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Stay Retired?
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John Gilbert 'upper right) thought they would make him retire. Vilm* Banky 'top^ thought the would ttay ■t home. Rod L« Rocque (above' it not yet in India
"When I have saved enough money to travel on for the rest of my davs," said Bill Powell, adding honestly, " but how will I know when I have enough? The more money I get, the bigger my ideas become. Can it be that this is an endless chain.'"
"When I am thirty-two or thirty-four," insisted Richard Dix, some years ago. "No use in thinking I can keep on after that." "Cimarron" is now in the making, with Rich as the lusty Yancry Cravat.
They never do.
They cant.
Yes-Men and Women
EVERTHELESS, just ask them. Their answer is always
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Yes, YES, YES. They sigh for solitude, for privacy, tor travel. For a chance to Improve Their Minds. For kiddies. For the opportunity to Read a Book by their own hearthstone, the cat dozing at tfieir slippered feet. They crave to polish the family silver, to indulge their fevered, fretted souls m all the little babbittries dear to the hearts of private Misters and Missuses.
Say they.
I doubt them.
Their actions belie their words.
I believe thev would all chant in unison the words of Elizabeth Barrett Brownmg: "A quiet life, which was not life at all."
I can recall, to date and of late date, only one famous movie-ite who has actually retired of her own volition, and has stayed retired lone enough to make her Exhibit A. That one is Dorothy Dalton Hammerstem, who cultivates and manages a largish farm on Long Island, supervises the cook, has a baby, does all the things a proper Little Woman does do, save play bridge and discuss her neighbors' grievances.
Dorothy is married to a famous theatrical producer with, at the time, his fingers in the picture pie. She could "come back" if she really wanted to. She doesn't want to. She recently returned to Hollywood with the prospect of making a picture. The film, for {Continued on page 86)
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