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Perhaps, however, the situation can be corrected when the world comes back to an incentive to make a good life and a good home. That incentive is absent from American life today. IRENE: I don't believe a woman aspires to be equal to a man unless she holds a man's job. And what's wrong with that? Many women are superior to men. This is a land of opportunity, after all. But no woman should forget that making a home is her biggest job. Every thing else is secondary — a movie career included, but definitely! MAUREEN: I go back to my original statement — the only woman who desires to be equal to any man is an unloved woman. She is only trying to prove to herself that she doesn't need love. If she loves and is loved, she can't care about being equal. HOLLAND: And that's all for this month. We hope you'll all be with us for next month's session when we shall again go into a provocative subject. Thanks to all of you for your interesting letters. Keep them coming! The Girl That I Married Continued from page 29 time, we had about ten dates. We didn't realize our feelings for each other suddenly. Gradually, during our times together, we had begun to feel something more than friendship. But I think we knew definitely one day on Stage 24. That was the day we were to film our number for "Till The Clouds Roll By." The song we were to sing was "The Song Is You." Well, the song was — us! As it turned out, however, our number was among several that were cut out. But our romance lasted. The song is now our melody and when we went on a personal appearance tour this year, we closed all of our shows with it. We're both glad now that it wasn't in the picture. A couple of months later we began to discuss marriage Our decision to marry was no spontaneous thing. We wanted to be sure that we were taking the right step. We weighed the obstacles, the pros and the cons. We had both married before when we were too young and we didn't want to make the same mistake again. But at least we were aware of what our mistakes had been, so we had something concrete to .guide us. For my part, I don't believe now in young marriages because, as was my case, kids outgrow each other, their tastes change. My Dad warned me not to marry before I was thirty, but I didn't listen and married when I was nineteen. But to get back to Katie and me. We had to wait a year before we could marry. During that time we had plenty of chances to decide if we were right in marrying. We discovered each other's faults. I had to get used to Katie's quick temper. I didn't try to change that about her, I merely made every effort to be tolerant of it. And she had to learn — and will continue to have to learn — to combat my inane habit of chattering all of the time. But the year didn't make us feel any differently toward each other. It only cemented our feelings, made them stronger, made us sure we were right. A lot of people have asked us recently how we intend to combat the typical Hollywood pitfalls to a happy marriage. "Two careers in the same family!" they gasp, horrified. "Can't, be done! You'll never be happy." Oh, we've heard all the arguments. But we feel that the fault in a Hollywood marriage doesn't lie in what happens after marriage. Rather, the fault lies in what happens before. Just because two stars in pictures happen to know each other is no reason for them to get married. The way I feel, if I were a ribbon clerk in a store and Katie ran an elevator I'd still think we are right for each other. I know you've heard the old saying about a career not being the important thing, but it's true with Katie and me. A career is honestly secondary in our lives. As much as Katie likes to sing and to be in pictures, she can hardly wait to have a family. It's one thing to say, "I want a home and a family and keep my career," but it's something else entirely different to say, as Katie has said, "I want a home and a family in spite of what happens to my career." That's our philosophy. And I know it can work for us. Now, as for advising each other on career matters. I've heard people here say that's impossible if you want to keep a marriage happy. That you must close the door on the studio once you enter your home. I don't believe that's possible, and I certainly can't see how good, healthy discussion of your work and its problems can hurt a marriage. After all, before we were married I talked her out of opera, and that was a serious thing to Katie. While we don't intend to make autocratic demands and force decisions on each other, we still want to help each other as much as possible. We want to share our problems. But at the same time, I'd never tell Katie what picture she should do or what kind of a contract she should sign. Nor will she tell me what type of radio show I should do. Advising on matters as serious as that can be dangerous and it can lead to unnecessary friction. And that takes care of the business end of our marriage. For the more personal aspects, the more I'm with Katie the more I discover new things about her. You'd never guess it, but she has the greatest appetite I ever saw. She and I have eaten — by ourselves — four chickens with all the trimmings She doesn't eat potatoes, however. And after that, we have been known to cut an angel food cake in half, top it with strawberries, and consume a man-sized shortcake. I can eat this much because I exercise a lot, but Katie doesn't have as much chance for outdoor life as I do. Yet, with all her healthy appetite, she still keeps her twenty-two waistline. In case anyone is interested, I have maintained my twentynine measurement. It wouldn't be quite right to say that 80 SCREENLAND