Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

IOO Photoplay Magazine for October, 1933 NEW y0ll 'ooct TY HEN you visit New York enjoy the comforts of an ideal home and still be in the heart of the Motion Picture Art Centre. * Parlor Bedroom and Bath $coo per day FOR ^— ONE OR TWO $125.00 per month. Less than the cost of most single rooms. 3 room suites in proportion. Largest single room in New York $3.50 per day. All rooms equipped with combination tub and shower . . . running ice water. * Swimming Pool, Gymnasium Solariums free to guests. Write for details. Telegraph reserva tions (Collect) ENJOY NEW YORK'S COCOANUT GROVE ROOF 56th St. at 7th Ave. New York City "I think I would call our love — Junior's and mine — the Healthy Love. The Counter-balancing Love. Most of all, the Healthy Love. It is not the love of two people who are alike. It is the love of two people who are diametrically different. "T BELIEVE that like marrying like is as -■•great a fallacy as love at first sight. Neither one of these pretty notions works. Our love is the love that gives and takes. It is the perfect see-saw love. "When Junior is up I am down, and when Junior is down I am up, and so neither one of us is either too far down or too fantastically far up — but balanced. "There are all the elements. I write Junior ardent little notes such as I once wrote to Ralph Pop. There is the element of Emotional Love. There is also the counter-balancing element of the Companionship Love. He fits enough of my Love Ideal so that he never lets me down. If he has feet of clay they are winged feet, too. "The Lovc-on-the-Rebound element is there too, because, of course, I have rebounded from all lliese others. "And there is enough of the maternal quality for me to want to cheer Junior when he is despondent, help him when he is tired, amuse him when he is bored. "There is only one 'accident' that can happen to this Healthy Love and that is, if one person outgrows the other. That is why I believe in divorce because out-growing does happen sometimes." "D UT even this seventh kind of love did not ■'-'prevent the break between Carole and Bill. At this time she is seeking a divorce in Reno. There, then, must be an eighth kind of love. What is it? ?What's Wrecking Hollywood Marriage? " CONTINUED PROM PAGE 31 "The average male is an easy victim to any designing female. His vanity is so great that he can be easily blinded to the fact that he is being hooked. "Then the problem of the 'other woman' enters into the actor's home. "There are three paths open to the wife: "She can regard it as ground for an open break. "She can conceal her knowledge and ignore it. "Or the situation can be discussed frankly and an intelligent decision attempted. "This problem places a heavy strain on marriage, and is one of the most frequently encountered situations in Hollywood. No invariable rule is applicable, but there is this to be said: "Since possession is nine points of the law, the wife has the advantage. If it is a temporary infatuation from which she thinks her husband will recover, and she earnestly desires to preserve her home, she can ignore the whole business. "In Hollywood, that is difficult, with every gossip columnist pointing it out to her. This is where the civilian wife has the advantage. She can pretend ignorance much more convincingly. "TF the average wife would make the same ■'•attempt to hold her husband that the other woman makes to vamp him, the divorce courts could go begging! " I am amazed daily at the number of women who think their work is over when they have snared their man. Wives in Hollywood as well as all wives should realize that marriage is a competitive business — to a greater degree than any other business. "No marriage is worth having that is not worth keeping." "V\ 7E then asked Dr. Popenoe about the ever»» present Hollywood problem of marriage versus career. He answered that few women had the energy and vitality to handle two fulltime jobs. They put the most in the job that presents the greatest competition — so one or the other is bound to be slighted — and it is too often the home. He added that statistics had proved a woman's career can be conducted successfully along with her home — if she does not make more money and have greater success than her husband. It takes an almost superhuman male to forgive that damage to his ego, according to Dr. Popenoe. • A line which is very pertinent, we thought, is Dr. Popenoe's "all but the most intelligent and astute young females sutler with a chronic inability to realize wdien they are well off! They too often feel that any change would be for the better, when as a matter of fact, one man is very like another. So much is up to the woman to make him a good husband. An actress with a career hasn't the time to concentrate on it. "Marriage is the most free relationship in the world. There are no rules. We make our own. "It is only when the two people concerned take unfair advantage of that freedom that the structure collapsi s!" If One Cagney's Good, Two Should Be Better [ CONTINUED FROM l'AGE 75 ] wading right into him. Thought T had let him off too easy. He was only four, bill he sure put up a swell battle." Bill, however, can match memories of boyish admiration. "Jimmy used to be the best catcher on the neighborhood baseball team — so I lived for the day when I could Ika good catcher, too. After each game, Jim always treated to sodas. That ; real treat in those days, and Jim had to work like a horse to get the dough. But he never lei us down. He was the boss of the neighborhood." So it was quite natural, once Jimmy had landed in Hollywood, that he should want to see brother Bill there, too. Not that Bill needed a job. Jimmy will hasten to set you right on that: "The kid was good. He had a bankroll when he was twenty one. Swell business head. Handle.! the Strand Theater publicity and other accounts, and liked it. "He stuck with advertising even when the business was at its lowest ebb — and he was making money. Not important dough, but on."