Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

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TRIAL BOTTLE 104 "The kind of dangers I might suppose," I said hopefully, "would be wine, women, song, the old snares, the old traps, baited with new bewitching flowers . . ." "No, I do not mean things like that," Mr. Boyer said, promptly squashing my erotic imaginings. "Hollywood," he said flatly and, I must admit, disappointingly, "is the safest place in the world. This sounds contradictory, but let me explain. A man is safer here than ever he would be in Paris, New York, London or Budapest. Marriage is safer here, too — because Hollywood offers a man fewer temptations than does any other place in the world. "I," laughed Boyer, enjoying my face which was twisted into the shape of a dizzy question mark, "I am safer here than I would be anywhere else. It is too obvious here. The temptations, they are all spread out in the brazen sunshine, the romance, the intrigue, the rendezvous. When they are not spread out in the sunlight day, emerging from some unexpected alley of your life, it is possible to meet some charming woman, to have the tete-a-tete with her, to keep your meetings shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Romance breathes best in the dark. Such chance encounters are provocative. They stir the imagination and that stirs the heart. And so romance in such cities of — how shall I say it? — crannies, can easily become insidious, tempting, where the unsecret and unmysterious romances of Hollywood cannot. Yes, it is the safest place in the world, Hollywood," said Mr. Boyer, and laughed his quiet laugh. I said, "The women you work with in pictures, though — like Hedy Lamarr, for Pete's sake — surely they constitute temptation ?" "No," said Mr. Boyer. "No, they do not. Yes, we work with beautiful women. But you must remember that we see these beautiful women with thick make-up coat Yes, things have changed for Hepburn. Once, Katie scorned to pose for photogs — now, she's even signing autographs. Could it be because she hasn't worked since "Holiday?" they are spread out in print, in public places where all may see and gossip and so, destroy. For the obvious is never alluring. A woman with a veil offers more provocation than a woman without a veil, but always. Hollywood is a woman without a veil. "One knows all that goes on in Hollywood. There is nothing left to the imagination. We know that So-and-So "goes with" Such-and-Such one week and the next week So-and-So is going with some other Such-and-Such. And so it continues, forever changing partners in a pattern that never changes at all." "But women?" I persisted. "The most beautiful women in the world are here in Hollywood working with you daily. What then?" "It is too obvious," repeated Mr. Boyer. "Romances, intrigues must come from the outside, must come unexpectedly, must not be a part of your workaday life. Yes, as the woman from Paris entered the Casbah and the life of Pepe Le Moko, so do temptation and danger come. In Paris, London or New York, you are more likely to find romance insinuating itself into your heart. There, knocking at your door one ing their faces, withjieavy lipstick on their mouths, lipstick we must not disturb by a too-impassioned kiss. We are conscious of the woman's make-up more than of the woman herself. We are conscious, too, of the lines we must speak. These are more vital to us than the lines of the most divine figure. We are conscious of the director, the cameraman, the visitors on the sets. I say again, it is when we least expect it, it is when the stage is not set, when the lights are not on, when the lines are not written for us, that we are in danger, that romance finds us out." "And when you married?" I mentioned. "Yes," said Mr. Boyer, "don't you see, that was the sudden, the unexpected. I had no such thought in my mind, no wish to fall in love. In fact, the contrary. I had determined not to marry at all. I had determined that marriage was not for me. Then Pat and I met and within two months we were married. And because a gambler does sometimes put his chips on the right color, so a lover sometimes stakes his heart on the right woman and the marriage works out with unexpected substantiality and happiness. "No, when I said that Hollywood is a 94