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ing together there was important to their hearts and maybe to their very lives . . . even if their divorce decree was being ground through the courts at that very moment.
It had been five months since Bette Davis and Ham Nelson had finally decided that love was not enough to hold them together; five months since Bette had taken their pattern of marriage and destroyed it by a simple announcement to the papers. And now she was standing beside Ham again.
Yes, Bette and Ham were lucky. The slip of a freckle-faced girl, Pamela Caveness, had brought these two together once more, and if happiness is to be theirs again, they must always breathe a silent prayer of thankfulness to the radio broadcast on which Pamela made her debut.
BETTE couldn't have foreseen the dramatic role that radio was to play in her private life the day that Ham brought Pamela to her. For that was over a year ago and Bette still clung to the illusion that love, deep enough and true enough, could hold a husband and wife together and weave a design of happiness for them.
"This is Pamela," Ham Said, "a little girl who can have a brilliant future if we just give her the help she needs now."
As though Bette and Ham didn't need all the help anyone could give them for themselves! Futures for small girls can wait a little, but marriages which are beginning to tremble need immediate attention.
Yet there was something in Pam's eyes, perhaps, or a memory of her own dreams of success, that held Bette. And the fact that Ham was trying so desperately to succeed as an agent — that unusual and sometimes extremely profitable Hollywood career of finding new talent.
In the end, Bette took Pam into their home, although any third person must add to the strain. So began a new and wonderful life for Pamela Caveness, whose home was in the middle west and whose parents had never imagined they had a daughter with such promise that Bette Davis would take the child under her wing.
Pam couldn't have suspected that she had (Continued on page 71)
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■ Bette's making new working arrangements for fewer pictures a year — to give her more time to be a wife?