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Can Dale Robertson Save His Marriage ?
BY
GEORGE ARMSTRONG
While the gossips speculate wildly. Dale and Jackie are quietly trying to ignore the rumors and work out a reconciliation that will lead to a truly happy ending
• Can the Dale Robertsons still patch up their marriage?
All Hollywood has been pondering this question — and wishing them well — since news of their reconciliation late last fall first fell upon eager, friendly ears.
Shock had been the imiversal reaction when, on that gloomy Sunday last October twelfth. Dale threw a few personal belongings into a satchel and closed the door on his San Fernando Valley bungalow. The bungalow had been home for him and his bride, the former Jacqueline Wilson, since their marriage only a year and five months before.
During their brief parting at that time, both Jackie and Dale secluded themselves in the homes of friends and ducked the persistent bloodhoimds of the press, while they “thought things out.”
At that time. Dale said: “I think the trouble will blow over. But I think right now it is better for us to be separated for a while.”
And Jackie, talking off the record, indicated that she stiU loved her big, Oklahoma-salted “wild colt” of a husband. But she implied that she was not satisfied with love or a marriage that is a one-way street.
So they separated, and they “thought things out.” And they concluded, evidently, that they would try hard to turn that thoroughfare of marriage into a broad avenue that runs both ways.
While the Robertsons’ real friends held their counsel during that turbulent period, the gossips were avidly (and acidly) guessing at the cause of the rift. The hints were broad and the rumors numerous and varied. “Sensational developments,” had been the whisper, “can be expected as the real inside story of the quarrel comes to light.”
The rumor most widely circulated was that D^le was infatuated with another woman. The Miss X of these stories — or Mrs. X, rather' — was said to be a blonde charmer who was herself a recent bride.
Both Dale and Jackie refused adamantly to tal k about this much-discussed version of their differences during that short and unhappy separation. And now (Continued on page 74)