Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

shave lady? don't do it! Cream hair away the beautiful way... with new baby-pink, sweet-smelling Xeet — you'll never have a trace nasty razor stubble! Always to neaten underarms, even-time to smo legs to new smoother beauty, and next time for that faint downy fuzz on the face, why not consider Neet; Goes down deep where no razor can reach to cream hair awav the beautiful wav. & furrier, so Harry went to see him and told him he wanted to knock Debbie's eyes out with something lavish. "A stole?" suggested Abe Lipsey. liNo, something more unusual and original.'' said Harry. '•Something impish and different for a girl who's different.'" Together they figured out something that would surely amuse and impress Debbie— dozens of red roses, each stem wrapped in lustrous, dark rnink. Chuckling to himself at the thought of the surprise in store for Debbie, Harryordered the lavish gift. Debbie was delighted and showed her mink-trimmed roses to everyone at Paramount. When Debbie went to Palm Springs for a rest, Harry followed. He has a beautiful modern home in Palm Springs, as well as bis S200.000 estate in Beverly Hills. During her week in Palm Springs. Debbie had to go to Las Vegas to appear at a benefit which Shirley MacLaine had arranged for the hurricane victims of Japan. Debbie didn't want to disappoint Shirley, but she realized she had to be there that very night. She told Harry her problem, and he chartered a plane and pilot, and flew to Vegas with her. After Debbie's performance, Harry tried to charter another plane for Debbie, but couldn't get one. So instead, he rented a limousine and chauffeur and drove back with her. She has begun to lean on him and his generosity. But earlier in their friendship his generosity had boomer anged. Debbie had to face the fact that Harry was in love with her, and that he was hoping to win her love. She didn't want to lose her heart again: she was all wrapped up in her accelerated career, in her new freedom. She felt she could not return Harry's love. One night she told him that they must not see each other so much. She began to date Bob Neal more frequently — feeling sure that happy-go-lucky Bob, whom she'd known for years, would not become as serious as Harry KarL She took a trip to New York and went night-clubbing with Walter Troutman, a millionaire realtor. Harry was terribly lonely. He missed the gay, happy companionship of Debbie. Before he'd become so deeply interested in Debbie, he had courted Joan Cohn, the beautiful widow of Harry Cohn. the late head of Columbia Pictures. In her way7, Joan is as big a catch as Harry. Beautiful, chic, she'd been left millions by Harry Cohn's death — but she was lonely and suspicious. She was afraid that w-hen a man showed interest in her. he was really interested in her money. But when Harry started to shower attention on her, she was not apprehensive. She knew that he had millions of his own in the business which he headed after his father's death, and that through his business alertness. Harry made this chain of shoe stores even more successful. Joan and Harry became engaged: then their engagement was mysteriously broken. To this day, no one knows wrhy. But Joan's friends think that the day he discovered Debbie was the day he lost interest in Joan. When Debbie told Harry that she could never become seriously interested in him. he went back to Joan. Joan Cohn had not found anyone she seriously cared for. In a moment of mutual loneliness Joan and Harry decided to marry. Ten days later they faced the heartbreaking fact that they were not in love and never had been — that Harry had married her on the rebound. He made up his mind to face the ridicule of the world if he had to, in order to break up the marriage that was meaningless. When he tried to date Debbie, she told him, "I won't date a married man." It was only when Joan Cohn went to the divorce court — and was given S100.000 by Harry Karl for their ten-day marriage that Harry and Debbie started seeing each other again. When Harry Karl pursues a woman, she really knows she's pursued. Since his interlocutory divorce from Joan. Harry has been even more attentive to Debbie. A friend of Harry's, seeing how overboard he's gone for Debbie, asked him. '"Harry, you've gone with the most beautiful women out here. What do you see in Debbie?" Harry replied, "She's the most wonderful girl I've ever known. I've never had so much fun with anyone." One of Debbie's closest friends told me. "I don't think Debbie is in love with Harry, but she may not be looking only for love now. She once married for love — and got badly hurt. She figures now, 'In every marriage one person is more deeply in love than the other. I loved Eddie more than he loved me. Mightn't it work out better if I married a man who was more in love than I?' She respects Harry, and that may be enough." There are still remnants of the puritanical girl in Debbie's personality7. The gifts she has accepted from Harry are hardly tokens. Could a girl of Debbie's makeup accept such gifts — chinchilla, minks and S40.000 emeralds — from a man she has no intention of marrying? Some in Hollywood feel that the difference in their ages is a great barrier. "Actually. Harry is 47 years old — although he may look older," says a friend. "That's not too great a disparity for Debbie, who's about 30 no%v. (And Debbie does not feel that this is necessarily a handicap to a happy marriage. Eddie was about her own age, and that didn't work out. Debbie feels that perhaps a more mellow man — one whose mind and heart have been deepened by suffering — may be better for her than some good-looking, conceited young actor. "In spite of the fact that Harry's a grandpa — his daughter by his first marriage has a baby son — Harry is young in spirit," this friend went on. "And he supplies a vital need in Debbie's life — the feeling that she has a man around who is mature enough to advise her when she needs advice. I know the kind of girl Debbie is, and the kind of mother she is. She would never give her children a stepfather whom she felt would be too young to take the responsibility seriously." Another friend of Debbie's thinks that Debbie may find Harry's three marriages and divorces a distinct handicap. "One marriage failure. Debbie feels, might be the woman's fault," explained this friend. But it is hard for Debbie to believe that if a man has failed at marriage three times, each time it was the woman's fault. Harry was married the first time when he was in his twenties, to a non-professional. They have a daughter, Judy, who is nowmarried. "Although Debbie is very sympathetic, she doesn't want to be a two-time loser in the marriage game. And she knows very well that the chances of a happy marriage are less with a man who has had three divorces. She's got that thought in her little noggin, too." Between now and the day Harry gets his final decree of divorce. Debbie will have to face these problems and think about them. Debbie has seven months in which to make up her mind. END Debbie can be seen now in The Gazebo. MGM: soon in The Pleasure of His Company and The Rat Race, both Paramount.