Movie Classic (Sep-Dec 1931)

says Dorothy Dwan, the beauty who played leads for Ken Maynard and Tom Mix and had executives wondering how far she'd go. "Pictures offered a good chance to a girl who had no business training, and I took it." 1 hen she met Paul N. Boggs, Jr., married him and promptly set about making the one thing she wanted — a real home. "The screen? No, thank you," says Dorothy, "marriage means a home, and a home means everything." In this particular home the architect has provided a nursery. "Joby" Ralston looked the picture situation fairly in the face, balanced a photo of her husband, Dick Arlen, against proposals for two contracts, 'phoned that she didn't want to sign them, sighed and put all her screen ambitions away with her other souvenirs. Dick and her home tipped the scale against them. " No can do," she says, shaking her gay head. " Not and have a happy, comfortable home and a husband. One of us working is plenty and Dick can be it. I'm out, for keeps." Divorce Was The Cure REMEMBER little Ella Hall? She saw that marriage and pictures could not mix. So she divorced Emory Johnson, the director, because his picture work interfered with her home work, left the screen herself soon after and went into commercial life to take care of her babies. "Two in a family can't be picture folk and stay married, and sometimes one can't, either. So I'm in neither pictures nor marriage." And some of the others: Helene Costello married Lowell Sherman and looks at screen work as if it were something queer that had drifted in from the street. Viola Dana, hoyden madcap, who used to be the Spirit of Hollywood, finds a chap she's crazy about and is living happily ever after on a Colorado ranch. Pooh! This is the life! And her sister, Shirley Mason, has forsaken the studios for wifehood and motherhood. Marilyn Miller decided that "two might be married, but only one can do screen work." So Jack Pickford was gently dropped in the discard bin and has acquired another partner, and Marilyn shakes her head. She may, of course, be married again, but not while she's actively acting. And so it goes. As someone said not long ago: A man is entranced with a beauty of the stage or screen because she is bright and vivacious, marries her for the same reason, and then begins to try to change her into the likeness of his Southern grandmother. If he's professional himself, often their interests clash; or if the girl is wise, like Phyllis 1 laver, she makes up her mind at the beginning to be either one or the other — not both actress and wife. Yes, I know there's the classic example we all quote, but even after ten years the conclusion to that romance isn't written. Wait and see if Gossip is to be justified of her rumors. Did You Know That— Mae Clarkcis engaged to Henry Freulich, cameraman? Grace Moore, newly married to Vincente Parara, wealthy Spaniard, says she won't retire? Nancy Carroll, newly wed to Bolton Mallory, Editor of Life, doesn't say? Pola Negri signs her checks with a brush? ECOND oneymoon BEATRICE 1 J5EATJUCJ ™ FAIRFAX IM and Ada had been married ten years. They felt romance and glam J our fading. ' 'And then, Miss Fairfax,' writes Ada, 'I set my wits to work. I wanted Jim to think of me as his sweetheart, not just as busy housewife and mother. " 'What I did was to buy myself a second trousseau! Not expensive things, but lovely colorful frocks and lingerie that gave me a feeling of being charming and so feminine . " 'Jim almost at once sensed the change in me. And now we're having a second honeymoon that I am going to make last all our married days!' "Wise wife! How easy to keep honeymoon happiness all through marriage, if every wife would do two simple things: 1. Buy colorful, dainty frocks and lingerie. 2. Keep them color-fresh and charming always. "Don't believe you can't afford such 'frivolous' clothes. For with Lux, chat wonderful product you all know, they can be kept charming and new so long every woman can afford them. "Lux is especially made to preserve colors and the life of delicate fabrics. Their charm, tod, so that as long as you wear them, they lend their charm to you. "And in your home: Keep your home fresh and pretty, too, for this adds to your charm. Linens, colorful curtains, sofa cushions — always look lovely if you use Lux." Beatrice Fairfax Lingerie LUXed 12 times Duplicate lingerie washed l — satin and lace fibres times in ordinary "good" intact, the color charming soap — lace and satin worn, as new. Utterly exquisite! color jaded. Charm lost! If it's safe in water alone . . it's just as safe in LUX. 71