Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

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This advertisement is intended only for fat persons who are normal and healthy otherwise and whose fatness is caused by a reduction in the secretion from the thyroid gland (hypo-thyroidism) with accompanying subnormal metabolic rates. No other representation is made as to this treatment except under these conditions and according to the dosage as recommended. We do not make any diagnosis as that is the function of your physician, who must be consulted for that purpose. The formula is included in every package. Start with Marmola today and win the slender lovely figvire that is rightfully yours. And you know too how songs can tear at your heart the way nothing else in this world can and smash it into pieces. Tania reached for my hand under the table and held it so desperately that it hurt. And I thought of the little girl who had clung to her mother's hand and who had been afraid. I'd have given anything I owned to stop that song. For I knew the words and I knew what was coming. Tania couldn't take any more. She got up and ran from the room and I followed her, hating the knowing looks and the little buzz of conversation that followed us as we went. We got into Tania's car and neither of us said anything. Then she began to cry and I put my arms around her knowing all the time that any comfort I could give didn't mean a thing and that I didn't mean a thing either. That nothing at all mattered to Tania but Bill and that Bill was gone forever. "It's over," she whispered at last. "It was so beautiful but it was only a dream. Bill tried, but he couldn't stand out against her. Oh, it's funny, isn't it, thinking I was creating a Galatea and all the time it was a Frankenstein monster that destroyed my love. I should be laughing, shouldn't I?" Hollywood wasn't surprised when Tania went to Reno. But I don't think the breakup of any marriage out there caused more real concern than this one. Everybody loved Tania and Bill. And I think they still loved Bill and felt sorry for him, for anyone could see that he wasn't happy, even though he would sit looking at Alice as if he could never stop looking at her again. But everybody despised Alice. I think all of them knew her for what she was. For no matter what one hears, there is loyalty in Hollywood and don't think there isn't ! . Bill and Alice were seen everywhere together at first, and then after a while we began to see Bill alone and he looked like a man who was seeing ghosts. There were whispers of the two of them having words when they were together and rumors of another man in the case and all the other odds and ends of things you hear when two people seem about to split. And it was strange that it was at the Troc their break-up came, just as it had been there Tania's break-up had come too. They were quarreling and suddenly Bill got up and left. And he didn't turn even when Alice called something after him. The doorman said afterwards that Bill looked as if he had suddenly gone crazy when he got into his car and drove off. But then people are always saying things like that after something has happened. Anyway it wasn't more than a quarter of an hour after he had left that Bill's car smashed into a tree and went rolling over the canyon edge. We read about it in the papers the next morning and for a day or two we didn't know if Bill would live or not. Tania called me from Reno and I met her at the airport when she came and I stayed with her all during that awful night when we thought Bill was going to die. And Tania told me things that night she has never told another living soul. The sort of things any editor would love to print in a story, even if Tania wasn't a One of Ann Sheridan's favorite boy friends definitely is Jean Negulesco, star. But I couldn't write that story. I couldn't use Tania's tears for ink. And I was with Tania that morning in the hospital room when she became Bill's wife for the second time. She had gotten her divorce decree the day before the accident, but that wasn't important. She had never really stopped being 'Bill's wife. And somehow it didn't even make any difference that Bill would be an invalid for years, maybe for life, when you knew Tania was there to look after him. One of Tania's best friends was in tears when she talked to me about it afterwards. "How can she take him back now that he is helpless and is only there because he needs her so desperately? How can she take another woman's leavings?" You see, she thought what the rest of Hollywood was thinking that Bill was so crazy in love with AHce that it was losing her that had made him drive so recklessly that night. But I know how it really was, for that was the story Tania sobbed out to me the night we thought Bill was dying. You see, she felt it was her fault. For Bill had called her on the telephone an hour after she had gotten her decree and told her he was breaking with Alice that evening. And because Bill is a soft guy, with a heart that can pity even a woman he has grown to hate he asked Tania what he could say to the girl so that he would not hurt her too much. And Tania had told him what everybody knew and what Bill really knew now, too, that nothing could really hurt Alice very much, that maybe her pride could be hurt but never her heart. And then she had said, "Hurry Bill. Hurry and get it finished and done with. And then come to me just as fast as you can!" The doctors say now it is only a matter of months before Bill will be working again and that he'll be as strong as ever. And I'm the only person outside of Tania and Bill who know of the nursery they've furnished and that they've even picked the name for the baby they are planning to have as soon as Tania can give up her position. That won't be long now, with Bill getting well so fast. Tania is going to save again for the future. Only this time it won't be money she is planning to put away. She knows how little that can mean now. No, the things Tania are saving are the things she can keep in her heart and not in a bank.