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Makes Man
Arlen and, Jobyna Ralston change that has come over and the cause of it.
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Dick and Jobyna slowly built their home, doing part of the work themselves.
Until he found his watch. Until he remembered, belatedly, to take that and the ring to be photographed.
"Dick," said Joby a little later, "did you tell a man to bring some Oriental rugs out here to show me ?"
"No, honey. I don't know anything about them."
"He said you had looked at his rugs in Hollywood and told him to bring them here for me to select from. I didn't know whether that was your usual stall to get rid of him. You see," she explained, turning to me, "Dick can't say no. He'll buy anything, sign anything, just because he's too soft-hearted to refuse. The only way he can wriggle out is to shoo people onto me. I'm the family goat, with a large supply of 'noes' for the two of us.
"The result is, I'm getting a terribly hard-boiled reputation. People say, TDick Aden's a great fellow, but ouch ! that wife of his ! She's a stiff proposition, all right !' I don't like to turn people down any more than Dick does, but what can I do ? We can't buy everything."
On another occasion Dick was telling all about his career to a sympathetic listener. "I wish he wouldn't do that," Joby told me in distress. "Talking shop all the time. But he'll get over it. It's only because his success is still new to him."
Undoubtedly Joby will cure him of that actor's habit of talking about himself, his career, his ambitions. She adores him, and she's a clever girl. She's a perfect wife for him.
Unlike many Hollywood couples, they don't put up a big front about their fondness for each other. They don't go around shouting loudly that they are blissfully happy.
But the way they look at each other, and the atmosphere of their home, reveal all this very definitely. Their home was put together, bit by bit, with loving, painstaking labor.
For they hadn't very much money to start on. Dick's fame is too recent to have brought him a star's salary, under his long contract with Paramount. Jobyna's services are much more expensive, but she free-lances, and perhaps because her price is so high, there are weeks and weeks when she doesn't work at all. And she has her family to support.
So the newlyweds started out on very little. They wanted a house of their own, but they determined, sensibly, that they would not go into debt building it.
They bought a lot at Tallica Lake, near Burbank, quite far
from the Hollywood colony, where land is ~. , T ,
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less expensive. And — common sense again against thg com_
— it is too far from town for friendly groups petition of many
to pop in on them unexpectedly in hilarious suitors better off
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