Show I j Q s 's k M Z ela L g A 4 CN I I. I Louise Brooks who became Mrs Edward Sutherland about J f jr w s t three ree months ago says Im no authority Neither is anybody a Is It the First or the thep j h p ii r c t L p k r L Second or the Fifth pP r ty a j Ab 7 x 1 or Is It lIt EVER EVERY Y V YEAR Heres Here's s What Some x The year is not the true test A says Neil Hamilton but it is T lJ success which h applies the acid 3 7 e u a f Of 0 f f your L our i I Favorite 11 to the matrimonial bond 1 By Alice L L. Tild Tildesley sley WHAT is the dangerous year of married married married mar mar- ried life What is the time the two who have vowed to take each other ther for better or worse are most likely to conclude that it was decidedly for w worse Film stars who have journeyed along the path that leads from the ceremonial altar have discussed the subject with m me me and many and varied are their ideas Lew Cody insists that its it's not a dang dangerous dangerous dan dan- g r us year at all its all its it's a dangerous mm- mm minute min min- ute ute- and comes at the time that the coni con- con 2 i- i trading p parties pies say I I do nce 19 fOnce Once Y youre you're re over that safely all aU i is well wel declares res Lew who only recently startled Holy H wood by marrying Mabel NoY 01 nd one me mornin morning I use 0 say marriage was n my- my r pet 1 sup that's that all changed now I once said i it would take a Columbus to todis dis w at love love aIly is is-I'm is Im I'm o over oer r all aU g that that to to too a u Some Sonie persons mate makE k marriage difficult for themselves the first year and for fr 1 hs forty years there fter n Others have the c 4 t f faculty o of fp di le Its It's just one ones e s f. of those 3 ft things things' t ti Pat at t the legion who pick out this that or or specific year as dangerous jy Faith and h jw C iCan any y year year ear that's past be dangerous S I ask l Pa Pat Pate The rhe only dangerous dangeo s ye yet ne fec Y youre you're U e on now If this is IS y t Car then this is your our ear r this is your tenth tenth its it's the the aw t II If ti good ship M nage is of the Ye ye s g gone ne by W a Risky m What at you must lIs do is IS to keep kee-br kee r hands hande h d teady eady on ti the the- steering f 4 id hd watch th the ky y for cl clouds ud cep p yo y g fad ad in a asto sto and do JUs just a a jit it lt m moS ian an n your pa the voyage y tt first year ear mo nore n th 1 one one anch ie fF i i I r ire e Windsor tease J i e rolin mar marBert mar mar- rl 0 Bert Lytell f arcel two years elects ct the fi W rear ear r b because jt s it is t of rea read went ment j m times I J T t c i- i I. I f firs first i S wil tI- tI tI'S S 'S show ow w whether not t 1 o r parsons llE suited to one ai says tK little blond st star r. r Th i uth try s then kihen t to things gd ti t if they th i ai il it is a r t r certain ain eVi evide Jt ee e that the r t re tuly mated I Marriage larr age i is If rious bi busies i i s 's but butr ut tW artIes arties to it cot t not to e the thera- thera r s se rOs cs and their t i n u lY li y are h-e h make a j ersal t tragedy edy out of y y quarrel Let them t. l how how to Pi in that tIia first first year yeara 1 a ay i the vont be dangerous da at atil i. i il i i l- l lot ot of the fist firs year jear but buti t the e very s s day they r the from honey- honey anoon I cries W Wallace Wallce Beery When the wife w first that realizes he g g if the tie coffee has grou grouns in it arid and a that that he eats cant can't r remember member to tobe tobe be polite i lite when's es e's hungry Wh When n he first comes hom home to an an empty house se and J finds she is is' st staying ying late to her bridge club and there ther are only ci crackers and peanut butter utter in m the pantry pantry pantry- The first month mont says R Ruth th Clifford because before marriage th they y have al always always always al- al ways seen seen each ach other at their best if if she c can can n liv live happily through seeing i him bim come come to to breakfast unshaven and r read ad the the paper paper instead of entertaining her if he can triumph over seeing her herin herin herin in a soiled kimono having a difference with the iceman well iceman well theres there's the test I William Boyd and Elinor Fair who met and married during a picture in which they played lovers are among the year first cheering section but Elinor insists that the first three thre br or four days are are the critical time when time when two people are thrown throW together in closest intimacy and s suddenly dc e l discover conflicting tastes and habits Bill thinks that its it's the time between first and second year when marriage marriage marriage mar mar- stops being a new new- game and becomes becomes be comes omes a serious business LU LUR 7 R 9 p j J I sn b F may v VA M t Ta y J 1 J Claire Windsor who has been Mrs Bert Lytell barely two years years believes that possibly the first six weeks will show show j whether whether two two perso persons s are suited and and she is certain certai th that within a year year they they will have learned w whether ethe their theil marriage is to tobe be bea a success success ess Madame Elinor Glyn authority on love and romance says that the end of the first year is dangerous because the sex atti attraction action lasts at least aye a a year r making the parties to the marriage blind to fo one another's another faults but when ihen the honeymoon honeymoon honeymoon honey honey- moon has waned nothing but character can keep the home from The trouble js is that every girl nowadays nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- days