Modern Screen (Dec 1934 - Nov 1935)

MODERN SCREEN Cantor s Recipe for Happiness (Continued from page 39) young ladies on earth try to yell me down, I'll go on believing it. The clever woman who has what she wants, and wants to keep it, urill go on letting her husband believe that he's smarter than she is. "Domination of husband over wife? Wife submerging personality to superior husband?" I suggested. "Put it in that way if you care to. But I'll say it my way !" Eddie was being forceful. And he can be. "Take Ida, for instance. I've known her since I was thirteen years old. She was the first person in the world who made me feel important. "I was a lonely little runt, brought up by an iron-willed grandmother on the East Side of New York. Both my parents died when I was two years old, and Grandma Esther so poor she didn't have time, at the end of a day's fighting the big, bad wolf, to waste in cuddling an unimportant shaver like me. Maybe she didn't think it was good for me. So about all I knew in those days were poverty, work, loneliness, and a big inferiority complex. "Then, when I met Ida, and she started right out making me feel I was a great guy, something happened to me. I began to believe that maybe I could amount to something in this world, y'know. "Maybe she was smart that way ; smart enough to know she was appealing to my vanity. But that didn't make any difference. She never let me know that she knew. If more women in Hollywood used a little of those tactics on their husbands, the divorce lawyers would have to look for another happy hunting ground." AS he spoke, I had a mental picture of a typical Cantor family dinner described to me by a good friend of that large and flourishing clan. A long table piled with good, home-cooked food. Eddie at the head, all bright and shiny, and contriving to look more like a college sophomore home for a vacation than the dignified man of family which he most certainly is. At the other end, Ida. Between them, about a dozen relatives from both sides of the family. And ranged like a regiment, proud Eddie's "five tests of true love" (that's what he calls the Cantor girls), Marjorie, Natalie, Edna, Marilyn, and Janet. But after one moment in that group, no one could possibly doubt who was head man. It was that fellow at the head of the table with the snappy black eyes. Ida sees to that. When Eddie starts to tell a story— and contrary to what one hears about comedians off duty, Eddie keeps his family amused with a great store of humorthere is hushed silence around the table. Ida sees to that. If any one is so indiscreet as to butt in, he is mercilessly rebuked by a stabbing glance from Ida. What's more, Ida doesn't care a tinker's dam if, time after time, she is mistaken for Eddie's older sister. Placidly, she goes on knitting, while the other Hollywood non-professional wives, spend endless hours with cosmeticians trying to be made as beautiful as the luscious "temptations" who surround their starring husbands in the studios. Nor does she eat out her heart over real or imaginary infidelities. She doesn't have to. Are You A Colds-Susceptible? Do You CATCH COLD Easily? At the first sneeze, or nasal irritation, quick! . . . A few drops of Vicks Va-tro-nol. This unique aid in preventing colds is especially designed for nose and throat where most colds start. Its timely use helps to avoid many colds— and to throw off colds in their early stages. Do Your Colds Hang On AND ON? Don't take chances with half-way measures. Massage throat and chest with Vicks VapoRub — standby in 26 million homes for relieving colds. Two generations have learned to depend on its famous direct double action— by stimulation and inhalation—to end a cold sooner. Follow Vicks Plan for Better Control of Colds These twin aids to fewer and shorter colds give you the basic medication of Vicks Plan for Better Control of Colds. Full details of this clinically tested Plan are in each Vicks package. O ME / HUMOR . . . FICTION . . . College campus stories from REAL LIFE. CARTOONS and caricatures by the world's best. If you have a nose for news, you can earn twenty-five dollars for every acceptable collegianecdote (real life story) you report. Get full details of this interesting opportunity in the December issue of the NEW COLLEGE HUMOR ON SALE NOVEMBER lOHi AT ALL NEWSSTANDS 99