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The camera charts the history of the MacDonald-Raymond grin: it started when the bride and groom stepped down the aisle; was still going strong, a year later, on a New York holiday
His marital accomplice — Jeanette MacDonald
"Eventually, after what seemed a month, we did get to Phoenix. I had only one idea. To get into the hotel and go to bed.
"Upon arrival in our rooms, however, my bride decided that the bed wasn't wide enough for her. I never looked at my bed, but no, she had to have a double bed. So finally we got that put up in the other room and I crawled into my single cot and off to slumber I went.
"But not for long. I had been asleep for what seemed two weeks to me when I became conscious of a flashlight being flashed right over my eyes. I sat up, expecting to see at least a burglar, but you know who it was, don't you?"
"Me, the heavy," supplied Jeanette.
"Ignore her," ordered Gene. "But that is who it was.
" 'What on earth?' I demanded of her.
" 'I can't sleep,' she said.
" 'Well, what am I supposed to do about it?' I asked.
" 'You are supposed to wake up and tell me a story that will put me to sleep,' she said.
"I just gazed at her for a moment and then I remembered that we were the wonderful Raymonds. We always laughed. So I said then I would tell her about the history of Arizona.
"You see, knowing we were coming to Arizona to seek sunshine, I had looked up a book on the place.
" 'Well, the history of Arizona ought to put me to sleep,' said Jeanette. So I launched forth
Gene got up and began strutting around the room in a magnificent burlesque of himself telling the story.
"Well, I began talking that history big," he said. "I told her about the winning of the old
West. I told her about the Indian wars and our brave boys righting to make it free for us." He waved his arms around in mock bravado. "Was I terrific? I'll say I was. I put Mrs. Raymond to sleep almost at once She slumbered like a babe, lying on the bed that had been too narrow for her.
"But me! Ah, there you have something. I'd got myself so excited over those Indians that I couldn't go to sleep for hours."
"He did, though," murmured Jeanette from the couch. "He got to sleep around six but I woke up around eight, not knowing that, and I wanted to go horseback riding and I woke him up to tell him, didn't I, dear?"
Gene gave her a look. "You did, indeed, dear," he said.
He sat down, shaking his head in mock sor(Continued on page 82)
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