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CAN YOU SAFEGUARD MARRIAGE?
(Above) Carole and Chester Morris in "Sinners in the Sun." Speaking of her marriage, Carole says that two people either care about each other or they don't. That happiness can't be worked at— like a job.
By HELEN LOUISE WALKER
"W" ATE last year a prominent astrologer issued a "warnl^V ing" directed to Carole Lom. bard and Bill Powell. They must, he cautioned, take extraordinary pains to safeguard their marriage during the year — especially the summer — of 1932. Their happiness would be in grave danger during that period. Let them beware!
There had been rumors, even before that, of a rift in the lute of the Powells' happiness. Carole, you remember, had the misfortune to be taken seriously ill during their honeymoon in Honolulu — and she has not been really well since that time. She has been constantly under the care of physicians and she has been forced to spend days at a time in bed. She has had to watch her diet and guard her hours of rest. There have been few trips, few parties, few appearances in public for the Powells during this first year of their marriage. It must have been a little difficult for both of them for they are both cheery people who like to go about and see other people — and do things. That enforced withdrawal from society probably gave rise to the first rumors.
And — well, here it is 1932 and summer is gone — and Carole is feeling and looking better than she has in months — and the rumors are flying thicker than ever. But I can't see that Carole and Bill are doing the least bit of bewaring!
"How can you 'safeguard' a marriage?" Carole Lombard demanded of me, indignantly. "You can't take precautions about it or make predictions or do one single thing to stop it if it is going to fall apart. Two people either care about one another and want to be together —
or they don't. You can't work at happiness the way you can at a career or a patchwork quilt. Happiness is a thing that happens to you. The end of it comes, just as the beginning — unexpectedly and of its own accord.
YOU can't plan emotions as you do a trip to the dentist. You can't say, T shall feel this way — and not that — a. week from tomorrow.' You don't know anything about how you will feel.
"Bill and I agreed long ago never to make any predictions about ourselves— even to each other. Too many
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