Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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RADIO MIRROR white teeth and the longest eyelashes that ever flashed on a screen. Beside his solid six-foot-one physique Mary Pickford's fragile hundred-pound-weight looks positively diminutive. However, it's the change in Buddy inside that's most noticeable. There isn't left about him a single hey-hey hangover from the old days. He's a calmer, far more reserved person. He has matured to a man of forceful personality, stability and a great deal of charm. JulARY and I don't want what's called "V1 a 'modern marriage,' " he continued. "You know, I'm always bewildered at the rules and devices people invent to try to make their lives together work out — things like separate vacations and wives and husbands going out with other people. And too sumptuous homes that through their sheer vastness will prevent a couple from experiencing the little everyday intimacies that are supposd to destroy romance but which 1 think are half of a real companionship. "We haven't got anything against the way a lot of other people live. We just like the old fashioned idea, that's all. The idea of living for the person you're married to instead of living for yourself — after all, that's the fundamental difference between the two kinds of marriage. "We're going to live for each other. That's the secret. You see, when two people discover that they need each other to achieve their greatest happiness it seems to me that there's only one condition necessary to insure that happiness — and that is that neither one nould do anything that could injure the other person. The old give and take and always consider the other fellow attitude. A marriage like that can survive anything Hollywood would wreck it with. "We want to live simply. No show, no lavish entertaining. Mary's a wonderful hostess and she loves to give parties but we're going to scale down such entertainining as we do to informal affairs. Neither of us gives a hoot for night-clubing. We'll keep our evenings free for the things we really enjoy — concerts and movies, reading aloud, our mutual friends, listening to the radio. We're going to garden a lot and ride together early in the mornings. These things and our work will make up our life, and everything else can go hang. "That's our idea of really living!" The days at Pickfair weren't that way. For two decades Pickfair was the castle from which Mary ruled undisputedly over Hollywood society, carrying out as glittering and rigid a life as a queen. Many's the time the residents of the castle practically moved out on the lawn to accommodate the entourages of famous guests. Few of the guests were actually invited; they came with letters of introduction or through the maneuvering of friends. A "command" dinner party for the man who is now George VI of England was nothing out of the ordinary, nor were entertainments for Prince William of Sweden, Prince and Princess Prajadhipok of Siam, Einstein, Marconi, Lady Mendl. There won't be any "command" dinner parties at the house in the valley. Visitors will be invited and they'll be quartered in the chintz-curtained guest rooms and expected to take pot luck at the dinner table and like it. The life of the Rogers is not to be constantly upset just to please visiting celebrities. Radio will play an important part in their plans "Above everything else," Buddy told me, "we're anxious to be together every possible minute. Sometimes I wonder why it is that people marry so they can be together and then spend their time doing so many things that keep them apart. We want to settle down and stay home. That's why I'm especially delighted that I've got my radio spot on Twin Stars. If 1 can make good at radio I'll be able to let all this banging around the country go, keep the band in Hollywood and still work on the air and in pictures Probably you know I have signed a sevenyear contract with Columbia Pictures." Buddy is aware, I think, that the kind of life they're planning together will be a great change for Mary, will require much adjustment on her part. It is for that reason, most likely, that he is leaving all the arrangements for that life to her decision — from the date of the wedding to the blueprints for remodeling the house. A quiet and simple marriage will be a great change for Buddy too, after his long and carefree bachelorhood. BUT this is all I've ever really wanted," he said to me, ". . . the one right woman and a home. I've had enough of socalled freedom. Freedom's not so wonderful, you know, when you realize that all the time you're really searching for the right person to imprison you!" And who'll be the boss in an old fashioned marriage? Buddy's mother and Mary are very dear friends. What chance has a man got when the two women closest to him are so strongly in cahoots? Buddy only laughed. "Well, I may be letting myself in for it," he said jokingly, "but I guess I'm big enough to take it! Anyway, I'll be the luckiest fellow in the world as long as I have Mary." Then he was quickly serious instead of laughing. "Come around twenty years from now," he added, "and you'll see that I still haven't changed my mind!" ALL I CAN SAY IS YOU'RE "v NOT THE SWEETHEART ) I MARRIED ! /-^ OH, I SWITCH AROUND! WHY? DEAR, YOU VE GOT TO USE LIFEBUOY REGULARLY, IF YOU'RE GOING TO keep DAINTY! NO OTHER WELLKNOWN TOILET SOAP HAS ITS SPECIAL INGREDIENT THAT STOPS "B.O." \ wm Enjoy regular protection! Remember — warm rooms, heavy clothing .. increase clanger of offending with"B.O." . . . Bathe regularly with Lifebuoy. And use itfor your complexion, too. "Patch" tests on the skins of hundreds of women prove it's over 20% milder than many so-called "beauty" and "baby" soaps. ^j^p^ y}pprovej by Good Housekeeping Bureau 87