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So Howard Hughes put her on salary again, and Jane went back to Columbus, while Howard Hughes went back to making planes. He paid her salary for about a year without casting her in another picture. Then he agreed to loan her for "Young Widow," an independently produced picture. Jane is very frank about the roles she has played. Of "The Outlaw," she says, "I liked the role, but I acted like a wooden stick in the picture. I just didn't know how to act." Of "Young Widow," she said, "I played a dull girl in a dull picture." • She's much more hopeful about her role in "The Paleface." "I play Calamity Jane straight and sarcastic," she says. Though the real Jane can be sarcastic on occasion, she's also kind-hearted. Witness her plan to run a series of benefits for the paraplegic veterans of World War II. Several of the youngsters Jane knows had given parties for the disabled veterans at Birmingham Hospital. Jane noticed how difficult it was for them to get into an ordinary home. Since they were paralyzed, they had to be carried inside, and up the stairs. She decided that the entertainment world ought to do something more to help these paraplegics than anyone had yet done. Why not a series of benefits to raise $100,000 with which to buy land in the San Fernando Valley? Then this land could be divided into lots, on which the disabled veterans could build their own homes. When Jane told Bob Hope her idea, he said, "That's a swell idea. Let's do it." "Bob," laughed Jane, "never gets excited about anything, but is always ready to cooperate on any venture that will help disabled servicemen. He has probably taken part in more benefits than anyone else in the country." Just as Jane found life with Bob Hope very satisfactory on the set, so she's finding her life with Bob Waterfield off the set completely satisfactory. Jane never gushes, but if you goad her on, she will tell you of either Bob, "He's wonderful." She and Bob Waterfield live with his mother in a home in Van Nuys, but are building a new home for the future. Jane, one of whose greatest hobbies is decorating, is planning the decorations for the new home herself. She has several unusual ideas: for instance, a drapery closet with pull drapes in four different colors. She once read an article saying that colors influence your moods, so why not, she says, have different colors for different moods? On the days when she can stand red, she'll have that color. On days when she'd rather have chartreuse or peacock blue drapes, she'll have those. And there will be drapes in one more color, not decided yet. The bedroom will be on one side of the house, the living room on the other, with the closet with the pull drapes in between. She'll be able to pull drapes she wants into either room. Another idea of Jane's is changeable lamp shades. Although Jane is fascinated by decorating, other phases of homemaking don't interest her. She admits candidly that she can't cook. "I won't ever be a housewife, I'm afraid. Bob's a good cook. He says, 'Hand me the pepper, hand me the butter, hand me the flour,' and I hand them to him. I make the salads, set the table and wash the dishes. When I'm working and Bob's on tour, I usually eat out." Asked if she'd like to have children, Jane said, "Yes, I'd like to have a boy and a girl." But she doesn't know whether or not she'll retire after she has children. Meanwhile, she's grateful to Bob Hope Dotty Lamour, dazzling in a black sequined gown, does a Grecian dance in Columbia's "Let's Fall in Love," co-starring Don Ameche. for giving her what she considers the best opportunity she's had in pictures since "The Outlaw." "Bob was very helpful to me all through the making of the picture," Jane told me. "I was very grateful whenever he had a suggestion to make. I can use help. After all, I haven't had much experience in pictures. But Bob never made his suggestions brusquely. He was very tactful." For the first time on the screen, you'll see a girl in "The Paleface" who's something like the real Jane Russell. Not that Jane can shoot the way Calamity Jane could, but she can hold her own in other ways. The role should establish Jane Russell on the screen for the first time as an actress who can act. At least she hopes so. And why not? Where there's Bob, there's Hope. 60 SCREENLAND