Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-11-09

on tina screen The pair q you al q !
sudden want % So decent9
what DO you -decent7" Nax
lung ia his teeth. We've never n@ez
4 anything else. / never looked st an
i other man. either before or after
Il met Raymond. Az for him, sl1e haaee
head to one side, well. as far as knuN
/ he's done the best he can. We couldn't
get married Ia the beginning because
1 he had q wife Ia France She w@E oa1
enough to be his mother and he meves
saw her after he left Paris. But size
/ wouldn't let him of when We fell IL
to do? Commit haeamy2@
'Listen-you think I'm criticizsnE
1 you? Not a DIT. You we're young and
you were on the stage and you hadn
/ any money. That means you were JUS
I q pair o. young iackaSses. So you Sc
l to live together and say you're Mr.. and
Mrs. That's your business. But what
you do now-thats my business"
! Try to stop uSl The minute Ray
n1ond heard his wife was dead we made
arrangements to fly 70 Las Vegas to
morrow. We thought you'd be glad 70
act as witness"
sure. I'd be glad 10 advertise that
my pure young star OF the silver sheet
whose picture is In every high school
girls bedroom has been living IN san
with the popular hero whose devotion
to his supposed wife makes every wom-
an in the United States believe mar
riage amt so bad after all That would
why pubIicize tf Wen Just sneak
Off"
pipe dreams. There amt no place
on Gods green earth you could sneak
to. They'd smell it out before tbs
preacher got to bless you. my chill
dren' And what nuts for the chatter
squirrels"
eve won't 60 to Las Vegas, then.
Wen find some place where they can't
smell it otn.
you'd have to sign your names TO
the register, wouldn't your Or did you
want to be spliced under an aliasF
That's 1T" Nan j1kilantly slapped
her thigh. That's the trick Wen get
married under our real names. Mines
Annie Ryan and Raymond'S is Ray
mond Homard. He never used Homaro,
because tranIated It means lobster"
You're telling mel You think that's
news? Margery Ewing had it all pat
ready TO print in her column the min
ute we starred YOU. Cost US a new car
to shut her up But not soul knows
you never went through q marriage
ceremony. And nobody's going to. Not
if I know what I'm doing"
How do you think you can stop us2''
Just the way you put that blank
contract out Of commission. Only the
one tear up has your name on It, i" he
Nan took a deep breath. So deep
that it left her momentarily without
speech.
last.
Busting the morality clause wide
open is plenty OF reason to dare. LOOK
what we did TO Duffy when he misbe-
hayed. If you degrade and ridicule pub
lie morals and the motion picture IN
dustry By letting the world know you
never were married that finishes you
both" His voice rose and fell as in an
incarnation. WED have TO let you out
with a whole lot Of ballyhoo about how
Won fooled us and there amt another
company would sign you"
you forget" Nan parted, we came
from the theater. We can go back TO It,
with everybody laughing their head
off at YOU? Not q chancel" MIR, Emil
Graystone 1eveled himself out of the
chair and squared his shoulders with
a shake much as q rfinO raises him
self from deep water. Nov, be sensi-
bic. We've been arguing about this for
an hour and we don't get anywhere. II
wasn't afraid even Of having my own
publicity man know something I'd
phone Harold to come over and ten you
there's nowhere to gel"
you're penalizing decency this min |
lite" Mans voice was thick and all OF
a sudden she looked an unhappy child. |
Mr.. Graystone's indignation dissolved
into sympathy.
ssr1ow-now, listen. I'm q married
man myself. Say-wouldnt ike 70
see YOU kids do Just what you WanJT
Certainly would. But you can't do 1t.
You can't get away with getting mar
RED tomorrow when every picture fan
in the world thinks you're married al
ready five years. We got TO consider
your public, and we got TO CONSIDER
your careers And most OF all we got
10 consider the industry" Mr.. Gray
stone again mopped MS roreneao anu
reached for the neglected mint Julep.
aYo1I tax II over with Raymond when
he comes in from the studio He II see
sense. And for Gods sake don't 90
ANYTHING crazy" he flung out his
hands. $50 what2 Everybody says you're
Agr. and Mrs. You stay this way i
with which ultimatuHn he finished
the iTlep. patted Mans shoulder. She
shook off his hand But before sne
could cav another word MIR. GrayStone |
simultaneously took his straw hat ana
his departure. he did not even turn
to look at the diminutive star as ms
car swung past the French WINDOW
where she stood with brows meeting
and lips like a scarlet slash IN her
piuuant face. He kept an intent gaze
on the beds and red tulips which gayly
bordered the driveway. If she caIeo
MIN back the whole unpleasant session
might have to be gone through again
and again, like a story conference, iar
into the night.
Some two hours later Raymond La
MARI dashed up In his cream coloreo'
silver trimmed roadster. IL was SIX
thirty, following one Of those soggy
DAYS when haze hung over the Calfor-
MIA hills and seeped through the WaIs
like a wet blanket over the set where
he had been at work since early morn
ing. The merciless studio lights had
made the sitting atmosphere stih more
Ia