Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1938)

BEGINNING THE STORY OF MWffiARET SOLLAVAN'S RE6ELLI00S LIFE Y HOWARD SHARPE IT she'd been born fifty years earlier she would have been Scarlett O'Hara, with all of Scarlett's charm and all her fury and all her vital iregard of custom and, in addition, an intelliice that Scarlett never had. She would have 2n Jezebel, what's more, and have loved it. 5ven as it was, she shocked the still decorous, shabby, pants off the South in the years after )9, when she was born — off Norfolk, Virginia, particular. But that was easy, rhat was a pushover, for Margaret Sullavan. ae, 1909 had brought certain modern changes Norfolk since Sherman had slapped the bels down; but it was long before the next Lion mobilization used it for a naval base — ig before young Spencer Tracy and Pat 3rien, aged eighteen each, fought the World ir there. Norfolk was still indubitably Southi, in that year: it said, collectively, "Damn nkee" still — and meant it. Flat, behind time tradition, it had one millionaire and several ndred families who believed staunchly that if i had any important money you made it disicefully, profiteering during the Civil Combat, lerefore they lived proudly and often untid, keeping the family silver and their soft aclts highly polished. 3ne of these clans was that of Sullavan, ided by Cornelius Hancock, successful )ker, and Garland Councill, his spouse. They I long been childless, but in 1908 Garland inmed her husband she was expecting a baby, i on May sixteenth of the next year she bore having thought good thoughts and deliberly read many books on polite art. ["his did no good. The child was Margaret llavan and she turned out disgracefully to be intellectual and, what was worse, a dancer, (Continued on page 20) LUSTRATIONS BY VINCENTINI Her school was thrown into chaos when Maggie, on a nocturnal jaunt, met up with a kindred soul