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

MODERN SCREEN doctors, with business men, with writers. There are many loves in this world, the love of the man for his mother, for his child, for his dog, his work, his wife. "I am very specially in debt to Pat, my wife. For her love, which I do not need to speak of, but also because of the many tendencies which I had and which, thanks to her, I have no longer. I was very much afraid of marriage. I did not think it would be for me. I had to make the right choice to find out that I was wrong. I had always a tendency to be older than my age. And now," Mr. Boyer laughed a little, at himself, "now, since my marriage, it is the contrary! Now I am younger than my age in many of my actions and my thoughts, because Pat is even younger than her age which is much younger than mine. I had a tendency to look always at the serious side of things, to stay at home and read. We do not go out very much, now, but it is because we have more fun in our home. My sense of humor was not very good before I married. It is better now. It was as though I had always lived in the shade and now I am living in the sun. "The love of one woman teaches you, too, that if you could have all the women in the world, and did not have the one woman you want, it would be no good. That is why it is absurd when people ask 'does it affect you, the adulation of many women?' It is as I said, flattering, of course. But when the heart belongs to one woman, the others cannot matter. "Yes, I am in debt to all women, to all the women I have met and to all the women I have been a little in love with. For it is women who make men what they are, or what they are not. It is women who mould us, beginning with our mothers. It is women who mould us, especially, as lovers. It is women who make men understand the heart. "Since we made 'Love Affair,' I have had many letters asking me what are the ingredients which should be in the successful love affair. That is not possible to answer because in every love affair, as in every friendship, in every human relationship, it is the individuals who determine what is there, what color, what tone, whether it is poetry or prose, whether it is passionate, profound, gay. IF it should happen to be, for instance, a love affair with a very young girl the ingredients, then, would be chivalry, protectiveness, the rendezvous in places suitable for a young girl to go, the pleasures which are simple. If the love affair is with an older woman, herself sophisticated and experienced, the ingredients are entirely different. If the love affair is with a gay and frivolous girl, it is played to the strains of a Strauss waltz. If with a grave and serious girl, one reads the poetry, the philosophy, there are the minor chords. To one woman, one sends the marguerites. To another, the orchids. Books and music to one, jewels to another according to the type, the age. So that one cannot say what are the ingredients for a love affair unless one knows the persons involved. "I think that in any love affair, it is the woman who tells what the ingredients are to be. Just as in 'Love Affair,' it was the girl, Terry, who made the man, Michel, what he became. The girl, almost always, plays the piper and calls the tune. The man, sooner or later, dances to that tune. Especially in Europe, I think, is it true that the women make the man understand the way of love affairs. In America, I think, the woman teaches the man a little too much. Which is to make him feel more the waiter, the butler, than the lover. When a woman gives an order to a man, like saying, 'Bill, pick up my glove,' Bill picks up the glove but he does not understand from within. Or if the woman waits for the man to allow her to pass out of a door before him, that is not good. "In Europe, the women do not teach the men, they make him understand the gallantries by making him ashamed of his own gaucheries. In Europe, once, a lovely lady dropped her glove. She did not wait for me to pick it up, she picked it up herself. This made me ashamed of myself so that, the next time, I remembered. In Europe, a woman does not wait for a man to permit her to precede him out of a door, into a car. If he does not do so himself, she will go out of the door after him. But he will never commit the faux pas again! In Europe a woman once said to me, 'A friend of mine gave a friend of his something charming — not on her birthday'.' And this gave me the idea that it is charming to do, for a woman, the unexpected, the graceful, the surprising thing. "So, little by little, you find yourself doing these charming things. And so, I should say that if there is any one ingredient which one can name for a love affair, it is that we do what we do out of impulse, not because it is 'the thing to do.' And so I say, too, that if I have acquired any dexterity in playing a love affair, on the screen, it is because a lovely lady once dropped her glove and I did not pick it up! "So it is that all my life, I am in debt to that lady and to her fallen glove. So, all my life, I am in debt to these others I have mentioned, because all my life I must always be paying back these debts with the lessons they have taught me, which are the gifts they have given me." If YOUR EYES ARE BROWN , LI KE MERLE ObERON S you'll find new complexion flattery in ftlRRVELOUS HIrkeup Harmonizing Powder, Rouge, Lipstick, Keyed to the Co/or of Your Eyes'. What enchanting new loveliness it brings — this amazing new discovery by the makers of Marvelous! 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