Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER {Continued from page 62) she added. "I'm not interested in marriage. I'm interested in skating." Fade-out Sonja Henie! Fade-in Janet Gaynor! Up until the advent of Linda Christian, Ty has usually preferred the company of women older than he. Highly intelligent, he has found himself attuned to their likes, their standards, their settled ways. Janet Gaynor was eight years older than Ty when they began going with each other. She had known success for many years, and possessed wealth and charm and beauty. Power, newly come upon fame, found her maturity, her sharp intellect, completely irresistible. But only for a short while. For six months, however, he courted her exclusively. There was for him no other woman in the world. (Power always has been a one-woman-at-a-time practitioner.) Naturally, the wedding bells were prematurely rung by the columnists. As they were rung more frequently, Ty began seeing less and less of Miss Gaynor. Finally, he broke off, and Janet married Gilbert Adrian, the dress-designer — just as, 10 years later, Lana Turner was destined to marry Bob Topping, what romance? . . When Miss Gaynor was asked why her companionship with Ty had failed to ripen into matrimony, she told reporters that Ty had never discussed the subject, that their romance was merely a dream conjured up by the newspapers. Through it all, Ty held his tongue. Fade-out Janet Gaynor! Fade-in Norma Shearer! Norma was nine years older than Ty. She had lost her husband, Irving Thalberg, in the 1930's. She was extremely wealthy, extremely talented, extremely anything good you want to think of. Ty phoned for dates. Lonely, knowing that despite death, life must go on, Norma decided to accept the young man's invitations. They became a well-known combination. When people began discussing them in terms of matrimony, Mr. Power stopped concentrating on Miss Shearer and started concentrating on his career. When she was asked what had caused the break in their romance, Miss Shearer evinced surprise. "What romance?" There had never been any romance between her and Mr. Power. As usual, Ty said nothing. The only times he has talked about any woman, he has talked about his two wives, Annabella and Linda. In 1939, Ty frankly told the press that he would marry Annabella as soon as they could get a Papal dispensation. It wasn't forthcoming, but Ty married Annabella anyway. She gave her age as 26. He said he was 25. For three years Ty and Annabella lived together as man and wife. On August 24, 1942, Ty enlisted in the Marines as a private. Four years later, he was released as a senior lieutenant in naval aviation. He tried to take up his marriage where he'd left off, but apparently something was wrong. Either he'd outgrown Annabella or Annabella had outgrown him. According to papers filed by Annabella in the California Superior Court, Ty told his wife six months after he left the service that "he was no longer inclined to accept the responsibilities of marriage." He was leaving home. Fade-out Annabella. Fade-in Lana Turner and Linda Christian. It was while Ty was going with Lana that he met Linda. Few people realized that there was any fondness between these two until Linda suddenly showed up in Rome while Ty was there on his roundthe-world trip. It then became apparent to those in the know that Ty would drop Lana as soon as he hit the States and substitute Linda for her. No one, however, expected the darkhaired Lothario to marry the Mexican girl. All Hollywood underrated Linda — largely because Hollywood didn't know her and has never really known Tyrone. Many persons thought they knew Power, thought they knew all about the women he liked — the older women, the charmers, the sophisticates. Some of them had predicted that he would never marry Turner because she wasn't sufficiently mature and worldly. They were right. These same prophets imagined that they could predict correctly about Linda Christian. They were wrong. She knew from the start that she would marry Tyrone, and she so told the Countess Van Home, one of those continental dowagers who introduce attractive young girls around town. Through the Countess, Linda met the Hollywood upper crust. What made Linda so confident about capturing Ty, especially when some pretty nifty predecessors had failed, she alone knows, and at the moment, she isn't telling. We do know, though, that of all the women Power had gone with previously, Linda was the only one who was willing to give up her career for marriage. There are some who say that she didn't have much of a career to give up, that she'd been put in a Tarzan picture largely through the intervention of Bo Roos, a Hollywood business manager, and that she had done precious little acting — but such catty comments don't alter the fact. And the fact is that Linda does not want a career. She wants a husband, a home, and five kids. womanly-wise . . . If Lana had wanted such domesticity, if Sonja Henie, Janet Gaynor, and the others had wanted the same thing, perhaps Ty might have married one of them. The undeniable fact, however, is that Linda was the first girl Ty had ever gone with who was willing to renounce everything for that gold band on the second finger. In addition, she was loaded with characteristics he admired. She was a linguist, she was better educated than he (there is no part of the world in which she doesn't feel at home), she made no great demands for riches, wealth, or ostentation. She also ran into Ty at the right strategic time. A man who has been married once is almost dead-certain to get married again. Over the years he becomes accustomed to a woman around the house, and he misses a hostess and all the feminine niceties that come with a wife. Moreover, Linda knew what traits appealed to Ty and, being equipped with these, she brought them to the fore. Linda is the seventh woman of any importance in the love-life of Tyrone Power. She told her 18-year-old sister, Ariadna, who was her bridesmaid, "No matter what people say, I will be his best and last." If anyone can speak with authority on the matter, the womanly-wise and beautiful Linda is clearly the one to do so. The End YOUR hair can be and The rinse that really blends in gray, beautifies and glorifies all shades of hair with abundant temporary COLOR...Color that looks so natural. 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