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As intelligent as she is beautiful. Madge knows where she is going and what to do when she gets there. But what if she unexpectedly falls in love?
Why Madge Evans Has Never Married
She herself reveals the reasons— and they are good ones
By George Stevens
WHEN I said Hasta la vista to Madge Evans that afternoon, and drove up Sunset Boulevard to Hollywood, I missed two red signals and didn't even try to argue when the cop ticketed me for the last one.
I was too busy thinking. Because, during an hour's talk, I had learned more about the lovely Evans girl than I had ever
hoped to know. I had discovered what guiding cog made her machinery tick and what basic premise her life is built on — which is a lot to find out about anybody in sixty minutes.
We had been sitting there for some time, nibbling peanuts and watching the four dogs parade around the room — and finally I had said, on an impulse, "You know you're almost unique in Hollywood. You've been here four years and you haven't even married once, much less the usual three or four times."
"Quite an awful state of affairs, really," Madge laughed. Then, sobering, she thought about what I had said. "Well, there are reasons," she told me.
And during the next hour she searched her memory for those reasons. What finally evolved represents a combination of intelligence, environmental influence and downright courage; it offered me a newvantage-point from which to view the attitudes of one of my favorite actresses.
We grant immediately that a lot of Hollywood stars have pompously said, "Career before marriage for me! " — and people have drawn conclusions. Unfortunate ones.
But when Madge says, "I'm going to finish one job before I begin another," and then proceeds to explain logically and clearly exactly what she means, that leaves nothing to conclude. The answer is too complete.
"It's so difficult to tell you this without giving the worst impression," Madge said. "If I remark bluntly that I can't think of marriage until I've reached the top in my career — it sounds so hard-boiled and scheming. My work is the reason I haven't married and why I won't for some time. But there are so mam justifications for my decision.
"Understand this: I believe in early marriages for girls, before the_\ think about career or anything else.
" I've wanted very much to settle down and make my own family for the last live years.
"But besides that. I've got an
ideal about finishing what I start.
More than an ideal, it's basically
necessary to me to make a goo 1 job
out of any job I do. If I married
tomorrow, before I was satisfied I'd reached just as far as I
could go in my profession, then I'd be human enough to be
miserable. That would be disastrous.
"And I will not make a failure out of marriage!" So far as her career is concerned, she has made up her mind as to what she wants from it. She [ PLEASE turn to PAG] 1 14 1
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