Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

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It's taken me three months to get the plans together and I've spent days knocking out walls on paper, but I have all the time in the world and I'd rather live in an empty house until I get what I want." Which is so typical of Jane. I remember back a few years, when Janie was the life of every party. New clothes, night clubs, lots of laughs. That was Janie's meat. And then she met Ronnie. Night clubs were not for Ronnie. An athlete all his life, Ronnie spent his free time on the golf course — swimming — riding. Anything out in the open. "The girl I marry," he once told me, a long time ago, "will just have to< put up with these things. I can't even imagine myself married to anyone who didn't share my love for sports." I think the first inkling of how Janie felt about Ronnie was one day when I ran into her on the set where Ronnie was working. Over her shoulder was slung a pair of iceskates. Her little skating costume was more than intriguing. "Oh — an athlete," I ribbed. "Yes," Jane answered calmly. "Ronnie and I are going skating as soon as he gets through on the set. I've just come by to pick him up." That was the beginning. The fact that Janie had never been on ice-skates in her life didn't daunt her. Ronnie was interested in skating. Janie took it up. It was the same way with golf — and swimming. Which is another story. Janie didn't swim, either. For weeks, Ronnie tried to persuade her to let him teach her. She was agreeable in the beginning, until she felt she wasn't getting there fast enough. "I'm off to Palm Springs for a few days," Jane told him over the phone one day. "See you when I get back." He didn't find out until later that the reason she was going to Palm Springs was to take swimming lessons from a professional teacher. "And me an ex-life guard !" Ronnie fumed. Entertaining is something of a problem with the Reagans because of their small quarters. But this doesn't stop Jane. "Our charge accounts," she pointed out to Ronnie, "are just the thing. We'll take people to dinner at the Brown Derby. Then, if we feel like playing cards we can come back to the house." "What about her housekeeping?" you might ask. That's simple, according to Jane. "When Ronnie and I were married, I was faced with this problem. Thelma, my maid, is a jewel. She's been with me for years. I put it up to her. " 'Thelma,' I said, 'I don't know a darned thing about the kitchen. Do you?' "Thelma allowed as how she did and I promptly turned the whole works over to her. She does everything. She argues with the grocer and the butcher. She plans the meals and takes care of the laundry. And besides that she keeps up her own home. That's why we always have an early dinner at our house. I figure Thelma has to have some time to herself and I try to get her out of the house at _a reasonable hour." The nurse, in turn, takes care of the baby. Between 11:30 and 12:00 noon, Jane visits with little Maureen. Then, from 5 :00 to 6 :00 in the afternoon is her regular playtime. Ronnie rushes like mad to get home in time to see her, because both of them have agreed her routine is not to be upset for "visiting," even if they are her parents. Each morning finds Jane seated at her little desk, going over the household books, ordering things by telephone for the baby or her own and Ronnie's personal needs, to be "charged." She and Ronnie take care of their own business affairs. "And I must say, I think we've done a good job," she admits. "I had a business manager before I married Ronnie. But I couldn't resist trying to cheat him ! I never could make myself realize that it was really my money he was trying to save. This way, I darned well know it is!" Roz" in Shorthand Continued from page 33 seems to take anyone else's place, Roz." R. R.: "That's right. When I first came to Hollywood I was distressed to read that I would be 'another Myrna Loy' — sounded so presumptuous — -Myrna has her own place. No one can take it. We've all read how Ida Lupino is 'another Bette Davis,' how a John Garfield will 'supplant' a Jimmy Cagney, etc. — that's a very bad idea they had in this business. But it is dying out. Things have changed." G. H. : "What things?" R. R. : "Descended from a grass-hopper, you are, the way you jump at things! — well, the old business of movie stars going into seclusion, for instance, into purdah, clouds of incense — but no more. You have to be a good mixer today. The public demands to see you. You must BE seen. The public is the customer. The customer is always right." (Hazel came in with a tray of sandwiches, pots of tea). G. H. : "Ummm, perfect!" R. R.: (to Hazel) "If you had about 12 dozen more for her, that's what she means by perfect — but what was I saying? — oh, about things changing in Hollywood. Yes, well, but there is no more of the business of the movie star lolling about in her ermine-lined swimming pool — the lilies that toil not neither do they spin have been replaced by the alfalfa that grows on, for instance, Gable's ranch" (I think that's what she said, doesn't seem likely, both Miss R. and Miss H. talk so fast) " — because anyone who earns money today EARNS it. That's as true of a star as of a scrubwoman. No more getting paid for the way your features are put on your face. Even when I am not making a picture, am 'resting,' I am Twenty Little Working Girls rolled into one neat (usually) compact package. "I am busy ALL the time — doing what we are doing today, for example, interviews— quizzes that would make the Quiz Kids grow old overnight. You can't lie by your swimming pool and do nothing. The phone in my house rings from 75_to 200 times a day, actual count — even if Mrs. Lewis, my secretary, or Hazel or the cook 80 SCREENLAND