Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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It upset me terribly and I was outraged. We denied it, of course', and the next day the papers printed the denial, then the following week they said we were separating again. It went on that way the whole time we were there. I was inclined to take it too much to heart, but Frank taught me how to regard such stuff as utter silliness. Still, I can see how false rumor ultimately separates a great many people who love each other." It seems too incredible to those who gossip that the less important husband of a famous woman can really give up his own work just to be of service to her and yet remain content in his position. Consequently the true facts are always twisted — he is either softly living on his wife's support, or he retires because he knows he can never become as important as she, or he hasn't any pride. On the contrary, Frank Chapman must have had the pride of ten men to withstand the things that he knew were being suggested about him on all sides. "Rose of the Rancho" was not the success Hollywood nor Gladys had hoped it would be. "I'm not satisfied with what I've done in 'pictures," she told me last summer, "I'm going back to the coast to make 'Champagne Waltz' and do the finest job I ever did. Then I shall have hurdled my last big obstacle. I can just simply sit down and take a big long breath and relax for the first time in years!" But what about her husband? When Gladys' career should become securely established she wouldn't need him any more. That would be the crucial point of his three years of complete sacrifice; then would come the biggest adjustment he would have to make. BACK to the coast they went again. Frank was present on the set every day while his wife was working, smoothing out a detail here, making a valuable suggestion there. Paramount even appointed him musical supervisor. With the result that "Champagne Waltz" was a tremendous success from its very first rushes. Gladys has never looked lovelier nor sung in more perfect voice nor acted more competently than in her newest picture. With its preview she stepped to the topmost step of her career: her last big obstacle had finally been hurdled and she could continue safely on her own, unaided by her husband. So again the gossips sat back to see what Frank Chapman would do. Hollywood, which had tried to separate them before, now had greater reason than ever to attempt it, for with her recent hit Gladys Swarthout became one of the most important names in the cinema city roster. And all rumor needs to start its vicious work is an important name and a good reason. People said Frank realized his marriage would need another support to stay intact against this new circumstance that would inevitably destroy it. People also said he did what he did not because he really desired to follow his old career again but simply because he had to do it to save himself. Anyway, he came out of retirement. Radio offered him a job at the moment when he needed one badly and he took it. Wisely, he had not entirely neglected his talent during the past three years. He hadn't let his rich baritone voice become rusty through lack of use. What spare moments he had which could not be put to Gladys' advancement he had spent in practice and study. WHICH proves, I think, a very admirable thing about this man. His long retirement was not merely an act to insure his marriage by doing away with the causes of professional jealousy. Neither was it a refuge, a comfortable spot to retreat to where there would be no futile struggle to match the achievements of another brighter star. If either of these had been his motives he would have let his own talent wither, for a reason. Instead, he kept his voice in trim so that whenever Gladys became established he could step back into his career just as before to take up where he left off. He has proved by returning to the air that he stopped singing three years ago purely to devote himself to his wife's getting ahead, and nothing more. And a sacrifice of that kind is invariably rewarded. For when he sought to step back into professional life, radio, the thing that had caused the rift between careers in the beginning, gave him his chance. Frank Chapman and Gladys Swarthout, equally starred on their new half hour broadcast, are broadcasting together again just the way they started out. On an equal footing. So far as the program is concerned neither is the leader and neither is the follower. They aren't billed as Mr. and Mrs., for Frank is not one to want to share reflected glory from his famous wife's bright limelight. Instead they are two distinctly individual artists striving for the approval of their listeners, each solely on his own merits. A happier circumstance still, their marriage is back on its old secure basis. There need be no more rumors about the Chapmans, no more dangerous crises nor injured prides nor sacrifices for them to face. Provided, of course, that Frank makes good on the air. He will. Being the fine person and artist that he is, he deserves the rare luck it takes for fame to strike in the same marriage twice. ATTENTION ALL YOU AMATEUR BROADCASTERS! WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MOST THRILLING EXPERIENCE AS A DX'er? RADIO MIRROR WANTS YOUR STORIES. WRITE US A LETTER DESCRIBING THE MOST EXCITING MOMENT YOU'VE KNOWN WHILE YOU WERE BROADCASTING. Keep your letter short. Don't write over 250 words. Best letters win cash prizes. Address Radio Mirror Magazine, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y.