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

MODERN SCREEN WILL BETTE WED BRENT OR HER "EX"? (Continued from page 27) "own man" again and she's glad of it and says so! And if this isn't the exception which breaks every Narcissus rule, I'll put in with you!) "It hurt him, of course," Bette was saying, "as it did me. We aren't the kind of people, either of us, who were born or raised to such a situation. Things though," said Bette, "they are the devil. They are the things that hurt. They are reminders, like fingers constantly prodding a wound so that it cannot heal. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of people stay married more because of that coffee pot out of which she's poured his coffee every morning for twenty years, because of that chair in which he's sat for eleven years, than because of any less tangible tie between them. "Of course, I am sentimental — revoltingly so. I'm the we-used-to-have-dinner-here, we drove-along-this-road-oneSpring-night type. But even if I were not a sentimentalist, even if both Ham and I were hard-'berled' as bedrock, I'd have a devil of a time forgetting him. Music makes it impossible for me to forget Ham for any length of time. You can't escape music. Every piece of music I hear now, every song sung on the air, I've heard Ham play or sing. And how can he forget me, with my face plastered over billboards, in newspapers, in magazines? Mr. and Mrs. Joe Zilch from Iowa might divorce, take up their residences in different parts of the country and, in time, forget the color of each others' eyes. But not people situated like Ham and me. IT'S because of this sort of thing that we're divorcing now. You can't have any married life when you do the work I'm doing. I wouldn't have children, living as I do now. I'm not the type who could produce a child, turn it over to a starched nurse and say, 'Now I've had you, dear, so run along while I wash my hands of you.' "I know now that I was a fool to marry so young. Not only for my sake, but for Ham's. Which brings us back," said Bette, "to the original premise. Have I been a fool, or haven't I?" Bette and I, by the way, were spending the afternoon in Bette's home down Brentwood way — a rented house. But somehow Bette and her mother always manage to make any house they live in look and feel as though they had lived in it practically all their lives. Maybe it's because they create comfort and not "decor." Maybe it's because there are always lots of books in the little library in which we were sitting, the windows open to early autumn's twilight, eucalyptus logs naming against the scented chill. I thought, "It's always New England where Bette is." Our talk began when Bette showed me her shaven forehead and how the soft, fair hair is growing in again now, a smooth and shining and curiously childlike cap of gold after her role of Elizabeth in "Elizabeth and Essex," when she said, "It was when I was playing Elizabeth that I began to talk to myself, to ask myself, 'Davis, my good girl, have you been a damn fool or haven't you?' " Over the book shelves where the child Bette's "Oz" books stand, the two Oscars seemed to blink sardonic eyes. They were saying, "The greatest actress in "Far better sauce than I can make so quick and easy, too!" THE MINUTE I tasted Franco-American I said, 'Here's where I give up cooking my own spaghetti and struggling over the sauce!' Mine never was as good as this. And oh, the work I had making it! Now all I do is heat and serve." Eleven different ingredients go into Franco American's famous sauce. Tomatoes — specially grown for the tomato puree. Cheese so delicious people beg to know where we get it. Spices and seasonings deftly blended to savory goodness. Serve this tempting spaghetti as main dish or side dish. Combine it with other foods. Order a supply today. A can holding three to four portions is usually only 10 cents — less than 3 cents a portion and you get a "millionaire's dish"! Franco-American SAVORY STUFFED PEPPERS 4 green peppers Vz teaspoon sale 1 can Franco Vi teaspoon Wor American cestershire Spaghetti sauce 1 cup chopped, 2 tablespoons cooked ham or . buttered bread left-over meat crumbs Cut top from green peppers, remove seeds and parboil 5 minutes. Drain. Combine Franco-American Spaghetti, meat and seasonings. Stuff peppers and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in moderately hot oven (375°F.) 25 minutes. Serves 4. Delicious with buttered squash and cabbage salad; cherry cobbler for dessert. The kind with the Extra Good Sauce— Made by the Makers of Campbell's Soups Campbell Soup Company, Dept. 6211 Camden, New Jersey. Please send me your free recipe book: "30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals." SEND FOR FREE RECIPE BOOK Name (print). Address City State _ 69