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Why the Perfect Wife's Marriage Failed (Continued jrom page 53) it. Certainly she would never have told what one of her friends did. Her friend explained, "If Arthur wants Myrna to eat and drink, she'll eat and drink. If those are some of the things that make him happy and they get in the way of her career, then it's too bad for the career. Myrna is a wife, first and foremost, and an actress long afterwards." All Myrna's friends knew, too, how her interest in Arthur's productions quite outweighed her interest in her own. They knew, for example, how she carelessly let herself be manoeuvered, because of studio politics, out of the leading feminine role in "Boom Town" and into the very much less important "Third Finger, Left Hand." If she'd been more aggressive about her own interests, she could undoubtedly have prevented that, but all that time she was fiercely studying every ad in every publication that came out, not looking for clothes or bargains that she could buy for herself, but looking instead at the pretty girl models who posed in them. This was because she was aware of Arthur's hunt for an unknown girl to go into one of his productions. THOSE were some of the things Myrna Loy could have told. But she had never told, and probably she never will tell, what it must have meant to her in terms of tears and sleeplessness, when she came to the realization that her romance was fading. Perhaps Myrna will never tell any of those things because it looks as though even up until three months ago she would not admit the death of her marriage, even to herself. Three months ago, the whispers first started flying in Hollywood. Three months ago, the whispers first began concerning Arthur's interest in still another actress. There were whispers and no more and there was no confirming the truth of them. It is highly possible that they were entirely compounded of imagination and fabrication; but there they were. A man as important, attractive and desirable as Arthur is always subject to such gossip. Arthur was home ill when the whispers first began and all Hollywood knew how faithfully Myrna nursed him through that sickness. After he recovered, Myrna herself fell sick, badly enough for her doctor to insist upon hospitalization. It was "merely flu" — but any victim of that sly disease knows how weak and wretched it can leave you. It is at a time like that that a wife needs a husband around to protect and comfort i her, but it was right after returning home from the hospital bout that Myrna ; finally confirmed those rumors. Yes, she said, there would be a divorce. 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