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Last April when the Hersholts began making a list of "just a few friends" to be invited to their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary party, they were alarmed when the list passed one hundred. The problems disappeared with careful planning. The hundred guests came, overflowed from the big magenta and blue-grey drawing room into the downstairs library and sitting room; when all the rooms in the house were filled, late comers were welcomed in the garden. Equally responsible for the success of the party — along with the enchanting setting and good food — were the stories Jean and Via recalled of their courtship and their marriage and the struggles of their early years together. They met in 1913 when twentyseven-year-old Jean — though celebrated as a star in Copenhagen, was a struggling aspirant to American fame in the infant film industry in Hollywood— was invited to Montreal to star in a play for the Danish Brotherhood. His hosts had assembled a group of young amateurs from whom he could pick his supporting cast, and Jean quickly chose blonde, young Via Andersen to be his leading lady. Jean spent only four weeks in Montreal, but before he left they were engaged, and the next April Via came to meet Jean in San Francisco, where they were married. They went to Hollywood — or rather to metropolitan Los Angeles, there was no town of "Hollywood" in those days — to establish their home in a cramped, little apartment on Figueroa Street. From there, Jean took the fifteen-mile street car trek to the Ince studios every day, and Via managed to keep house, "splendidly," Jean says, on their fifteen-dollar-a-week income. They returned to San Francisco after their first anniversary where Jean directed the Danish national play at the International Exposition and Via went to a hospital to have their son, Allan. Life is much easier now for the Hersholts than in those early days of their marriage, and their circle of friends expanded to include notable people from every field and from almost every country in the world. Their guest lists are never without a sprinkling of notables from diplomatic and government circles, for Jean Hersholt has for years been a friend of kings and presidents. In the only motion picture in which he has appeared in the past six years, "Dancing in the Dark," Jean plays himself as the president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. This group, through which the people of the motion picture industry provide for the sick and aged and destitute among their fellow workers, has just elected Jean its president for the thirteenth time. In the red to the tune of $34,000 when Jean first took office, the Fund last year aided a peak load of 10,000 applicants for help, and remained solvent, at the same time running at capacity its beautiful Rest Home for retired actors and its new hospital with beds for one hundred patients. The Screen Guild radio program, which Jean Hersholt originated, supports the hospiial; and . in the film-depression period last year came to the aid of the general Fund program. There was no Motion Picture Relief Fund to rescue down-on-their-luck actors when Jean Hersholt first came to Hollywood. And not because there were no actors — Jean among them — frequently down on their luck. Jean was making eighteen dollars a week at the Ince studios when he and Via brought their infant son, Allan, back from San Francisco. "We had a little apartment at Ocean Park," Via recalls, "three rooms and a kitchen, for $12.50 a month. The rent seemed quite high, what with the cost of diapers and milk." But they managed, for, as Jean says, "Via has always been a splendid cook." They managed, that was, until Allan fell seriously ill with scarlet fever. There was no provision in their budget for medicines, or doctor bills, so Jean had to think of something. What he thought of left him black and blue, but increased his professional versatility. There were no such things as extras in those early days of film-making, and the studios needed lots of Indians. Actors in the stock company who were willing to ride horses bareback as Indian braves could pick up an extra dollar or so a week. If they were willing to be "shot off" their horses, they could claim three dollars a fall. When the baby was sick Jean, who was deathly afraid of horses, volunteered for falling duty. His bruises paid the doctor bills. The Hersholts were willing to do anything, when times were tough, to eat — including even selling some of Jean's treasured first editions. But times were not tough forever, and they've been rosy now for a good, long time. Jean Hersholt has been one of the lucky ones, and he is acutely aware of that. In his thirty-six years in films and radio, he has spent thirty-four under contract. He will never have to fall off a horse to pay a doctor bill. Jean's professional activities for the past twelve years have been concentrated in radio. Dr. Christian went on the air on CBS in 1937 as the result of Jean's success in the same role in the film, "The Country Doctor." The show has been on the air every week since, on the same network, the same time, and for the same sponsor. Jean's comparatively easy life as a radio star leaves him with time to devote to his reading and writing, and philanthropic activities. Not only has he served the Motion Picture Relief Fund as president for twelve years, but for the past seven years he has found the energy to function as well as a leader of another motion picture industry institution, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For three years he was first vice president, and the following four years Academy president. At home, Jean says he "lives" in his upstairs library. Sijrrounded by his books, puffing away on one of his famous collection of pipes, Jean can read or write or just think in peace and quiet. Every wall of his library is lined with great books, and they have spilled over into the closets. It's the good life at the Hersholts' — it's real, it's permanent. And the skeptics would do well to take another look.