Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

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►/^^^ ley had seven dates together — and then Jack Briggs proposed That was the beginning of a marriage so unusual that Hollywood will never see its like again IT WAS eleven o'clock in the evening when a car swung up before the entrance of the Union Station in Los Angeles. A young man got out and entered the station. He was back in a minute. "Train's late," he told the girl in the car, as he climbed in beside her. And so began Ginger Rogers's wait for Jackie Briggs, the twenty two year-old lad who was that night to become her husband. The bride-to-be was nervous. Several times she removed her brown glove to bite at a red polished nail. "How late is it now?" she asked over and over of Eddie Rubin, her friend of years, her buffer, her alter ego. emoloyed now as a talent scout at RKO. Nervously she flicked at the spray of white orchids, ordered by the groom, which were pinned to her brown suede bag. Occasionally she adjusted the tiny veil of her sabletipped hat or smoothed her trim brown wool suit. A porter whistling "Mr. Five By Five" strolled by, peered into the gloom of the waiting car and went whistling off. People strolling up and down restlessly waiting for that train and other trains noticed the car also. But none equalled in restj lessness the girl who waited in the car's gloom while the clock ticked : off a quarter, a half and finally an hour. Said one Hollywoodian of Ginger and Jack together: "I never saw anyone look so longingly at anyone in my life.'1 Above is picture proof BY SAUV JEFFERSON At ten minutes after twelve there was sudden excitement. "She's coming," someone called and a minute later the train was in and Rubin was guiding a tall lad in a Marine uniform to the car and the girl who waited. Over the bridge and into the quiet town of Pasadena the car rolled. It paused before the First Methodist Church, dark except for the faint glimmer of candlelight in a far window. They mounted the steps and opened the door. The minister advanced to meet them and in the solemn hush of that church at one o'clock in the morning Ginger Rogers and Jack Calvin Briggs were married with a double-ring ceremony. Not until the next day did Doctor Albert Edward Day, pastor of that church, know that "Virginia Katherine McMath, born in Independence, Missouri" whose eyes had filled with tears as he said, "until death doth you part" was Ginger Rogers of the films. The license had been taken out three days previously in the town of Santa Monica and, oddly enough, no one had recognized Ginger's real name. After the ceremony, the bride and groom, radiating happiness, drove through the early morning to the Players, Preston Sturges's restaurant out Beverly Hills way, where a few friends were gathered. Then on they went to the house of Jack's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Katz, where Ginger's mother, Mrs. Lela Rogers, waited. The wedding cake was cut and passed among the close little circle and then the bride and groom left for a three-day honeymoon at her hilltop home. Ginger and Jack Briggs met first on the evening of September 30th, 1942. Three o'clock that afternoon Ginger, completing her last scene for "Once Upon A Honeymoon" at the RKO studios, rushed home to dress and catch the five o'clock train for San Diego (Continued on page 70) APRIL, 1943