Evening star., 1943-03-02
Addenda on the Grable>Raft
Betty Seems to Be Gnawing Her Nails
Waiting for a Husband to Materialize

Is no question OF either Of them
going out solo with any one else.
But" persists Betty plaintively,
Il do want to get married and have
kids. The way it is now it's hard
for me to meet any other man.
How can I? Even II I saw a man
who was attractive I could hardly
60 to George and say: Look, I saw
some one who seems nice, and I
can't see you this evening" It's
awful, isn't it? AS my mother says,
I'm the luckiest girl in the world,
I have everything I want, but I
have the worst luck in men! When
I got my divorce Urom Jackie
Coogan) in 1899 I couldn't wait for
the interlocutory decree to be final
so I could get married again. The
year went so slowly! So when it
was over I had to get myself in this
fix, where I'm In love with a guv
who Is in love with me, but we can't
get married."
Bettys mother says that perhaps
George is too old for her daughter,
even II he were free to marry her.
He IS ~. which Is almost double
Betty's age.
But" she says swiftly in his de-
tense, "he's so kind, and there's
nothing Of the ham about him. I
don't like the majority OF actors
because they are always talking
shop, but George doesn't. He's seri-
Gus, and he's making me serious.
When We first met was livelier and
more scatter Drained. That's why
he liked me, but he's changed me
without realizing he's done it. I'm
two different girls now. When
George Is out of town I 60 back to
my pals and we laugh and have fun
and jitterbug. Betty usually takes
group OF soldiers from the Holly
wood Canteen after it closes at
midnight to the Palladium, where
they jitterbug for another hour.)
But George doesn't like those
places" says Betty. HE likes to
dance, but quietly and seriously,
and in a swank setting like the
Mocambo."
Miss Cradle recently made the
10-best list OF box-of champions
(no, we are not getting away from
the love theme). And she is modest
regarding her triumph. She puts
1t down to the current popularity
OF musicals, but that's only part Of
it. The rest is divided between the
Cradle personality and the Cradle
torso.
I'm not ambitious" she tells me.
1T was my mother who wanted me
to be success on the stage and in
the movies. But now she says she
Is satisfied, and she'd like me to
marry and have babies. How l
envy Alice Faye! She has every
thing want!" (The everything is
a husband and baby daughter
Il have an astrologer," concludes
the blond Betty, 'and she told me
two years ago that I'd be married
by last May! Now she says I'll be
married by the end of this year."
I wouldn't be at all surprised
particularly if Mr.. Raft happens to
read this column.
Xxx
Greer Carson Is down on the
books for 'Drivin' Woman" after
Madame Curie" Z. Ruth Hussey
expected back in town to start
work In MY Name IsaRuth" with
handsome Pierre Aumont . They
are .making a sequel to Simone
simon's Cat People" 1t is "the
curse OF the cat people" Simone
will not be in the second movie.
She Is tired OF being a cat. You
can look for an increase In horror
pictures. Nearly every studio has
one or more in preparation. They
are supposed to help people escape
from the realities Of present-day
conditions. :. And you can also look
for an increase in movies with a
strong woman" angle. RKO has
several in preparation. among them
Government Girl for Olivia de
Havilland, Gibson Girl' for Ginger
Rogers, and Portrait of q Lady"
and "Prodigal Woman"
The press agents did their best
to make a phony romance between
Enrol Flynn and Ann Sheridan. But
they were foiled because Ann re-
turned to Hollywood to star in Might
Shift" the day before Enrol Flynn
left for Mexico City. Better luck
next time, boys.
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