Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

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Maybe you are one of those wholesome-as-bread-and-butter women, and your husband does emotional cartwheels at the mention of the glamorous, languorous-eyed Garbo. However, don't be incensed by his raves over Greta. Be guided by them ;now one just like him) who has a yen for Janet Gaynor, which eaves his wife fit to be tied. It has not yet dawned on Mrs. S that ive years ago, when she married Bill S >he was a cuddly little thing who made aim feel big and strong and wonderul. Bill had some kind of an idea hat he was going to be head of lis own house — but five years lave changed all that. Mrs. 5 has developed a regrettable air of positiveness, ind is about as helpless as an irmored tank. Some day she will get around o the realization that papa is :razy about Janet because Janet reminds him of the days Ai surprising number of men suffer with Colbert trouble. If Vour husband has been smitten by Claudette, don't take it as a Joke. The poor man may crave bangs when he had the situation in hand and was permitted to be protective. Then she will know that his enchantment is in reality an indirect compliment to her. This one happens to be a case-history with an obvious solution. There are many which offer more of a problem — in fact, there are several which seem beyond hope at the first diagnosis. A perfectly charming merchant, who seems quite well-balanced in every other respect — has gone ga-ga, non compos mentis, in plain American — mils — about Greta Garbo. He admits it without a blush, the rogue. He will drive to Pasadena in a pouring rain to see a Garbo picture for the third time. To make the situation practically hopeless, his wife is a bouncing athletic girl with all the glamour of a bowl of wholesome baked beans. She pretends to be amused about it, but it annoys her. If she had eyelashes as long as Garbo's, she would trip over them, and her eyes snap and sparkle in place of her rival's troubled languor. But all is not lost. She has two natural assets which would safely eliminate the accusation of imitating Garbo, and she could use them to advantage . . . One is a long free stride and the other is a gorgeous [ please turn to page 111]