Modern Screen (Dec 1937 - Nov 1938)

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MDTDAL BENEFIT WE DON'T need that old adage about a person being known by the company he keeps to see that Bob Taylor's selection of Barbara Stanwyck for his off -screen, and occasionally on-the-screen-too, sweetheart did a lot for the career of that same Barbara Stanwyck. It didn't make her a better actress — Barbara has always been that— but it did bring her to the fore and onto the front pages and into the minds of millions of movie-goers as she had never been brought before. But this story isn't about that— that is the obvious thing — and there is a Bob-benefit in Barbara's life which goes much deeper, a much more dramatic and heartwarming story. Countless stories have been written about what Barbara has done for Bob: how her advice guided him, how her confidence sustained him, how the constant companionship of this sturdy-fibered, common-sense girl was a safe tether in this giddy-gaddy town. . It's time now at last, that the other part of^ the story be told. It has somewhere been written that a love only lasts when each of the two who share that love gives something good and great to the other. In this story, then, you will also find the reason why Bob and Barbara are, just about now, celebrating their second friendship anniversary. It was six months after Barbara had come to the end of her marriage with Frank Fay that she met Bob. To describe the girl she was at that time is to describe a drab-hearted young woman who already felt that her BARBARA STANWYCK'S ROMANCE WITH BOB AN ANCHOR. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! HERE'S WHAT