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The Bond Hollywood
Can '/ Break
By William F. French
How does it happen that what seemed to be the most precarious marriage of the entertainment world at the time it was consummated and the one which wiseacres predicted wouldn't last six months, has weathered eight years' sailing in Hollywood's matrimonial sea without going on the rocks ? And that, in spite of the fact that Madame Gossip and Dame Rumor have had it in dangerous waters a dozen times.
With a wide difference in temperament, training, religion and age to separate them what is it that holds Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson together? Surely there must be something more than mere marriage ties that binds them.
If you had been with this writer while he was lunching recently with Al Jolson you would have had occasion to gasp a little at that "something" — even if you could not name it. Because that "something" happens to be a quality difficult to analyze and catalogue for future reference. To understand it you must know Ruby and get a look under Al's skin. In other words, you must know a few soft facts about a hard guy.
But to get back to the day I'm telling you about. Al talked shop a few minutes, and then suddenly burst out on the subject that had him steamed up to boiling point. In fact he was boiling over with rage. Someone had just started another rumor to the effect that the Jolson-Keeler marriage was headed for the rocks — and Al had discovered who had started the ball rolling. That's what made him boil.
"I just phoned that fellow," growled Al, "and I warned him that if he made any more talk like that I was coming over and get him. And I wasn't fooling — I'd knock anybody for a loop who'd hurt my baby."
Don't think Al didn't mean business, and if you could have seen him at that minute you would have recognized at least one reason why the Jolson-Keeler romance endures — because, as this star frankly admits, it means more to him than anything else in life. And that is only one of several reasons.
If this union is unique in one respect, it is equally so in several others. It joins together two individuals as widely different as humans can be and this very difference welds them together.
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HOW and why? Well, we will give you one example of the contrasts between this twain that draw and bind — and then we will introduce you to each, as they really are.
Brushing aside the happy "front" — call it showmanship that combines with the blunt business methods that make up the personality of Al Jolson, let's have a look at the man hiding behind the title of the world's
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