Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

-neet one that isn't they're a little disappointed. It's this same honesty in Ava that's he root of some of her seemingly strange 'ears. When we talked once about her iiarriage to Artie Shaw, she made a frank and willing confession. "I made plenty of -nistakes there," she said. "I was rather Voung and quite cocksure at first. You ";ee, I had always been spoiled at home, and my first marriage to Mickey Rooney ;iadn't taught me much. ' "The longer I lived with Artie," she confessed, "the more I feared I wouldn't reach Shis intellectual plane." Ignoring the fact T:hat Mr. Shaw is famous for gleefully getting any girl he's with realize that she .:sn't in his mental league, Ava went on: : 'I tried to join in on his friends' conversations and participate in his interests, but :". always had the fear that I would embarrass him. It got to be a phobia with Ijne until I was almost continually being thrown for a loss. I know now that I !:ried too hard to be what he wanted me ';o be. I read at every free moment, anything I could get my hands on. Not realizing that you can't become a Ph.D. in a couple of years, I even took a course in "inglish literature and economics." At the time I didn't tell Ava that as I "istened to her it occurred to me that husoand Artie would have done well to take a course in the Appreciation of Girls who Are Regular Guys. Perhaps then, fear .vouldn't have been the destructive factor n their marriage. If Artie had tried to neet her intellectually, she might not have lad the dread of being held up to contempt as mentally mediocre. In retrospect, it is easy to understand xhy Artie still holds a fascination for Ava : and why she grasps every opportunity to see him. -he farmer's daughter . . . In a way, Ava always has been on the mtside looking in. Originally she was a ^orth Carolina farmer's daughter. 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