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NEW KIND MARRIAGE
WHEN MARY PICK
FORD BECAME EN
GAGED TO BUDDY
ROGERS, IT WAS NEWS— BUT THERE
ARE BIGGER HEAD
LINES IN THE WAY
THEY'VE PLANNED
FOR THE FUTURE
Columbia Pictures
By MARY WATKINS REEVES
IN the best Hollywood tradition, when a couple marry, it's a streamlined romance from ring to Reno. Love at first sight . . . Plane dash to Yuma . . . Headlines . . . Honeymoon at some very swank resort . . . Home. At home, in the best Hollywood tradition, the last thing the bride would ever think of doing would be burning a biscuit, turning down a dinner date with an old beau or letting her husband interfere with her career; and the last thing the groom would ever think of doing would be encouraging burnt biscuits, forgetting his old flames or letting a wife interfere with his personal liberty.
It's the gay new mode. It's modern marriage.
But America's Boyfriend and America's Sweetheart don't
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give a fig for Hollywood tradition. For them it wasn't love at first sight, they won't elope, they'll honeymoon at home, and settle down to live in direct contrast to most of their neighbors.
Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford are going to have a new kind of old-fashioned marriage.
Picture a queen who shuts the great doors of her castle behind her forever and goes to seek her happiness in the ordinary life of an ordinary woman. She is stepping out of the spotlighted showplace that was the castle, into the quiet unpretentiousness of a ranch house in the hills. Trading her formal hostess gowns for gay little aprons, her social secretaries for a phone that won't ring too often. Tearing