Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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A. Trying to get a few days rest. It sometimes involves great expense finding a place, flying there because there's little time to be wasted, etc. But it's worth it because getting away from Hollywood and the same people restores your perspective. Q. If you weren't an actor what would you most like to be? A. An airline pilot. Q. In what ways are you lazy? A. My lazy streak really gives me the hardest work. I spend my spare time building things in my workshop which will save me work, like an automatic opening door, and the like. My wife says she never saw a man go through so much agony to save himself work. Q. About what are you most ambitious? A. About flying. I am constantly studying it, taking courses in meteorology, celestial navigation, instrument flying, etc. Q. Are you fussy about food? A. No. I'll eat anything, and usually do. I taught myself to like all kinds of food because 1 once thought I'd travel around the world and I wanted to enjoy the food peculiarities of all the countries. Q. What mannerism have you had to overcome in films? A. That of smiling too much. Directors used to force me to give out with the old smile, but after seeing myself, I got sick of my leering. [Continued on page 40] He'd rather fly than do anything else. An aviation bug, he calls it his "greatest extravagance" but "most fun" With husband Tyrone Power in the Marines, Annabella goes back to her film work. She's in Fox's Secret Mission **Women Mnst IVorlc*9 -§ay§ Annabella | Annabella has the face of a gamin and the quick, mischievous smile of an unruly twelve-year-old. But when you look in her eyes, you see they are deep with the things she has learned through living and thinking. They are also the eyes of a woman who has learned how to achieve happiness. She was on the set of Secret Mission, her first important picture since her marriage to Tyrone Power, three and a half years ago. Immediately upon her marriage, the usual barrage of questions faced her — "Shall she continue on the screen? Can a woman be a good wife and a successful actress?" To both, she answered an emphatic yes. But Annabella permitted long months to go by after her marriage without even thinking of work. She was reading, digging in the garden, and concentrating on making a happy marriage. She would frequently say, "I have everything I want. I am busy. I am happy. I am not Bv SOMA LEE even thinking of work. I don't need to." And that is the key to Annabella's insistence today that women must work, not as an escape from the ghastly realities, nor solely as a means to fill empty hours. "I have never believed in work as a means of escape," she declares. "I have always believed it a bit stupid for a woman to say, 'I'm bored. I think I'll find a job.' Work should never be a stop-gap. a second-best. You must work because there is within you a need to accomplish something. Or even to earn the money work brings. You must have a need of work as such, and not as a substitute for something else you can't find. "Most of us today must work. I know I must. I have responsibilities. Tyrone will be in the service very shortly. I should like, if it's possible, to keep our house open, and the things we have built together intact." Keeping that house open will present [Continued on page 60] 27