Screenland (Nov 1949-Oct 1950)

came the romantic target for many a movie miss. Steve invited them all up to his house. There'd be three or four movie beauties individually accustomed to being spoiled. People marveled. "How can he please so many girls at a time when most men can't please one?" "I just like people — to have people around to sit in the sun and listen to music and talk and eat when they feel like it," Steve would reply nonchalantly. If any one girl demanded too much attention, she found herself ignored. When came the day that five girls donned shorts to scrub and paint Steve's small yacht in Santa Monica Harbor, Hollywood was agog. "How does he do it? He charms them!" — for all five girls seemed to be having a good time, preferring to be in Steve's company rather than on individual dates. With Sieve, it was all good fun and pleasant companionship. Along came Fay McKenzie. She was an actress and a redhead, and apparently fell madly in love with Steve. For two years these two dated and fought and separated and kissed and made up again, with plenty of resounding romantic headlines. Like all girls, Fay hoped to marry. But Steve's divorce wasn't final and Steve told her he wasn't the marrying kind. Then came her birthday and along with it his final decree, so Steve, because he thought she was one of the sweetest girls, most beautiful besides, and because he was very fond of her, eloped with Fay to Las Vegas. "I think I married on the rebound," said Steve quietly, seemingly unaware that Ruth Roman and other beauties, respectively lunching at other tables, cast frequent glances in his direction. "I don't know why I let Fay in for a marriage with me," Steve said gallantly. "I explained that I was not the kind of a man who liked to live a conventional life, liked to have my meals on time, call on friends, entertain them back, do this and that because it's expected or is good business or subscribe to certain days to do certain things or budget. I like to do things on the spur of the moment, be free to make any decisions that might effect me, without having to stop because of what another person wants to do. I am perfectly miserable across a breakfast table. I like to breakfast alone. And I am moody and like to be left alone at times. If I had loved Fay enough, I wouldn't have minded living her Hfe. She was actually making me do everything any average wife expects from k husband. I felt like I was being led around by the nose — and I guess I resented it. When she started working I was jealous of her work. I didn't want studios to take her from me when I wanted to be with her. Then she left me to go on tour with a show, and, well — that ended it. "My dog Tchaikowsky seems to be the only one to understand me and put up with me. He seldom approves of any one feminine around. He's anti-social. He thinks people are dogs and he's people. "Perhaps I am an idealist with preconceived notions of an ultrawonderful woman. Some men marry, not because they love the girl, but because they have found a girl who loves them and who fits perfectly in their plans. Of course that is a selfish man and marriage to an egotist won't work out. I'm no egotist, so I don't think that is where I'm lacking as a husband. Some women expect to be constantly pampered, humored and assured that they are the most beautiful in the world. I don't go for that type. I once read where 'A man wants a woman .so beautiful that all will admire her, and yet so chaste that none can have her; so gifted that all will respect her, and yet so humble that she herself will acknowledge her husband her superior.' Where can a man find a woman like that.'' Actually, I seem torn between my freedom and the idealistic side of marriage. And certainly, having gone through two marriages, I now am fully aware that it is not only my own happiness at stake, but that of one who may become involved with me." Steve hasn't dated any one girl exclusively for the past two years. He is also not attracted to big name movie stars. His ego as a male is sufficient so that he prefers a girl who looks up to him as "the man" — not just a glorified escort to be led around to Hollywood parties. Therefore, several big name glamour girls not only have been amazed but disappointed to find Steve oblivious to their famous charms and quite silent at jingling their telephones — even when they give him the number. "But think of the publicity you'd get going out and being seen with me," one told him. With Steve, however, it's, "If I'm not worth it on my own, then I'll go without until I am." "I like girls who cook and keep house," Steve said. "I have a tremendous admiration for French and Russian girls. They can whip up the tastiest dinner — and in twenty minutes look chic and smart — as though they'd taken all day getting dressed to go out. I know a cute little Russian girl in New York who cooked the best Russian food. We'd have an early dinner at her place, and then go to the theatre. She was clever with a needle. She would sew up a little dress and hat, and look like she'd just walked out of Hattie Carnegie's. I was proud to be seen with her. The spoiled ones are not for me. "I know," Steve concluded, "that my character and habits are permanently formed. I am thirty-two, and if I should ever marry again, the girl will have to accept me for what I am. It is too late to change me. I wish," he mused, "that I could find some of tlie qualities in one girl that I've known in several. 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