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

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MODERN SCREEN iTear, I don't give a damn.' When a man tan no longer be angry or jealous, then a marriage has truly gone on the rocks. It is only the corpse of the marriage whose hones you hear rattling." "When did you and Mayo decide that you really loved one another?'' I asked. Mayo and Humphrey looked at each other, and suddenly there was something in that room which sounded like the passing of enchanted wings. They were swung back in time and space, back to the time when they really began to know and love one another. "I don't believe in fate exactly," Humphrey said, "and yet there is some system that must work to make a pattern of our lives. If a member of Mayo's party hadn't become ill at the Screen Actor's Ball, we might never have fallen in love." Dressed in flaming red, Mayo had come to the party with a group of friends. Humphrey was with his own group. Then this certain person became ill, and her friends went home with her, thus giving Humphrey a chance to say to Mayo, "Why don't you stay anyway? I'll take you home later on." And suddenly they were talking together, and Mayo was telling Humphrey how much she had hated him the first time she saw him, and he was telling her what a conceited, spoiled girl he had thought her. Neither of them meant to fall in love, but two people as vital and alive as Humphrey and Mayo cannot build a wall around their hearts to shut love out, no matter how much they may try, for life inevitably will break down such walls. Against all reason Humphrey and Mayo were attracted to each other. "I remember the very moment we really fell in love," Mayo told me. "I know it happened to me at that moment, and Bogey has told me since that it did to ' him, too." Mayo was working in the garden back of her home, wearing a pair of yellow shorts, with a yellow bow, like a great big butterfly in her hair, and as she stood there, Humphrey came to call, and saw her standing on the other side of the fence. Do you remember the scene in "Four Daughters" where Jeffrey Lynn swings on one side of a fence and Priscilla Lane on the other, and while they swing, they fall in love ? It was much the same way with Humphrey and Mayo. Suddenly they looked at each other — and each knew that this was love. DUT after all, they weren't children in their teens falling in love for the first time. They were sophisticated adults, and no matter what their hearts told them, they knew how often love had deceived them in the past — and they were determined not to make any mistakes now. What if they were wrong after all, and this wasn't real love, but mere infatuation? Oh, they knew very well that this was real love, but just suppose. Didn't they owe it to themselves and to each other to be sure with the utmost certainty that two human beings can possibly attain? And so they decided to do the hardest thing in the world for two people in love — to separate and let time test their love. If it was real, they knew no separation could hurt or harm it. And if it wasn't real, better by far to let it die than to risk marriage once again, if it wasn't going to last. At the end of four months they knew even more surely than they had known in the beginning, even more surely than they had known when Humphrey stood on one side of the fence and the fair-haired Mayo on the other, looking at each other as though they would never be able to stop. They were married at the home of Melville Baker, the writer, a very close friend of Humphrey's, and Mayo looked so radiant in a gold cloth mesh dress with a Juliet cap on her hair that once again Humphrey couldn't stop looking. When Judge Lindsey — that very fine, humanitarian judge who cares little about the letter of the law but worships its spirit — married them, he went rapidly through the marriage ceremony, as though the actual words of the ceremony were not the main thing. When he had completed it, he paused and said, "And now, Mayo and _ Humphrey, what I've said means nothing. Whether or not your marriage is a success is up to you. No law of God or man can make a marriage successful, unless the two people who are married work at it." "I thought that was a splendid thing to say," Humphrey told me. "So many people think that because a priest has said certain words over you, you don't have to work to make your marriage a success. I know that I'm the last man in the world who should be asked for or give an opinion on how to be happy though married or how to stay married, but I hope I've learned from the mistakes I've made in the past, and Mayo and I will both work to make this marriage a success." 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