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Write for particulars and Free Book to-day. The IRVING-VANCE COMPANY Ltd 346 Hart Building, Toronto, Can. She shifted her attention naturally from the hammock on the front porch to the kitchen, the nursery, and to church suppers. "But today — how different. Not only has a wife to be a combined Madonna and Cleopatra, but she has often to be a business woman, sharing a fifty percent, economic burden with her man, as well as a fairly good athlete, a perfect listener, and — if she hopes to hold her man, she must also put on a 'clinging vine' act. She must never appear too capable or selfsufficient. And her sharpest weapon to fulfill all these modern exactions is her appearance. Foreigners say we American women exaggerate the importance of physical appearance, of sex appeal. But without this one tangible quality, we cut the throat of our own happiness and some other woman wins the diamond bracelet ! "Bitter? I think not. I have studied this situation very carefully from the time I left Radcliffe College. I have been married myself, am a mother. Loved my husband but we separated. I've also been a business woman. I answered an advertisement in The Nczv York Times and procured a position in an advertising agency. Gary Cooper who co-starred with the beautiful Marlene Dietrich in "Morocco" will play next in "Fighting Caravans," a lusty Western. Right away, I noticed that of the twenty women there, nearly all were divorced, separated, or actively or phlegmatically unhappy in the marital relationship. We were' all in the same boat ! Therefore, I combined their experiences with my own and wrote them down in a book, 'Ex-Wife,' which I didn't sign. But after two printings, at the advice of my publishers, I did. And imagine my embarrassment when everybody thought it was my wordfor-word life story! Which it is not. "Recently, I became interested in talkies when I read a book, 'The Art of Talking Pictures,' by Walter Pitkin. Shortly afterward, I received a contract to write original stories for the screen. I accepted on the condition that I would not have to white-wash my heroines or life in general. They agreed. And in my scenarios, ! present life as it is and sex as it is, not trying to prettv things up. ''Often, naturally, the picture companies must change my stories to meet the demand of the censors, as was the case in The Divorcee,' made from 'Ex-Wife.' I like the film, and thought Norma Shearer gave a remarkable characterization, even though it was not 'Ex-Wife.' However, despite the present censorial limitations, talking pictures interest me greatly. And I believe they are 'going' more and more sophisticated all the time. That's how they can help. By beginning their stories at the altar instead of ending them there. And by giving the unsophisticated, inexperienced feminine theater-goer some idea of just what she is up against when she slips on the good old marital bonds. She will be up against tef rific economic pressure, terrific female competition, and up against a condition twice as 'threatening as these two — the old marital specter, familiarity ! "The movies are doing their best to treat sex honestly. Norma Shearer stars in sophisticated pictures. Kay Francis, also. Ann Harding in 'Paris Bound' did more for marriage than a million preachments. And, of course, Ruth Chatterton and Clive Brook have done a great deal of good in the normal attitude many of their films have assumed on the marriage problem. "The one fact which cheers me up most of all about the future of matrimony is that statistics show that while one out of every five marriages — that is twenty percent— ends in the court of domestic relations either in separation or divorce, in second marriages only three out of every hundred do, which is only three percent \ And as women see more and more sophisticated films, and more and more begin to look on marriage logically instead of hysterically, both of these percentages will be lowered." Despite Miss Parrott's broad views on life, she looks as unsophisticated as a little New England girl. She is twenty-seven years old with straight-cut blue-black hair, and straight-seeing clear, grey eyes, and presents none of the extremely urban characteristics one would expect. But no matter what she allows her heroines to do, Ursula Parrott holds rather conservative views herelf. "Just how much talking pictures can help women to adjust their views of living, to become at the same time more balanced in their own behavior and more understanding of the behaviour of their husbands, is a problem. If producers handle the sex question honestly, that may not mean 'boxoffice' successes, unless women learn to take their amusement in adult doses. And since all of us want to make as much money as we decently can, it is perhaps asking a lot of the producers to take this risk. In the final analysis, it's up to the women themselves to decide whether they want impossible fairy-tale romances or whether they want the portrayal of human, compassionate relationships. "Naturally, not every woman has a marriage problem to solve. There are many happy marriages which we don't hear about because only the unhappy ones publicize their dissatisfaction. And, after all, a woman may achieve a business career — she may travel, flirt, gossip, write, paint, be a concert artist and all that. But, in my opinion, the woman who wins first prize in the grab bag of life is the woman who marries the man she loves — and holds on to him!"