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Doris and Marty's two-year-old marriage
is a whopping big success . . . but how come? The experts say they're doing everything all wrong!
BY ALICE HOFFMAN
■ Song and story, from time immemorial, have persisted that "All the world loves a lover." The sight of a boy and girl strolling together hand in hand draws a smile of approval from almost everyone who sees them. People flip into uncontrollable joy when an engagement is announced and, even if the couple are strangers, most folks shake them by the hand and offer the heartiest of congratulations. At weddings the guests laugh and cry without shame. Love is the greatest thing in the world. Until the couple gets married.
A fellow is a "lucky boy" until he gets the girl — then he is "hooked." The little woman is referred to as "the' ball and chain." The poor dope is pictured in cartoons as a mouse, terrified of the lovely creature he married and a legitimate object of pity. His wife's sweet little mother, the doll who used to make him fudge and cook special things for him when he was invited to dinner, after the" ceremony becomes a "mother-in-law," a slander that requires no further elaboration.
It would seem pretty safe, then, to say that marriage is not nearly as popular an institution as love — and that a couple who have stuck it out for a couple of years deserve some sort of recognition, if not a medal.
Now that the second wedding anniversary of Doris Day and Marty Melcher is coming 'round the bend, it might be a good time to take stock of this pair and see if marriage has harmed them in any. way ... if it has improved them ... or (Continued on page 77)
No shop talk after business hours is a rule Doris and her managerhusband Marty insist on.