Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR DECEMBER, 1936 6! Is. IORMA is not leaving Hollywood. To all ' ^arguments she answers that it would be folly for her to run away — when she cannot run away from herself. And she has added: "Why should I run away from the memories of the happiest days of my life?" She is not even planning to leave the comfortable but unpretentious home her husband built with such glowing dreams of the happiness they would share in its walls — the home where she came as a bride, where she knew her greatest joy as a wife and a mother, and her greatest tragedy in widowhood. She plans to remain in this house by the ocean, in the very rooms she shared with Irving, surrounded by dozens of his pictures, because the devotion he poured so proudly into the sanctuary of their home has given it roots that can never be shaken. She has said, bravely : " I want my children to grow up here in the home their father planned for them." She feels it is impossible for little Irving and the beautiful baby, Katherine, to remain there and not be influenced by the presence of the man who left so much of himself behind. Each day Norma puts fresh flowers before his pictures. Each day she answers as tenderly and bravely as she can the children's hurt puzzlement over their father's "absence." AT the immediate moment her only thought is of her children. She deeply believes that only her personal supervision can in any way compensate for their great loss, particularly during the next years as their education looms on the horizon. Little Irving, in particular, will be ready for his first schooling next year and to Norma this seems a time frought with difficulties in the life of any child, especially a little boy whose very wealth and position has been responsible for the sheltered life he has led, with so few contacts with other children. She wants to be free of all other responsibilities so she may shoulder those first juvenile hurdles with him, and later, to face them with her small daughter. This is but a second important reason why she is turning away from all pleas that she resume her own career, either before or behind the camera. Just as acting would be intolerable to her in her present frame of mind and health, she also shakes her head without interest to the proposal of interesting herself in a new field, the production end of picture making. NIORMA has only one desire now — to carry ' ^on the dreams and ideals of Irving Thalberg. His enormous fortune left many responsibilities. There were great charities close to his heart that have become sacred duties to Norma. Until they are completed in the veryspirit of the way Thalberg willed them, Norma will have time for nothing else. The task of directing his millions into the channels he desired is her only work program for the future! For one thing, she knew better than anyone else how the persecution of his people in certain foreign countries, tore at Thalberg's sympathetic heart. More than two years ago he was responsible for bringing all his relatives away from foreign oppression and establishing them in homes and on farms in America. When he died, it was claimed that the Jews had lost their most ardent friend and greatest power. But Norma is taking up his banner where Irving was forced to drop it. One of the few regular visitors at her home, since Thalberg's passing, has been the beloved Rabbi Magnin, devoted family friend, the man who married them eight years ago, and the chief guide of the many charities supported by Irving's millions. Nor were they confined exclusively to one group, or one faith. There is not a local or national charity worthy of its name thai found an appeal to Irving Thalberg unanswered ! In these past weeks. Norma has tried so hard to leave no stone unturned, no desire of his unfulfilled. Three weeks after his funeral irose from a sick bed where she was ill with laryngitis to drive to the studio and insist that officials go on with plans for the Los Angeles premiere of "Romeo and Juliet." She begged they go ahead with the premiere, that it should not be called off in honor of Irving's memory. "I know how much he wanted this brilliant first night," she told them with conviction behind the emotion in her voice. " I know how deeply he wanted the people of his own profession to see the picture that was his greatest and proudest production. If you really want to honor Irving you will go on with the plans as he started them. That would have been his wish." A ND so the great of Hollywood came to pay ' ^tribute to a great producer and a great star and actress in what may be the last appearance she will ever make on the screen. For, now, the only future that Norma sees is to carry on alone. Perhaps sometime in the dim future, just as surely as she felt her career had come to an end with the potion scene in "Romeo and Juliet," she may come to know by the same source that Irving would want her to take up their work, continuing the inspiring career they built together. Only then can the screen hope to reclaim its gallant first lady of the drama! VPff-HEU HATE JHE ON SICHT^) * :\JT DARUMG I ;HOuGHT YOU 'AMTED TO EET JACUi HV YOU'VE :EM TALKING SOUT IT FOR =ARUY A YEAR I-K-KWOW -BUT I 1 DIDN'T HAVE ALU \ THESE OREADPUU I PIMPLES THEnOM, MUMS, IT'S JUST TOO MEAN TO HAVE IT HAPPEN! LIKE THl' £ <&/{ -AMD THE POOC CHILD * *&&~—J 'S JUST HEART BROKEN. tSxf SHE'S LOOKED FORwAQD r> I TO MEETING HEP FRIEND'S ) BROTHER FOR SO LOMG. YOU OUGHT TO GET HER SOME FLElSCHMAMM'S VEAST. THAT'S WHAT THE DOCTOR PRESCRIBED FOR JEAN. IT CLEARED HER SKIN UP WONOEBPOLLY DON'T 1ET ADOLESCENT VltAPLBS MAKE YOU HATE TO BE SEEN growth takes place. The entire system is disturbed. 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