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ding. At first it worried me that Jim is ten years older than she, but in many ways he’s a boy beside her, and in many ways, she is much more mature than her twentyfour years. And of course, it’s a beautiful thing that they share the same faith. I think it is very hard when even the most loving couples do not. And it is fine, too, that with Jim knowing the discipline of medicine, Ann’s learned the discipline of work too. “She has a good sound head, this Ann. She is not carried away by money or fame. And I think maybe it was God’s blessing, that in the week before their wedding, they both did have everything so crowded and hard-working. Because their work will separate them many times in the future, and they learned just how hard it will be then, when the love was most on them. Of course,” says Mom, “I barely know how they got through their wedding day, or any of the rest of us for that matter. I think the one of the family who was most excited was my grandson, Jimmy O’Connell. He was Ann’s ring bearer, you know, and he was that proud of his little silk suit. Helen Rose, down at Ann’s studio, drew the design for it, and I made it, out of a beautiful piece of silk that Jim had brought back from the Pacific with him, a real China silk. Jimmy’s but seven, and a time we had with him, because at the wedding rehearsals, we made him walk up the aisle with Wendy Moss, Jane Withers Moss’ girl, and she only four. Jimmy was that worried our other little boys would see him, and tease him. But at the ceremony, he behaved like an angel. “At the reception and the wedding you know the demands that were on Ann and Jim with something like a thousand hands to shake and a thousand friends to greet. I don’t know what kept them standing all those hours, they were that tired! So I guess it is all right to tell now that when they spent their honeymoon at Lake Tahoe, they never went out of their cottage. They told us they never saw anyone, or wanted to, and they didn’t so much as get a newspaper. But it was over all too soon, and they came back to their lovely farmhouse at Toluca Lake. And there Jim found out Ann is a fine cook, even of gingerbread, me giving her my recipe. Ann’s studio gave her a week or so off, then ordered her away on location for ‘Rose Marie.’ And of course, it would be right then, with her having to go away, that Jim would come down with a touch of flu. “But life is like that, and it’s well they know it together. And the family couldn’t be happier than having Jim married to such an understanding girl as Ann. It really completes us — or will, that is, when the babies come. We’re very blessed.” And Ann’s blessed too, bless her. ( Ann Blyth is currently in M-G-M’s “All the Brothers Were Valiant.”) They won your votes of confidence— -now read about them in December PHOTOPLAY “YOU CHOSE THESE STARS” with exciting color portraits on sale November 11 pictures! 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