Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1948)

[ollywcuJ Marriage Morals {ontinued from page 42) woman, married ;a leading man just established with a big ; dio, rests uneasy these days because her rsband has been given a dressing room of r own. It isn’t the girl stars on the lot I worry 3 3Ut,” she told me. “They’re too occupied 1 king after their own careers to be pdatory. It is the girls getting nowhere ^.o have no intention of letting a loving (ie like me stand in their way.” Vlways, observing a young Hollywood [ipie, I say a little prayer. Too few are [ ■mitted to continue as happily as I think t; Macdonald Careys will. vluch of the Careys’ happiness is due to ific, who has the good sense to look upon I' rising career as a business and who, iis far at least, has avoided becoming selft itered. Betty Carey is quite a person too. /■member of a Main Line Philadelphia t'liily, than which there is nothing more, I'Itty takes things in her stride. She Ibught it very funny when, upon her Elrent as a radio actress, her name disaptired from the Social Register. She gave her career, too, when Mac — looking dbr the Hollywood couples who were tryi ; to juggle two careers and a marriage — t':ided this was advisable. She did this, t i, at some financial sacrifice. Studios tocy bring up new stars without paying t;m any fortune. Also, appearances must 1 maintained in spite of the income taxes tit make big inroads upon actors’ incomes, hich reminds me of the gold cuff links fifty gave Mac the other day. One is en|iived “Class A I.” The other says “Champn Dish Washer.” IDEALLY think the Careys, continuing to libserve the Hollywood scene cannily, will c all right. They remind me somewhat c the Ray Millands. A few years ago, f Mai to be casual about Ray’s admirers £ it would have been for any other (man. However, when Ray sought a reconciliation, Mai did not return 1 overtures with recriminations. She saw t it, when he came home, that their life \s pleasant. And now at parties when (men seek Ray and sometimes behave f lishly — for he is a very attractive gentle in indeed — Mai, refusing to believe it iiessary to take either Ray or his adrrers down a peg, looks the other way. i d the Millands now are a happy and Ciifident family threesome. Sgo, I think, has a greater effect upon 1 Mywood’s marriage morals than any one cier thing. I go further. Ego, I think, has r-re to do with most love affairs than any C3 other thing, including sex. It is, after £ , finding ourselves so desirable in cither’s eyes that we cannot resist. Which rkes stars, with necessarily well de(pped egos, more susceptible to romanci ' than others might be. Romancing often sves wounded egos, too. I’ve watched rre than one actor, with a wife who excluded him in the studios, turn to a little era girl, more often than not, an extra gl working in his wife’s film. Which is 8 interesting as it is sad, of course. He t ns instinctively to a girl who is not succisful so, by comparison, he will feel im5’tant. And it is, of course, his subcons DUS wish to get quits with the wife whose sicess has hurt his ego that causes him to Fiilander where it is most likely to hurt f’ pride. lichard Ney couldn’t take Greer Garsii’s stardom — even though she was a great Sr when he married her and even though, I elieve, he loved her sincerely. And years ») when Joan Crawford and Douglas lirbanks Jr. were married, Doug couldn’t See lustrous, natural your hair IN bygone days, lovely women used egg with shampoo. Now, again, the lowly egg— just the right amount, in powdered form — ^helps make Richard Hudnut Shampoo soothing, caressing, kind to your hair! But the egg is in a luxurious liquid creme . . . that helps reveal extra glory, extra "love-lights.” Try this new kind of shampoo . . . created for patrons of Hudnut’s Fifth Avenue Salon . . . and for you! A New Kind of Hair Beauty from a World-Famous Cosmetic House not a soap-a stnoow LIQUID CR£ME Not a dulling, drying soap. Contains no wax or paste. Richard Hudnut Shampoo is a sm-O'O'O-th liquid creme. Beautybathes hair to “lovelighted” perfection. Rinses out quickly, leaving hair easy to marsage, free of loose dandruff. At drug and department stores.