Screenland (Nov 1949-Oct 1950)

If You're About To Be Married — Continued from page 41 came a tomboy. She never wore a dress, but, attired in slacks, joined a group of youngsters who careened about the neighborhood on bicycles, after school hours. Along came a young man of twentythree, student of engineering, who looked like a movie star much admired by Corirme. She was immediately smitten. He must have felt that Calvet charm, for he began taking her out. "I wonder if that young man and my family got together?" pondered Corinne, over a stalk of buttered celery. "After a few weeks he gave me a pair of beautiful nylons. I wore them under my slacks, but no one could see them, so I had to buy a dress and a pair of high heeled shoes to show them off. I found I rather liked myself in skirts. Up to then, I carried no purse, but tomboy fashion, I tucked my money in my belt. The youngman next gave me a lovely bag. It was so nice I had to get a compact and comb, which I faithfully used. In six months, from a tomboy, I turned into the most sophisticated girl you ever saw! "How wise was my family! If they had attacked me directly, crying, 'Why don't you wear dresses? You look deplorable in trousers. Your hair is a disgrace!' I would not have listened. I am a little strong for a woman . . . jierhaps because I had to fight for something to eat." Corinne confides that, at this stage, she was a tempestuous, excitable little creature. When she was about fifteen, a boy friend, her first, sent word that he must break at date, as he was ill in bed. All compassion, Corinne gathered up hard-toget viands and darted to his flat, intent on cooking the sick man a good dinner. "I could hear that the shower was on when I arrived," she recalled. "His evening clothes were laid out, ready to put on, I could see, as I peeked into his bedroom. He had another date!" Eyes flashing, she went furiously to the closet where his clothes were hanging and took all the trousers out of it, not missing one pair. The trousers on her arm, she walked out of the house, leaving a note, "I'm sure you couldn't have any other dates tonight, and you won't need any trousers to stay in bed and cure your cold." She is, she insists, much calmer now. There are times, however, when things go wrong and she is less calm. "Then I run home to Johnny. He takes me in his arms and carries me for five minutes high above the floor, so that presently I relax and feel that all the unpleasantness is far beneath me. If that does not help, we go fishing. When I see ocean waves roll in, one after another, never ceasing, eternal, I think: 'This has gone on for thousands of years; it has outlasted many disasters. What is so important about my trouble? If I can give joy or release tears to people, that is all I want.' "Fishing teaches patience, which I need. It used to be that if I had to wait fifteen minutes, I wasn't nice to the one who kept me waiting. Now, they can make me wait on the set all day, and I do not care!" John Bromfield was a commercial fisherman before he became an actor; fishing has become his avocation, and he feels he could not do without it. "When I realized his love for fishing, I knew I must learn to share it or I would be shut out of an important part of Johnny's life," said Corinne, earnestly. "At first I could not stand the smell of raw fish; I was seasick as soon as I set foot on a boat, but I went with him. The first fishy whiff sent me running to the cabin, violently ill. Then I'd come out and fish; again, I'd head for the cabin, come back, and stagger oft" once more. For six weeks this went on. Then suddenly, I was used to the smell, could take the boat's roll, and began to enjoy myself. Now I am worse than Johnny about going fishing!" Only recently Corinne was shocked by the views of an American bride-to-be. "She was a feminist," explained the young actress. "She thought women should have equal rights with men. Since she and her bridegroom-to-be both worked, and they would live in a small apartment, there would be some housework to be done. 'I will do the dishes the first night, but he must do them the second,' she told me. 'We will divide the work. I don't see how a woman can let a man walk over her, and I don't mean to let mine.' " 'But don't do that!' I warned. 'You will lose him. He does not want to marry another man, and if you are equal, you will be another man to him.' But she would not listen. . . . "I would never ask Johnny to do dishes. Because he likes to be with me, he misses me if I am in the kitchen, and comes in to help. If I ask him, it is his duty and he hates it. Now he is happy to help. A woman should make her man happy. You cannot take and get — only if you give, you get!" The moment Corinne saw John Bromfield, she was attracted. Because of an accident, she was muffied to the eyes in bandages, yet he was quick to feel her charm. She was not certain of this, and confesses, disarmingly, that on their first date she wore a dress with a daring neckline. John still insists that this measure was entirely unnecessary, but Corinne worried, believing that she liked him more than he liked her. "You see, Johnny already had a girl when we met," she confided. "For a time, there were two of us. He spent the better part of six days with me, but once a week he had a date with the other girl because he didn't like to hurt her. I would sit and fret over what he was doing or saying, what was happening, and at length I could no longer stand it. I said: 'Johnny, you must choose between us. I will go away with friends over the weekend, and you can think it over and decide which of us you prefer. You cannot have us both.' I was terrified, but I went away, and he spent the weekend trying to find me. 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