Screenland (Feb-Oct 1949)

on meeting Roy in person, I know that his heart is mine. "Roy shares his life with me — all of it. He has taught me to shoot, hunt and fish. Our life together is wholesome. His favorite sport is to go coon hunting, which starts around nine at night — .vith long walks into the canyons. Around midnight I would get hungry. So the other night we took sandwiches and some raw coffee and a tin can. After we'd bagged our coon, we made a fire and boiled coffee. Roy teased that this was Lady's Deluxe hunting. "It's the little things that give you confidence and a real understanding of each other. I know when to be quiet and when to talk. Roy asks my opinion on everything. We love composing music together. Our favorite is about Roy's little boy, Dusty. I wrote the melody and Roy helped with the lyrics. "I make my time coincide with Roy's. Tomorrow he goes to Texas on business. Do I stay here for my weekly radio show? No. They can pipe me in from Texas or do without me that week. My life is with Roy." Dale might entertain ideas about mink coats and Valentina gowns, but she doesn't think they are suitable for Roy Rogers' wife. "Roy likes me to wear freshly washed clothes with frills, like peasant and Western clothes, at home. He likes simple dinner dresses with bare shoulders, but with a Western motif. We usually wear suits to match. I have a Labrador fox coat — because it is light — and Roy usually wears light clothes. I don't think elaborate mink and lots of glamourous jewelry would be suitable. I dress in keeping with Roy. This year I plan a new fur coat, of some simple fur, with wide shoulders and a belted back — Western." Dale was wearing a blue quilted skirt and a little old-fashioned high-necked blouse with a handsome cameo pin brooch set with a diamond. "Roy bought it for me from a lady who admired him. She wanted to give it to him, but Roy insisted on buying it," Dale said. "Simple clothes for a simple life. When we are no longer making pictures we hope to spend our lives on a ranch in Marysville, up in Northern California. "Funny, and I was so ashamed," Dale laughed. "The other morning my legs felt like I had polio or something and when I came down to breakfast, Roy said, 'Mommy, look at your face!' I was covered with red dots — the German measles." No, Dale didn't give them to Roy or the children — but she was plenty embarrassed. And Roy, who was scheduled to appear at a civic banquet to take a bow, sat right by the bedside of Mrs. R. R., or Miss Dale Evans, either way— and told them, "I'm sorry, but my wife isn't well — and I cannot leave her." And he never will. "I have no social ambitions," said Dale. "No ideas of being a glamourous screen star — or anything at all. Just a good mother to Roy's children, a good wife, a pal and a sweetheart to a man who so devotedly has given me his heart and his future — and the future of his children into my keeping." Saturday Night Date With Montgomery Gift Continued from page 25 I laughed to myself. I felt very good. I arrived twenty minutes late. Monty was still getting dressed. He was knotting one of the two ties he owns, no kidding, and worrying because Kevin McCarthy, his best friend, hadn't shown up. "The doorbell rang a couple of times, but it wasn't his ring," he said. "I can't ever tell if it's someone I'm expecting or those kids who wait around outside. Gee, they're nice kids, but if you start letting some of them up here — well, it gets to be quite a free-for-all. I don't want to offend them, but still — they're driving me nutty!" At that moment the bell rang in a way that seemed to be a signal to Monty for he put on his tweed jacket — and down the five flights we went. Unlike the last time I had been there no ardent fans were in evidence — even they have to knock off for supper— and Kevin was waiting in front in his car. On our way over to the West Side, where the boys knew of a little Italian restaurant, we passed the St. Regis. "Hey, isn't that 'Bogey' and 'Baby' coming out?" asked Monty. "Bogey" and "Baby" turned out to be Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall. "It sure is," replied Kevin, "they're probably going to '21.'" " '21,' " stated Monty, "is ONLY three and a half blocks away. Why are they getting into a limousine?" "Simple. When you're a celebrity you ride around in a mobproof car so you arrive at a restaurant in the same suit you left home in. The reason you are now riding in my old '32 Plymouth is you don't have as many fans as he does and it's not so dangerous!" Kevin, who's a well-known stage actor in his own right, was ribbing Monty, but I knew he was sincere when he said Monty just wasn't capable of "putting on airs." 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