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WHAT
FEARS
BY DORA ALBERT
THREE times Adrienne Ames has been married, and now Hollywood believes that her third marriage, the one to Bruce Cabot, for which she sacrificed wealth, position and security, is in danger of going on the rocks. The vultures are already waiting to pounce on that marriage and to shout triumphantly, "We told you it couldn't last!"
Well, what is the truth about this marriage? I don't want to hand you any line about moonlight and honeysuckle, how Adrienne is perfectly happy and Bruce is perfectly happy, and all the little bluebirds are singing. Only too often you've read that one, only to read later of a divorce in some home that you'd been told was ideally happy. So I want to tell you the simple, honest truth as I see it. If you are ever faced with the decision that Adrienne Ames had to make, of giving up everything for love, it may help you to know how her marriage is working out.
First, let me tell you this. Adrienne and Bruce Cabot are madly in love with each other and are making a terrific effort to keep their marriage from going on the rocks. But —
Against them they have arraigned not only Hollywood, which never sympathized with this romance, but themselves. For these two people are at war, not with each other, but with themselves. And until they have made peace with themselves, how can they find contentment in marriage ?
Before I met Adrienne, I thought all sorts of things. I thought that she was a hard-boiled materialist who had married Stephen Ames because she knew on which side her bread was buttered, and who had given him the air when real love came along. Now I know better. When Adrienne met Stephen, he wasn't a millionaire stock broker offering her ease and security. He was just starting in business, and he didn't have much faith in him
Do you remember the Bruce Cabot of about two years ago? Remember his cynical expression — his hard, bitter look? And now — a changed man! Adrienne did that.
Can Adrienne Ames and Bruce Cabot beat the marriage jinx?
self, nor did others have much faith in him. Married once before, he was practically starting all over again after his divorce.
Adrienne encouraged him, she restored his faith in himself and inspired him with the courage needed to make him one of the best brokers on Wall Street. And she did all these things because she loved him, not with the tempestuous love which she was later to feel for Bruce Cabot, but with a calmer, quieter love. She took it for granted that she would always remain married to Stephen. She had had one unhappy marriage when she was sixteen, one of those insane school girl elopements, and Stephen had adopted her daughter by that marriage.
If her love for Stephen died gradually during the four years she was married to him, she did not know it, for she was not given to any searching of her heart. She might never have known it had she not met Bruce.
TODAY she thinks that her love for Bruce Cabot was predestined.
In the ordinary course of events they wouldn't have met at all. Bruce was with RKO, and never loaned out to other studios. Adrienne ( Continued on page 85 )
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