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

MODERN SCREEN LOVE AT FIRST SLIGHT (Continued from page 31) "Yes, I have. Twice. Why?" Pause. More pause. "Well, did you see 'Kid Galahad?'" "Kid Galahad" is his particular pride and joy, so that when she answered, "Yes, and I liked it," he fairly beamed. "Oh, you don't have to turn that movie smile on me!" she retorted. And then she saw that her squelching had been too thorough. There was a sad hurt little -boy expression on his face — and she was sorry. In that moment the pendulum swung, and from then on Bubbles behaved nicely and with interest. At El Morocco a little later, Mrs. Schinasi made the excuse to leave early and fully expected her daughter to rush at the chance of escaping with her. But Bubbles said she thought she'd stay on a while with Mr. Morris, that her headache was quite gone. (She had feigned one earlier in the evening, just in case she needed it later.) Nevertheless the goodbyes between Mr. Morris and Mrs. Schinasi had all the aspects of finality. Wayne had said that he would be in town only a few days, and Mrs. Schinasi naturally assumed that that would be the last she would see of him. She had a whopping surprise in store for her, however. The next morning she left the house early to spend the day in the country. She peeked into Bubbles' room first and saw that Wayne had returned her all in one piece as he had promised. Then she tip-toed away without waking her. When she returned around six in the evening and walked into her own private sitting-room, there was the surprise. It was seated in its shirt sleeves in the center of the floor playing dominoes with the entire family, Bubbles, Leon and Betty, the latter two aged twelve and ten respectively. This certainly was not the formal young man to whom she had bade farewell the evening before — yet it did resemble him. "Hello, Mom!" the surprise greeted her. "That's right!" chorused the two kids. "Wayne and Bubbles are going to be married!" YES, it was just like that, just as sudden and just as unexpected," Bubbles says now. "We wanted to elope, but Mother wouldn't hear of it. She said that first of all it was unfair to Wayne's mother, who should be allowed to meet me first, and it was unfair to us. She said you just couldn't hop up and marry someone you had known only twentyfour hours. It just wasn't done. So in the end we had to agree with her. Wayne returned to Hollywood to make 'The Kid From Kokomo' and for a month we wrote about three times a day to each other, talked on the telephone once a day, and then sent a wire or two besides for good measure. Then at the end of the month Mother and I came out and several weeks later Wayne and I were married. "Incidentally, during that month in New York I think I saw 'Brother Rat' about twenty times. It kept me from being lonesome. It's funny — before, I hadn't particularly liked Wayne on the screen, but now it was different. I liked the love scenes particularly; I thought he was so cute in them. And because I didn't feel jealous, I figured maybe I could be an actor's wife and not suffer too much from it. If I had been a jealous type I might have had my doubts. Of course I knew that there would be some things that it would take me a long, long while to get used to and there have been, too," she added seriously. "When I married Wayne, I really had little idea of what a responsibility it is to marry an actor. We were in Havana, still on our honeymoon, when Wayne suddenly received a wire from the studio to fly to Washington and appear there at the President's Birthday Celebration. It meant coming in out of the moonlight and getting back into the bright lights and the crowds, at a moment's notice. It meant, too, that I had to appear with him when he made a guest appearance on the radio or at some theatre — and for a girl who has had no theatrical training, these little things are really big ordeals. 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