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too tough when she had to be the breadwinner. Just to make her feel better she’d charge Loder for board and bed. But it was all on the house. So with Ted Stauffer she decided to give up her career and let him do the paying. We all know how that ended. Now she’s racing around in Europe, and her children are at school in San Francisco. But if you were to ask her what she is trying so desperately to find, I doubt whether she could tell you. Never envy the wives of movie stars. Most of them have an awful time. They’re usually pretty, and it’s tough to take a back seat all the time while the fans clamor for their husbands. As Pamela Mason said in that interview, “As a class they live as well or better than women anywhere else. They have beautiful homes, money for clothes. They drive their own cars and they don’t have to look after their children. But still they’re miserable.” Take Mrs. Gary Cooper. She has never wanted to divorce Gary because she loves her position as Mrs. Cooper. But it was awfully boring for her to stand aside while fans rushed for his autograph and girls of all ages swooned. And if the romance with Pat Neal hadn’t been so public, she might have suffered in more or less silence for the rest of her life. And Mrs. Dick Haymes. And I do mean Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes. The love was over, but the humiliation lingered on, when Dick went to Hawaii and raced to New York to be with the new girl of his dreams, and I do mean Rita Hayworth. If you are married to someone who is not a movie star these embarrassing little incidents are private property. And when the French climate proved too exciting for Mrs. Gregory Peck, she flew back to Hollywood with the excuse that the schools here were better for the children. Maybe they are. But that wasn’t why she returned. But Alain Ladd’s wife Sue has no problems. I’d say she was the only non-working movie star’s wife I know who really and truly enjoys her position. That’s because Alan doesn’t make a move without consulting her. And yet Susie is smart enough to let him be the master at home with the children and the servants. It’s wonderful to see their devotion. Gene Kelly’s wife Betsy was quite content to be Mrs. Kelly for a long spell after hey were married. Then came the old yearning for an identity of her own. And hat was the time we started hearing runors that all was not so lovey dovey. [’m beginning to sound pretty gruesome —as though every female living in Hollywood is to be pitied. But we do have some veil adjusted, un-frustrated femme stars. )oris Day is always happy. It’s part of her |)lan for living. She has everything to make ler happy — a career in high gear, terrifically good health and lots of do-re-me in he bank. She didn’t spend much on rivolities before her marriage to Marty lelcher. And now she must be saving a oodly per cent of what they make. 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