Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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FASHIONED MARY AND BUDDY Buddy came back to radio this winter when his band was signed for Friday night's Twin Stars. up an old life's roots that were wrapped about costly furnishings and glistening parquet floors, visiting royalty and shimmering chandeliers; transplanting those roots to modest surroundings and a simple regime. She is exchanging pomp for peace, circumstance for contentment — and gladly. The queen is a fair little lady with tired eyes and a heart eager to be rid of its awful loneliness. She is Mary Pickford on the day she leaves Pickfair to become the bride of Buddy Rogers. Picture a tall and strikingly handsome man who has known the rare thrill, the rewards, the ego-satisfying success of being an idol. Adored of women the world around, sought after by hostesses, befriended by many of the most beautiful stars in Hollywood, innumerable paths to romance constantly beckoning him. He is leaving all that, the free and casual and exciting life of a popular young bachelor, to settle down with one woman and one romance. To come home promptly to the usual dinners-for-two on a card table before the fire. To take on the responsibilities, the ties and inevitable routine of marriage — and gladly. The idol is a more quiet man than you'd expect, with gently charming manners and eyes most noticeably lighted by happiness and expectations. He is Buddy Rogers on the day he becomes the husband of Mary Pickford. This new life for these two will in almost every way be a direct contrast to their pasts. Perhaps for that very reason it is so much the life they want. They have decided upon it, planned for it. For Buddy and Mary are much like two weary travelers who, having met many times on the highway, meet again in surprise one day to discover that all along each had been blindly searching for the other. "It was last July when I returned to Hollywood," Buddy told me, "that we began to go together steadily for the first time. Up until then we seldom saw each other more than once a year when our paths would accidentally cross in New York or Chicago. I was traveling with my band, you see . . ." He paused, fumbled his necktie, blushed to the line of his thick black hair. "Well, it's hard to say how or why you fall in love with someone. I had (Continued on page 86) 35