Modern Screen (Dec 1933 - Oct 1934)

Modern Screen am young. I have my work. A good role in 'Sadie McKee,' with Joan Crawford. I I have my baby. I have my home, people are kind to me, seem to like me. I have my mother and father again, after all these vears. I have been able to buy them a home. I had the great joy of taking some of my first salary checks and furnishing it for them. I was able to overhear my father saying, 'Thank God for Esther!' I am grown up. I am free !" In that sunny, dainty house in Westwood Village, live two women and a beloved little girl. One of the women is Esther, the mother. The other woman is Blanche, the nurse. For George Webb's^ ex-zvife, Blanche, is nurse to Esther's little girl. In all the catalogue of amazing human relationships, I know of none more amazing than this. Esther doesn't call her solution God. She doesn't give it any sectarian name. She just kind of thinks that if you love people very much they will love you back and then the pieces of the puzzle will all fit together and you won't get hurt even ii you are hurt ... It is something like this . . . Irene Dunne Leads a Double Life (Continued from page 27) effervescent emotions — which are claimed for southern women. FLIRTING was, and is one of her most adroit accomplishments. "I even flirt with the butcher and get the best cuts of meats because I do," she once told me. But asked that I print that her mother did it. Her first professional "break" came because she flirted with a grey-haired judge who was selecting the best singer from three hundred contestants. She was used -to being the belle of dinner parties because she had that "something" which attracts men, knew she had it and was not afraid to use it. As for temper. Whew ! It's the kind that wraps a golf stick around the nearest tree and cuts the air with words that would shock even the publicity men who had ordered her to be a perfect lady. She bought a book on temper. A tiny one she could carry everywhere with her. If you have been often on an Irene Dunne set, you've seen her slip away, squeeze into a quiet corner, pull out a book and commence to read. The habit resulted in the publicity that she is a studious and deep reader. But if you have succeeded in snatching the book from her, you've found it filled with instructions on how to hold your temper. It's not easy to be a goody-goody girl before people and yet find a way to let the devil out of you when no one is looking. It takes finesse and trickery and brains and will-power and a great capacity for fibbing convincingly. I shall not forget the time I was lunching with Irene at her high-ceilinged home in Beverly Hills. The butler brought in a huge florist's box. 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