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By LOUIS REID
John, back in 1933, with his first bride, Josephine Saenz of Dominican Republic.
John and Josephine were happy for eleven years. They had four children.
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TYPICAL AMERICAN HE-MAN JOHN WAYNE HAS YET TO FALL IN LOVE WITH AN AVERAGE AMERICAN GIRL
Try to picture strapping he-man John Wayne strumming a sentimental guitar in a soft serenade beneath a senorita's window! It just isn't possible.
Nor can one envision him tossing roses and impassioned words up to a dark-eyed charmer on a moonlit balcony, or practicing the arts of hand-kissing and eye-rolling in the legendary below-the-Rio Grande manner.
He definitely doesn't suggest that kind of lover.
He just doesn't seem the kind of suitor that south-ofthe-border belles would give two twirls of a fan for.
Certainly not this actor who has been so clearly identified in the public mind as a strong man eternally pitted in a great struggle against the sea, against the dangerous frontier, against the enemy in wartime.
Yet, there's the impressive, incomprehensible fact. John Wayne is Hollywood's all-time champion in his appeal to Latin-American women.
The 6 feet, 4 inch ex-football herb, as American as his native Waterloo, la., now the screen's No. 1 box office star with an income of $500,000 a year, is filmdom's chief romantic exemplar of the Good Neighbor Policy.
For a Main Street fellow who was once called Duke Morrison it comes under the head of the incredible.
In his hemispheric goodwill over a score of years, the
big 46-year-old symbol of the big outdoors has escorted two Latin-American girls to the altar.
And he is now courting a third, notwithstanding the failures of his two marriages.
All are striking brunette beauties. There is no record that Gentleman John has ever preferred a blonde — a northern, so to speak, blonde.
Wayne's first wife was Josephine Alicia Saenz, daughter of Dr. Jose S. Saenz, former consul for the Dominican Republic in Los Angeles. She divorced him after 11 years of marriage, and was given custody of their four children.
His second wife is Esperanza Baur, Mexican screen star. Her divorce suit is pending. The couple have thus far failed to agree on a settlement.
"I tried every way to make a go of our marriage," he said recently. "I've gone as far as I can in this matter. I'm still hoping we will reach a settlement before the trial so there will be as little scandal as possible for everyone's sake.
"We tried to get together and settle before filing the divorce papers, but we didn't make it."
Wayne said he had offered Chata — his nickname for Esperanza ( a Spanish word (CONTINUED ON PAGE 62)
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