Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1947)

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Jane is no slouch on the domestic side. In fact, at this point, I'll have to tell you what a farsighted mother she is. She's already planning Maureen's wedding. It seems when Ronnie and Jane were engaged a few years ago in Hollywood, Ronnie gave Jane a huge amethyst ring, instead of the usual diamond sparkler. It was a birthstone, that's why. At the wedding, he came through with a clip of the same beautiful stone and at every anniversary since he's contributed a bracelet or something else to match. Jane keeps these all packed away — with her wedding dress — for Maureen to wear when she's a bride. The reason I know this intimate and sentimental bit of Reagan family lore is because Jane wore that wedding dress (it's ice-blue and does she look a dream in it!) and all the amethyst pretties one night at a party she gave. That party she gave was something very special indeed — even in Hollywood. The last guests made their adieus at 5:30 a.m. I know, because those last guests, I'm afraid, were the Pecks. Jane loves to entertain and she'll worry for weeks to dig up a new idea. This particular party, for instance, was a birthday party for Joan Crawford — and it posed a problem to Jane. How to bring in the cake without the old tired routine of lighting candles while the guests harmonized (they thought) on "Happy Birthday to You"? The Reagans had their back-yard all covered with cellophane and lights that night to create a night club interior outdoors. Ronnie emceed at a microphone and along about the middle of the evening he stepped up and announced. "Ladies and gentlemen — welcome to our modest plush-lined saloon. I must explain the reason for this party. There's a little lady in your midst who likes to sing. She can't sing anywhere else because they won't ever let her. But she's boss here, so — ladies and gentlemen — I give you Jane Wyman, and you're stuck with her — " frustrated singer . . . Jane stepped up to the microphone like the most frustrated torch singer and the orchestra gave her a slow beat. She's always dying to sing, and all her friends know it. Some of them half believed Ronnie's pitch. But what Jane sang was "Happy Birthday to You" to Joan Crawford— as the cake came in. It was a neat surprise and you can be sure that's just what Ronnie and Jane had beaten their brains to achieve. The first time we actors of The Yearling saw the finished picture was one night when Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin, who directed and produced it, asked us to a private, pre-preview showing at the studio. There were just a few of us there — Ronnie and Jane, Greta and I, Clarence and Sidney, Claude and his mother. After the screening we went across the alley to a little beanery. We drank toasts and decided the world was a wonderful place and that we all loved each other. Then Jane started dabbing her nose, and we tried not to notice — until the tears became too big and often. We thought we understood. This was the payoff of thirteen years of fighting her way to the top for Jane Wyman. But that wasn't what Jane was thinking about. She wasn't crying for joy over her success. What made Jane cry was the same sad and wistful feeling you have when you're graduated from a school youve loved, or quit any place where you've left part of your heart. But that was really the beginning for Jane Wyman— the start of a new, bright career. I'm sure of that. I hope she'll let