Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR DECEMBER, 1936 10' THREE STORIES YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS IN JANUARY PHOTOPLAY: MADAME SYLVIA'S DIET FOR GLAMOR THE REGENERATION OF LEE TRACY ULTRA VIOLENT MARTHA RAYE And, of course, all the popular departments — picturesviews — fashion hints. On all newsstands December 1 0th -re "Then, quite suddenly, John learned that his leave in this country had run out, the quota was filled and he had to go away. We said good-bye. "I remember I told myself that that was the end. He would be gone a long time and he would forget. I would forget, too. It was always like that. When he wrote me from the boat I tore his letter into bits. It's really remarkable, isn't it, how dramatic youth can be! " But I know now that it was exactly the thing to do. There is nothing worse than the death a romance always dies, when you try too desperately to keep it alive on paper. No, it was much better as it was. He went his way, I went mine; no paper and pen ties. And when he came back, our friendship went on again, just as though it had never stopped, just as it had been before. " It was very dramatic, too. I didn't even know he was back. It was two years later. I was out dancing one evening when somebody asked my partner if he might cut in, and it was John." IN a scenario, certainly, that would be the 'end of the story. But the course of real love is seldom so smooth as it is in the movies. When they finally came to the realization that they wanted to marry, the first step was to have John meet Maureen's family; the second to have John's first marriage annulled so they might be married in the Catholic Church. The first took almost a year to accomplish. The second was a longer story. Maureen was working at Metro in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" at the time. When it finished she hoped to meet John in Dublin and have her family approve the marriage. But there was the little matter of Maureen's next picture, "David Copperfield," to threaten them. The studio had told her that she could only have three weeks between the two pictures, which meant having a little less than a week at home. But still Maureen was determined to go. In the meantime, John, also under contract to the same studio, had been sent to Canada with a camera crew to find an English boy for the title role of David. She flew to Vancouver, the last day of the Barretts shooting, and wired him frantically to meet her. He wired back that he would meet her in Montreal. Just a small matter of several thousand miles. Maureen tried to get a plane, but found that she would have to come back to the States first unless she wanted to go by train. Her one fear now was that the studio might need her for retakes, and recall her. She changed her name, using her mother's maiden name of Mary Frazer, and boarded the boat for Seattle. A small ferry boat, incognito, no clues, and still they found her! Maureen's heart rolled with the waves as she answered the phone. It was as she had expected. She was ordered back. That night she called Irving Thalberg at his beach house. She begged him . . . tried to explain how much it meant to her. He promised he would see what he could do about it; call him back tomorrow. It was a fidgety, frantic night. But at five o'clock the next day she had his permission to hurry on. A week in Dublin, with John and the family, and all of them adoring him just as she did. It was worth it. Worth the strain, and the rush, and the expense. Now all that remained was for John to get his annullment. It has often been printed that because of John Farrow's first marriage, he had to get a special dispensation from the Pope to marry Maureen. This is not the case. John was born and baptized in the Catholic Church, but married out of it, so his marriage had no being at all in the eyes of the Church. It was an annullment which had to be secured and this took two long years. It also involved a search for certain vital papers which were found, at last, in an old church in Australia near where John had once lived. So finally, they came to the end of a long courtship, to be united in a nuptial high mass, in Saint Monica's church, in Santa Monica. The wedding, too, was all that every girl dreams of. A little flower girl and a ring bearer, to head the procession, and hundreds of famous guests to bow and nod and whisper "how beautiful the bride looks!" Organ music, a young tenor singing Ave Maria. Then, coming out afterward and having photographers snap pictures of the new Mr. and Mrs. for the papers. Reading about it afterward: "The bride wore a Queen Mary of Scotland style gown of white slipper satin with Irish lace inserts, and ornamented by rows of baby buttons down the front. Her headdress was a Juliet cap of Irish lace with a full-length veil. She carried a bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley. A double ring ceremony followed the mass, with plain yellow-gold bands used by both bride and groom. The happy couple were guests of Loretta Young at a wedding breakfast in her Bel Air home." THE happy couple . . . bride and groom ... plain gold-band wedding rings . . . Maureen had pictured all these things for so long! But in coming to the end of that long courtship, they also came to the beginning of an even longer marriage. A marriage that is destined for always, a marriage which is irrevocable because of the Church in which it was made. "It's rather wonderful to think of that," Maureen said softly. "Through everything — u'<"> 1 and bad times, joy and unhappiness, it will go on. Hollywood can't touch it, nor fame, nor careers. "That's what made it so well worth waiting for!" Avoid • • » and keep lips lovable Lips must be smooth and soft to tempt romance. Rough lips look old. Unattractive. 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