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YOU'VE been told so many things that aren't true about Nelson Eddy — the endless romances, the countless girls that have stirred him — that it's a little hard to offer you his attitudes toward love and marriage and life and his work, as they really exist.
We talked about it yesterday on the huge set where, with Jeanette MacDonald and under the direction of Edmund Goulding, he is making "Maytime." When it's released, his fan mail will probably go up another million, though Heaven knows what he'll do with it; he already gets more than any other human being in the United States. 1 said,
"You're in love again, I see. So-and-So says so in his gossip column."
He didn't even bother to look annoyed. "I wonder just how much glamor I'd lose if someone wrote my actual views on the subject? If someone gave the public a little truth, for a change?" "They'd like it," I told him.
So this is the truth. It's the story of a solemn, hardworking, hard-studying sincere boy who left school at fourteen to get a job and help support his mother and himself; of an older-than-his-years youth who had no time for any of the happy irresponsible nonsense of most young men. It's the story of great determination and of steady unremitting labor and of a beautiful understanding between a charming woman and her son. It's Nelson's real story.
I'm not implying that he has had none of the fleeting little infatuations, the mild short-lived romances that are a part of every normal man's existence. But he chooses to make them his personal business and that's a decision to be respected. He has never married and he has never been enough in love to want marriage. The chances are fifty-fifty that he never will.
"I don't know how I can explain it to you so it will make sense," he said, stretching back in his chair. "Attitudes are hard to put into words. But my profession— music and all it stands for and myself in relation to it — represents about ninety per cent of my life. I hate the word, but my career as a singer means almost everything to me. It always has.
"When you've got so tremendous, so overpowering a force filling you — your personality and your life — it takes a pretty big thing to match that force, to stand up against it.
"And, you see, I'm an idealist about marriage. I'll have to find a love that will at least be as great an influence within me as my ambition and my love of work, before I'll get married. And that's hard to find."
I said, "Haven't you ever thought that if you married someone for a smaller love, and it didn't
For his Vicks program, turn to page fifty-two.
Nelson's romantic baritone and handsomeness draw millions of letters. They're part of the reason he's never let himself fall head over heels in romance.
Clarence Sinclair Bull