standing there at the altar with the bride and groom . . . "So close to us," Virginia told me, "that Sonny could hardly put the ring on my finger. We whispered to him to get back but he didn't hear us and just kept standing there, knowing something was wrong, but not knowing exactly what to do about it. Of course, it didn't matter, but it was hard on him and it all happened because I couldn't find time to rehearse. I guess it was a sort of omen," Virginia said, ruefully. "Because, while 'career' certainly hasn't interfered with the course of true love in our case, it hasn't exactly made the course of true marriage run very smoothly." H Take, for instance, the matter of the "thank you" notes. Virginia had some seventy-five to write and with her own lily white hand, too. Moreover, she takes pains with such things. She always wants everyone to know she is really grateful for kindnesses. She was starting on the list one morning shortly after the wedding, safe — she thought — in the promise from the studio that she wouldn't have to work that day. She had everything spread out on beds and tables — each gift with its donor's card carefully adjacent so there would be no mistakes or confusions. Then the phone rang. She was wanted at the studio right away. Well, a call from the studio is a call from the studio. She left the gifts and cards where they were, spread out all over everywhere, and dashed off. She was gone several hours but not so long there wouldn't have been time to work some more on the "thank you" notes. "I'll pick up right where I left off," she said to herself. But those were idle, mistaken words. When she got home she found that her new housekeeper, a Filipino woman trained to be orderly and to keep "t'ings nise, pliss," had carefully stowed the gifts away in a closet and as carefully had stacked the cards up in a pile and tied them together with a ribbon! "I felt like putting an ad in the paper," Virginia said. " 'Will the friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Ruben who so kindly remembered them with wedding gifts, please overlook it if they are thanked for a salad bowl when they gave a luncheon set?' "Of course Sonny and I sorted things out as best we could before I wrote any more notes, but we didn't do too well. I thanked Norma Shearer for salad plates when it should have been dessert plates. I thanked some other friends for a cocktail set when they had given us linen and vice versa. And worse than that, I thanked a business acquaintance of Sonny's for some prints only to find out later he never gave us anything while, on the other hand, to this day I have NOT been able to find out who gave us those lovely prints. "And that," she finished ruefully, "is an example of the trials and tribulations of a married woman who is also a movie actress!" ■ There was also at that time the servant problem to solve which, as it happened, was something of an international problem, too, on account of Mac. Not that Mac is his name. Mac is a Filipino and his real name is something long and unpronounceable. "Sonny" Ruben has had him for ages. He is a wonderful cook and "Sonny" wouldn't lose him for anything. But when it came to enlarging the Ruben establishment to accomodate a wife, with the attendant need for more servants, Mac, something of a despot, insisted the new ones be Filipino, too. "We getting along more better," he suggested. But to find the right ones was not so easy. The Rubens wanted a married couple trained to carry on in a home whose mistress was likely as not to be absent most of the time. Virginia interviewed a dozen or so pairs of candidates without success. Whereupon Mac volunteered to help her. "I finding extreme good man and wife," he announced. Well, he "finding" them all right, and they knew how to do the things they were supposed to do . . . Except that the wife couldn't understand English. She would bow and smile confidently at every request, but, likely as not, if Virginia told her of a morning she would wear the grey suit today, Clemencia would get out a chiffon afternoon frock. If Virginia asked her for a glass of hot milk, ginger ale or maybe orange juice would be forthcoming. It got to be pretty disconcerting, and when, one night, rushing home late to keep a dinner engagement, Virginia found a complete beach ensemble laid out neatly for her to wear, she gave up. Clemencia and her husband had to go and Robert and Grace, also Filipino, shamelessly bribed away from the Robert Youngs (Virginia admits it) took their places. ■ Being well versed in both housekeeping and English, Robert and Grace did very well — so well, in fact, that Virginia felt justified in installing an extra bit of domestic efficiency and thrift — a household budget. So much for this. So much for that. So much for the other thing. Robert, Grace and Mac were to carry it out. She explained to them carefully. Each Monday morning Mr. Ruben would give them a certain amount of money to cover the week's expenses and this money was to DO! Did they understand? They did. They bowed deeply and importantly. They understood perfectly. Well, it worked at first Things went along fine. Virginia, deep in the process cf making Yellow Jack came home from work every night to a beautifully run home . . . until a certain Saturday night when she and "Sonny" had planned to have a quiet dinner alone and an evening of chess. 46 MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT