Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

Cue to any woman The girl who's in love with Sidney Luft: Lynn Bari of Fox's "Tampico" I ADMIT I'm in love with Sidney Luft and he admits he's in love with me — but that's as far as the story goes yet. You see, I won't be free to consider marriage until next November ... so our love story isn't finished at all! But if you want to hear an unfinished love story, here it is: I suppose it's not very original, but I always seem to identify what happens to me in life with songs. And the song I identify with meeting Sid for the first time goes something like this: "When you're at the bottom looking up at the top — There's no place to go but up! Can't go this way, can't go that way — Can't go sideway, can't go back way — There's no place to go but up!" The point is, I was at the bottom emotionally. I had just ended my marriage— and this always leaves a woman lost and unhappy, no matter how inevitable the separation is. So that was why my friends were trying to find someone who'd make me laugh again. They came up with a big assortment of laugh-makers, but most of them left me gloomier than ever — until the Bill Goodwins remembered they knew a crazy flyer named Sid Luft. Mrs. Goodwin phoned me about it the minute they thought of him. "Come to dinner tomorrow night, and we'll have him here," said she. Well, I came to dinner. But he didn't — not for two hours. We waited dinner all that time, while I sat tapping my feet (in specially bought new shoes) and built up a grudge against anyone who'd inconvenience three people as much as that. I had just decided to deliver a speech on this impossibly rude flyer and then go home — when the doorbell rang, then the door opened without waiting for a Goodwin to open it and in he came. The only way I can describe it is to say that when he entered that room it was suddenly full of gaiety and laughter. He had so much vitality that he didn't seem to walk in, he sprang in — six feet worth of magnetism and noist