Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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However, Mr. Sherry must have been under rigid restrictions, because when a photographer showed up at the cafe for some welcome-home pictures, Mr. Sherry ran like a rabbit out of one door while Bette stalked queen-like out of another. Looking for a reason why these two people couldn't get along, a reporter must come to one inevitable conclusion. Bette Davis is a very tired woman. During eighteen years in the movies, she has made something like sixty pictures. Never in the history of acting has so much taxing work been done by an actress. The roles in those sixty pictures have been everything from floosies to queens. Each one required hard, sapping months of work, not only before the cameras, but at home, far into the night, week after week, year after year. Such effort must leave a mark on a personality. And during this work, she was treated like an empress. For eighteen years, Bette Davis, the famous movie star, had every whim granted by her studio and the people she surrounded herself with. No mere man could come along and change all that. No man could tell her to have the supper on the table by six o'clock or she'd get a shellacking. No matter who had the most pockets, Bette Davis, by instinct, wore the pants. pursuits of bette . . . In her early life Bette was pampered. Oh, there were a few poor days, but she was educated in private schools, granted irregular concessions in the way of education and the choice of a career. At one time, when she decided to be a dramatic dancer instead of an actress, she left school for a year and went to New York to study under the tutelage of an East Indian authority. The death of the tutor halted that phase, but it wasn't until then that Bette went home. Her preparation for marriage was flimsy. Her mother, suspecting that some day her child might have to settle down in a flat like other people, forced her to spend a year at home studying shopping, cooking, sewing and other chores. That was her preparation. At a fairly mature age, Bette married Harmon O. Nelson, her childhood sweetheart. The marriage lasted six years, during which time all sorts of wild tales about tantrums and temper filtered out of their home. They divorced rather reluctantly, it seemed, as though they both regretted the decision. But later Harmon was said to have muttered to pals about being married to a movie star instead of a woman. It can not be denied, though, by anyone who knew Bette Davis then, that she carried a fair torch for some time. Two years later, however, she married a businessman named Arthur Farnsworth. It was short-lived and, as reported in the gossip columns of 1940, Mr. Farnsworth passed away suddenly, halting divorce arrangements that were in the making. There is excuse and explanation in the background of Bette Davis for her current adventure. But this doesn't make it easier for Mr. Sherry. A man does not look at the teeth and the psyche of a prospective bride. Mr. Sherry no doubt anticipated a full life of love and companionship with a vibrant, healthy woman when he married Bette. He was unwise to our ways, unaware of the drain picture-making has on an actress when she is working. However, shortly after he was married, he must have been cognizant of the fact that he was married to a girl who might throw a skillet at him. In the opening paragraph of a national magazine story telling the Sherrys' plans for bringing up their daughter, he was quoted as saying that the child, pictured holding a rock in her hand, was just like her mother— and might throw it at him. That quote may have been an accident, but it doesn't look like one now. Any amateur, student of human nature, analyzing the obvious things, must see in Bette Davis' off-screen face the evidences of her long reign as Empress of Burbank. Her mouth, drawn full on the screen, is tight and narrow. The upper lip is short and determined. Her eyes, without false lashes and heavy mascara, are wide and cold and queenly. They wear an expression of brittle insistence, as though to say, "We'll have no more of that nonsense!" Her manner is nervous. And she is as likely as not to raise her hands in a sweep and expect to find a cigarette in her fingers, her wish anticipated. This is okay around a movie set, but hardly the thing in a man's own home. If Mr. Sherry had been the brute he has insisted he was, Miss Davis would certainly have had a number of broken fingers by this time. Another suspected contributing factor to the Sherry debacle is that business of the two homes. Lots of people have two homes. Maybe one's big and the other's a shack at the beach or in the mountains. But the Sherry homes were close together, both very elegant and both served the same purpose. From the actions of the two of them when they parted, it can quite honestly be deduced that Sherry was not quite sure where he lived. As a matter of fact, he thought Bette was in bed in the Toluca house when somebody called him up at the Laguna house and told him he was the closest thing to a bachelor he'd been for five years. "I was shocked!" he said. Three pertinent questions now present themselves. What truly happened the day Sherry tried to sack RKO single-handed? Is he going to fight the divorce? Is he going to ask for a property settlement? The first question may never be answered. The last two are still hidden in Mr. Sherry's heart. They seem pertinent because Miss Davis hired an attorney named Jerry Geisler as her counsel. Jerry Geisler is California's most expensive lawyer. People don't pay the kind of fees Jerry Geisler gets unless they are in real trouble. It must be deduced, then, that Sherry plans to fight the action. Even that is not enough for Geisler. It must be, then, that Mr. Sherry is going to want to count all the money and divvy it up. This is pure speculation, but the facts seem to indicate that it is true. Well, you've got the story. Take your pick. Is William Grant Sherry bloodthirsty or benign? Is Bette Davis Sherry a good, abused wife or a neurotic, overworked woman who can't find happiness because she is too tired? One guess is as good as another. One thing, though, if Bette Davis were superstitious she might have thought twice before going to work at RKO in that last picture. You see, it's called The Story of a Divorce. The End Paid Notice \Has YOUR MAN: I CHANGED : \toward you? see PAGE 69J