Motion Picture (Aug 1931-Jan 1932)

How It Feels To Play The Other Woman (Continued from page 66) very few women, indeed, who have entered the life of another couple and deliberately planned from the beginning to wreck their home. It evolves naturally, so simply, that it is almost without the knowledge of the three involved. There is a slang phrase that fits the domestic triangle beautifully: 'It is just one of those things. ' The Wife Is More Dangerous "T)UT when the knowledge does come — f_) then it is the wife who is in danger of slipping into the Other Woman role. That may sound funny — but the wife who is convinced her husband is really in love with another woman, and that she is not just a passing fancy in his life — if that wife does not grant him his freedom, then she assumes the cloak of the dangerous woman. I believe that more wives than Other Women have spoken that famous line of mine in real-life: 'So? You think you will get rid of me? I'll show you!' And because they can legally do it they hold on, desperately, to the remnants of a love that has grown shabby between them. Such wives are clinging only to a man's name, his protection and his possessions. They automatically become the Other Woman, standing between the man and the woman he really loves." She shrugged. " In my own case I did not relish that r61e. When my marriage went on the rocks I did not cling to the sinking ship. "After all, a wrecked marriage does not mean a wrecked life to a woman in these modern days. Now that I look back on my divorce I find I have not the slightest animosity. I wish them well. I hope they find a deep, permanent happiness. I didn't arrive at that philosophy overnight. Be tween me and that first 'hurt' are a couple of years of good hard work — and change of scenery." The scene changed when she shifted her professional activities from Broadway to Hollywood. Here For Adventure "T WAS glad to get away from the East. _L When I boarded the train to come to Hollywood, I felt like an adventurer starting a new life. And, believe me, it really was an adventure. There was no contract in my purse, or even a verbal agreement with my manager that I would find work on the Coast. But I had cut all the old ties and I was in the frame of mind to take a chance on anything. Strangely enough, the first role offered me was that of a home wrecker in Cecil De Mille's 'Madame Satan.' Unfortunately, my sense of humor had not then come to my rescue. I turned it down — and lost out on a contract with M-G-M by my independence. "I feel I've been very lucky — walking into a contract with Paramount so soon. It happened by my making a test for them — a very ga-ga and innocent-little-girlish test. I out-Brianed Mary Brian on that strip of film. The first director to see it was Edward Sutherland. He sat there looking at all my ingenue screen tricks, suddenly slapped his hands together and said: 'That's the girl — that's the girl I want for the Other Woman in "The Gang Buster.'" "A studio casting official was sitting beside him. He protested: 'But that girl's an ingenue.' "'So are Other Women,' said Mr. Sutherland." Wynne laughed: "Who knows? Maybe he's right." News And Gossip Of The Studios (Continued from page qq) Now they are frequently seen together. The night young Doug opened in his stage play "A Man in Possession," Marlene and Josef von Sternberg were in Joan's dinner and theater party. SKIPPY-JACKIE COOPER, Wallace Beery and Marie Dressier have struck up a great friendship and lunch together almost every day they spend at the studio. We even saw Greta Garbo turn an interested eye in the wake of the dashing Mr. Cooper as he, Wally and Marie crossed the lot the other day. Greta is said to like children very much. It would be pretty sad, though, if she came between Skippy and Marie. MARILYN MILLER likes to give herself presents. Whenever Marilyn is blue, or ill, or even particularly elated over something she is in the habit of "treating" herself to something nice. She says it changes her entire mental viewpoint. Just recently Marilyn underwent an operation for appendicitis. The day after she came out of the hospital, she bought herself a new Rolls-Royce! BROTHER and Sister — how the pajama craze has hit Hollywood! Pajamas for every type and occasion ... of every material and color. Lola Lane wears a pair of tailored navyblue pajamas on the street. The jacket, which looks like the jacket of a suit, is trimmed in large white buttons in double breasted effect. The legs are so wide that at first t'hey give the impresion of a very long skirt. Mrs. Monte Blue wears "sports pajamas" made after the lines of a sports dress in green-and-white plaid for Sunday afternoon "at homes." Jean Harlow has the most beautiful pair for evening wear. These are formal pajamas of shell-pink lace, with abundant ruffles on the legs that completely disguise the "pajama" idea — giving the effect of a circular skirt. The blouse is very decollete — but can be more, er, draped with a little matching jacket. EVERY time Helen Twelvetrees has a vacation between pictures, she and her new husband, Frank Woody, fly over to Reno. "I certainly feel out of place," laughed Helen, "as the only woman in Reno with her own husband." THAT hot-house-flower of the screen, Constance Bennett, has turned .very athletic. Even in this hot weather Connie is taking two tennis lessons daily. ONE of the nicest things in Hollywood is the deep friendship that exists between Natalie Moorhead and her step-son, Alan Crosland, Jr. The boy, who is in military school, is often seen lunching and shopping with the girl he calls "Nat." 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