Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14

ticola, an estate outside of Char
lottesville. Open house was held
for the press during the shooting and
| the ones who had met Hayden
earlier formed a kind of habit of
going down once in a while to see
how he was getting along with his
lgetting out of the movies.
There were stories that the basic
trouble was that he had fallen in
love with Madeleine Carol tone of
the most natural things in the world
considering what a beautiful, gay
and intelligent person she always
proved to be) and that it was not
working out well. No one was abso-
iutely certain at the time that that
was the real story, but there had to
be some explanation of why Hayden
wanted to run away to sea and that
was a pretty dramatic one as ex-
plantations went.
The f1reflieS were having a con-
vention in Charlottesville that sum-
mer and the subject of Hayden came
up frequently in the glow that cast
over the darkness of those Virginia
nights.
The group was divided, as groups
always have a tendency to be, on
whether Hayden really would quit
the movies after that picture. The
cynics said he wouldn't, but those
who still naiyely believed in human
nature were sure that was his last
go at the movies.
A studio spokesman among the
cynics said he was sure Hayden was
the studios boy for as long as it
cared to keep him. They'll buy
him yacht or something" he said.
And when it comes right down to
1t, the Pacific is as good an ocean as
the Atlantic any day"
The Atlantic Coast men snorted at
that, but just then a waiter in a
white coat came along with some
thing that eased the tension.
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Several months later they had the
last laugh on the Paramount man
when Hayden did quit the movies
in spite Of the yacht and the lure of
the Pacific as an ocean. The laugh
was a bit hollow because the Para
mount man was not there to hear it.
The year was 1941, highly trou-
bled year as every one will remem-
Der without straining. Once Hayden
disappeared, he stayed that way.
For once some one had quit the
movies and made it stick. He
dropped out of sight like a minor
character falling through a trap
door in an Olsen and Johnson must
cal. Paramount never mentioned
him again, and SO far as the record
shows he never mentioned Para
Their parting was not
one gathered, but neither
was it acrimonious.
People had gone on to other
things, even to the point of forget
ting the romance between Hayden
and Miss Carroll. When they final
ly were married it was treated as
quite routine story, much less dra-
matically than such things usually
are.
AS couple, they came back to
washington and some people who
had known them both and liked
them, as they well deserved to be
liked, used to call up now and then
and say they were In town under
the name of MFR. and Mrs. John
which was Hayden's
name before the movies decided to
change it.
Hayden was in the service, where
ne fought good war, and Miss Car
roll was with the Red Cross, doing
an excellent piece of work in her
turn. They biggest ripple they Gre
ated was when Miss Carroll an
nounced that she would not return
to the movies after victory.
That looked like the end, and a |
logical one, to their story.
Strangely though, it was not, and
IS not. Hayden has just signed a
contract with Paramount. He re-
ports for work on April l,