Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

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S©noM AND GOMORRAH 155 Rex was not at home, Clara explained, having gone into Hollywood to take rait me of Clara's investments. "Rex takes car ery detail," she confided to me. "as a true husband should. I really think that it is lies; t<» let a man handle money and other incidentals, and the woman should take care of the home I believe that the principal reason there are so many di vorces among the Hollywood couples is clue to the fact that the wife insists on entering her husband's domain." "Do not misunderstand me," went on the great star whom Elinor Glyn called the "It" girl. "1 believe that a woman should enjoy all the rights, of a man. I believe in emancipated woman. But women should know how to use their new freedom. I am very careful not to poke my nose into Rex's cabbage patch and he never attempts to interfere in mine. That is why our life together is so beautiful. Rex and I are equal partners in our marriage venture. He has his duties, and I mine, and we respect and admire each othei work. "What do I consider my duties and what are his' Well, I believe that a woman should flatter a man's ego by intrusting to him those affairs which he has for ages considered hi> Rex has the management of my entire fortune, and I love him all the more for it." And let me say right here, patient reader, that Clara Bow is Holly