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IF MARRIAGE IN HOLLYWOOD BY-PASSES THE SLOW TEST AND AIMS FOR A QUICK DIVORCE, COULD IT BE THAT OUR STARS ARE SIMPLY IMMATURE?
By MICHAEL SHERIDAN
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mww are legalized adultery! Too often, the younger stars seem unable to take money, glamour, excitement in their proper perspective . . . and the eventual and inevitable result is chaos."
Harsh as those words may sound, this is the opinion of columnist Virginia Chumley, whose nation-wide word on about anything and everything from modes to marriages is taken by the American public with no little seriousness.
"Nine out of ten of the young stars seem to believe," she goes on, "that because life is different in Hollywood, marriage is also different. The theory seems to be that, 'Oh, well, why not try it, anyway? If we don't get along, we can always get a divorce.' "
From such a habit of mind comes the grim accusation: legalized adultery! And it isn't the first time that the marriage manners and customs of the movie industry have come in for some pretty strenuous dressing-down . . . from the press, civic organizations, religious bodies.
Not so long ago, an English newspaper tersely remarked, at the latest conclusion of a union of a seemingly happy film pair, "Out there it would seem that marriage by-passes the slow test and aims for divorce as the quick goal."
Thus, with the eyes of the world on Hollywood, it's no small surprise that there should be a close analysis, plus much criticism of the marital ways and means of the movie colony — with the pivot of attention on romance in the adolescent manner.
How enduring is young love?
There are two answers, whether it concerns Hollywood or any other town in the United States. Marriage in the motion picture industry isn't any different from marriage anywhere else, if it's to be a successful marriage. Everywhere there's the need for the basic essentials in choosing a mate.
The most relevant question seems to be: can the unions of people like Jane Powell and Geary Steffen, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding, June AUyson and Dick Powell, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Ann Blyth and Dr. James McNulty stand the gaff of that turbulent hullaballoo of, "Is it on ... or is it off. . . ?"
Can the incessant wonderment of the fans, the constant probing by both psychologists and the press (who pry unrelentingly into their lives like a puppy worrying a bone) can all of this make or mar today's modern romances of the young stars? (CONTINUED ON PACE 54)