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How would you feel if you were a stranger in a large city and you're best dress blew out of the hotel window? It actually happened to Irene.
When Dr. Griffin met Irene for the first time, he asked for her telephone number —but he didn't use it for months! Now they're a very happily married couple.
Reviewing a "perfect lady's" past from a taxicab is surely novel, but very informative in this instance
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her dreams and her plans in those days and has she found fulfillment ?
I also wanted to know how she spends those long vacations in New York now. Everybody knows, of course, that she doesn't spend 'em like the typical Hollywood belle — in and out of the Stork Club, El Morocco, 21 and Tony's — flashing ermines and jewels at poor benighted New Yorkers. No, that isn't Irene Dunne. We all know she goes quietly about her own business, but what is it and where is it ?
I was extremely curious about Irene Dunne because she never seems to be secretive about what she does, yet nobody seems to know much about her except that she's a pretty nice girl, a good actress, a beautiful woman, a good singer and a fine comedienne. (If you don't believe the last, see "Theodora Goes Wild." It's a honey.)
And so she said, "Shall we go way back to the begin
ning ? Yes ? Well, my first memory of New York is tied up with the Pennsylvania Hotel. You know it? You don't? Well, you know where it is?" "No," I replied weakly.
"That's right. You're a stranger in New York, aren't you? Well, I don't suppose I'll ever forget either the Pennsylvania Hotel or the Metropolitan Opera House — they are tied up with my most dramatic first memories of New York. You know where the Met is, don't you?"
"No," I replied. "But once in New York I suggested to Norma Shearer that we take a bus ride and look the town over from the upper deck. Could we take a bus ride? And would you point out some of the places associated with your early memories and tell what they meant to you?"
We took a taxi because we decided that no single bus could follow the route Irene (Continued on page 98)
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