TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1956)

so-strange way I seem to have collected a lot of friends who love to cook but have rather inadequate cooking facilities in their own apartments. You know how full of 'pullman kitchens' and hot plates New York is. Well, I'm fortunate enough to have a nice big apartment — five rooms — with a really quite decent kitchen. Or at least I'm told it is. I really wouldn't know. About the most I can manage is the electric coffee maker and toaster. "But — to get back to my cooking friends — it certainly doesn't . make them unpopular with me when they suggest coming over to whip up a home-cooked meal for me and a half-dozen others. Most of my friends are in the entertainment world, in one capacity or another. I don't mean to sound snobbish or choosy about my friends . . . their being in the entertainment field, I mean. It's just that that's where I meet people. So I suppose I might be fairly safe in saying the girl I marry will probably — although not necessarily— be in some way connected with my profession. "Well, for a person who said he had no preferences or real demands, I seem to have prepared a fairly substantial list. Certainly didn't mean to. Always thought love and love alone would be my guide. In fact, despite everything I've said, I'm still of the mind to leave the 'where and when' — and who — up to love." Which is probably the most sensible thing this young bachelor with an eye to the future could do. After all, "Where or When" has always been his good luck charm, and there's no reason to think that adding "who" will change the picture. Grandmas Have the Most Fun (Continued from page 37) chores that go with children. For the first time since the birth of your first child, you can relax a little. Your husband sees you serene, perhaps for the first time. You have a whole new kind of romance." Arthur and Kathryn Murray have had a tremendous romance since they were married, April 24, 1925. Four months before the wedding, they were complete strangers. Arthur, already famous, was broadcasting dance instructions and Kathryn was in the studio audience. He chose her to demonstrate a step. She was one of many thousands of women he had danced with and yet he remembers, "She was so charming that I instantly began to think it would be wonderful to have a wife who was so much fun to be with." Four months later, he slipped a ring on her finger and they honeymooned in Europe. "When we got home, we had a little apartment on Fifth Avenue at NinetySixth Street," Kathryn recalls, "and I wanted to be the perfect housewife. Well, I had been a typical daughter previously, and I had acted as though food grew on the table. I knew nothing. I had to run over to the YWCA for a cooking course." She was determined to be domestic in a big way and every night served dinner in the dining room. She got out her sterling and crystal and her best linen and table service. She decorated the table with flowers one night, with nuts the next, with colored candles another night. "But, you know, it would take us so long to clean up that we never finished in time to make a movie. Then, one night, Arthur brought home a cartoon of a man sitting down to dinner and on the table was an enormous cake with an American flag flying out of the center and the husband saying wearily, 'Darling, must we always have surprises?' Well, I took the lint." Kathryn was, in a sense* relieved. It wasn't that she disliked being a housewife. 3he has always managed her home with efficiency and imagination. The cookery course at the YWCA was just the beginning. She has taken other courses and she has invented some excellent recipes of her own. But the fact remains that she came to feel hemmed in by the stove and refrigerator. Under those circumstances, she couldn't have been more fortunate in her choice of a husband. Arthur Murray preaches and practices equality of the sexes. His business is a big one — he has more than four hundred branch studios in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, England and Honolulu. In this organization, a woman can be sure of equal opportunity with a man. In his office, women hold positions of equal or higher authority than men. Arthur's mother, a practicing realtor, had been a successful business woman, which accounts for his original respect for women as dynamic, capable executives. His continued confidence is due to the remarkable contributions made by Kathryn to his dance studios — although an event early in marriage handicapped her for a while. The event, fifteen months after the wedding, was the arrival of two storks. "Twins! And they weren't a surprise. They were a shock." She recalls, "I had read a book that described twins as a 'freak of nature.' Well, I was upset when I was told that I had twins. I imagined them about the size of birds. I didn't even want to see them. It was the following morning that I saw my girls for the first time. Of course, they weren't freaks. They were lovely babies and I felt differently instantly." The date was July 1, 1926. The twin girls were named Phyllis and Jane. For the next twelve years, Kathryn found herself fully occupied at home. She did manage some outside studying. Prior to marriage, she had prepared to be a teacher at the Newark State Normal School. She added to this with courses in French, horticulture and magazine-article writing. Arthur gave her home courses in business. "I wonder if sometimes the girls didn't feel shut out," she says, "for Arthur and I talked so much about his work. But, you see, I regard the husband as the most important member of the household. Oh, I was attentive to the children but they knew that, if Daddy was to be late, I would wait and have dinner with him." The Murrays lived in the suburbs. Arthur's studio was open evenings. That, along with personal appearances and broadcasts, kept him in the city and he was often late in getting home. Although frequently separated, Arthur and Kathryn were together on attitudes: "Then and now, we often talked about a housewife's life and how it becomes empty and pointless when her children grow up. At that time, she is mature, understanding, disciplined and probably very attractive. We agree that she should then turn to another full-time occupation. Work is what makes a person alert and exciting." When the twins were twelve, Kathryn began to work for Arthur. Her thinking was that the children were in school all day, and occupied with friends and games and study after school, so that there was no need for her until dinner. So, when the children got off in the morning, Kathryn went to the office, then met the children again at dinner. 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