Modern Screen (Dec 1935 - Nov 1936)

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George is married to the beautiful Marguerite Churchill who, in talking with a friend recently, confessed that she was first attracted to her husband because he travelled so much. "He made a lot of pictures," she said, "but he managed to have time to travel all over the world. There was no place you could mention that he had not visited or contemplated visiting in the near future." What was at first a mutual interest developed into an enthusiastic love affair and George and Marguerite were married. "And we've been travelling between pictures ever since," he laughed. "I'm strictly not a routine man," he said. "I can't stay put. I don't want to stay in one place and be the pillar of the town and rust and rot and grow stale. _ I want to go every place and see everything before I'm too old and it all passes me by. "Marguerite is the same way. She likes to travel and see everything and is the best sport about packing up and leaving at a minute's notice. A lot of girls wouldn't do that," he added, with a note of pride. "We thought having a baby would change all that, slow us down for a while, you know, but we had taken two trips before she was three months old. We left her home because she's better off there with the nurse, but we'll soon be taking her along. You see children every place you go. They're on boats, trains and planes. They seem to have every convenience for them these days," he said hopefully. For it is one of his dreams to take his little Orin Ynez (named Ynez because that is the name of the Mexican town where George and Marguerite were married) all over the world with them. "Of course, when she is older and going to school, we can't be jerking her out in the middle of a term and taking her to Japan or Singapore, but that is all the more reason why we want to do our traveling now," he said firmly. "We have a home at the beach. It's not a big place but comfortable, and we call it headquarters." Recently the house next door to the O'Briens' temporary home caught fire in the middle of the night and burned to the ground. Immediately George got his family organized. The baby and the nurse and all the important baby things were bundled into the limousine, which stood in front of the house ready to leave at a word. That attended to, George climbed onto the roof with the garden hose and kept his house wet until the fire chief said the danger was over. Then the O'Briens went back to bed. "Now let's get organized," George said, when his company arrived at a location near Sonora a day early and found camp wasn't prepared. "Let's fix the beds for those who have to work early in the morning and the rest can go to town to a hotel." In no time this was done and everything was "organized" for an early start next morning. A FEW miles away Warner Baxter and his company were making exterior scenes for "Robin Hood of El Dorado," and every night while George was in that camp, Warner was his dinner guest. For the O'Brien company is noted for its good food and every actor in Hollywood knows it. When on a distant location they have a chuck wagon, but when they are working within fifty miles of Hollywood they never eat box lunches, as every other motion picture company does. They have a caterer and the best food money can buy is served them from the swank Victor Hugo in Beverly Hills. Good food, George thinks, comes under the heading of organization. "You save money, there is better feeling and the men work harder if they are well fed," he declares. "All we were up there for was the scenery and we got, in eleven days, what it took Warner's company five weeks to get — even with Warner taking his meals with us ! "Good food on location is insurance against temperament, which is old-fashioned anyway. We have to have good feeding in making outdoor pictures, we work so hard." George introduced the chuck wagon while he was a Fox star, but before it was put into use he had to show the business manager that for 24c a meal he could feed the men on location better meals than they were getting in the 50c box lunches. 82