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By HELEN BEATTY
THE individual who contributed to' a stunned world the statement that love is a funny thing, committed the prize misstatement of all time as far as Hollywood is concerned. Love is not a funny thing in Hollywood. Love is a serious, complicated series of maneuvers, complex as the festival rites of Borneo head-hunters, and just as clear in meaning to civilized onlookers.
But never under any circumstances is it funny. Hysterical, maybe — yes. Funny ? No.
Love in Hollywood is an intangible something that happens to people who behaved as everyone else, as far as emotions and social decorum were concerned, before they landed in Hollywood. But the minute the travelers swing down the mountain grades and behold the orange groves of California, something happens to them. They suspect the change immediately. They are almost certain of it when they get a load of the snow capped mountains behind the oranges (three dozen for a quarter). By the time they glimpse Catalina on a clear day, they don't even stop to think about it at all.
They're in it up to their ears. Hollywood love, I mean, not Catalina.
The thing that renders the Hollywood variety of the well known emotion so different from the species found elsewhere is, that in Hollywood things only begin where they leave off elsewhere.
If it sounds a trifle confusing, don't let it throw you. The truth is, it is confusing and to the breaking point half the time. In fact the natives who participate in the game of Hollywood love are often themselves confused to the point where they can't distinguish their wives from their fiancees or their husbands from their fiances.
For instance, now, the normal course of romantic procedure for a young man in Detroit, say, is to meet a young lady, fall in love, court her, propose and if lucky, marry. That, I say, is the usual order of events leading to Marriage in Detroit or even Pittsburgh. Or was last time I was there.
But things don't happen that way in Hollywood. Out here, before the gentleman ever begins his courting, he quite often gets married to someone else and then hops to his courting like a wild man. Roses by the arborfull are sent. No, no,
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JEEVES, JUST WHO DID I GET ENGAGED TO LAST NIGHT?"!
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