enters marriage with ith the idea idea idea- even though subconscious that subconscious that if she doesn't lik like her husband she needn't stay married Here is where character comes in in- in where discipline shows what it can d do do- do for all that is necessary is a a little self self- control and a determination to be as as' as gallant gallant gal gallant gal gal- lant and gay in in bad times as in good TIME oh TIDIE oh you cant can't measure such a athing a athing thing with time cries Victor V Var- Var r- r coni Certainly the most dangerous period in married life comes when h husband husband hus hus- s- s band and wife can no longer see physical al beauty in each other t We must all grow old but if we look for teal real beauty backof back backof backof of the fading flesh age will make no difference The answer is every year says Charlie Ray Theres the time when whenn the thes wife's trousseau wears wears out and nd she she b begins gins to say pensively If we did get invited anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where I couldn't go because wouldn't have anything to wear and he counters with Dont you remember we agreed not to spend any more than so so much much much- Then theres there's the time when the children chil chil- dren if dren-if if any are any are in college and the wife finds herself with nothing to do and Satan or some one makes makes' her president president president dent of a club Or the time his business takes him out of town a lot and each has a string of lones lonesome me evenings to face Or Or if if youre you're out looking for danger you'll find it it If two persons love each other s says ysl Conrad Nagel there is TIO no such thing as asa asa as asa a a a dangerous year If love is is' is lacking every year is dangerous Yes every year year echoes Charlie l Murray rray so long as a w woman woman man is capable of lifting a a rolling pin married married mar mar- ried life is dangerous Thus Thus far Ive I've been able to weather the storm of a number of years with the same wife and weve we've found happiness largely through through- realizing that neither of us is perfect and that we we are both poor marksmen Lloyd Hughes tells me that he has not yet discovered a dan dangerous erous year in his marriage marriage to Gloria Hope but from all he can observe h. h he thinks it probably comes when the married pair are around 60 Go years of age and one of them suddenly suddenly suddenly sud- sud sud sud- denly begins upon second youth Grandmothers bob their hair and begin to do the Charleston laughs Lloyd and that's all right if their husbands want to step too but if he likes the old fireside its it's not so good The same is true if it the man man begins to believe himself a bearcat on the dance floor or a wow with debutantes while she is tending to the grandchildren Shift your gears gears- c carefully when going from first into second year warns R Reginald Denny for in any truelove truelove true truelove love match infatuation will wm c carry rry you through 1 the first t twelve velve months After that high romance must be replaced by bya a more practical regard so t take ke care They say love lasts five years observes observes ob ob- ob serves Norman Kerry so so the sixth year year should be one in in which you should be ready to trea tread t water But if youre you're clever enough to establish some o other her ties ties to to become re real l friends friends you'll you'll live Screen Stars in into xA h doll Hollywood wood Have 6 yr r to Offer on onS S s R r This Subject A y 1 E k c j 1 rI r I rOO c tf ir ji 11 b 4 I Ia a I Lew Cody declares its it's not a year at all but a minute and jj it comes says he when the contracting parties say sayI I will through that year and never know it was dangerous L Louise uise Brooks remarks cryptically According to its it's the first year ac to Casanova its it's the third according to motion pictures its it's the first and every year thereafter Having been married three months Im I'm no authority Neither Neither- N eithe is anybody Francis X Bushman declares that the dangerous time is that fatal day when the wi wife e slouches around in a sloppy kimono or the husband forgets to shave or goes about in suspenders either or both failing to appear at his or her herbest herbest herbest best before the other Then the wife is likely to observe a contrast in a neat and fastidious neighbor or the husband to meet a dainty girl and odious comparisons comparisons com com- pariso s ensue The last six months of the first year is the time your wife begins to wonder w why y she married you argues Edmund Lowe Her new home is beginning to pall and you'd better take her on a trip or divert her attention with golf or do something drastic to prove that youre you're really the hero she thought you if you want the marriage to continue Lilyan who in in n private life is Mrs Edmund Lowe ve listens and laughs No darling you dont don't know what youre you're talking about is her wifely comment Theres no dangerous ye year r in marriage until the first long separation separation separation tion comes If a husband and wife have to survive several months' months time apart the old adage about absence making the heart grow fonder is out Especially in in pictures Just refuse to be parted for more than two weeks and you can laugh at any year ear on the calendar Neil The successful ye year r diagnosed Hamilton Sudden money has its price It brings outside interests and time to spend on them The male member of the family may grow a colossal ego and the lady may become so wrapped up in clubs or society or clinics that she realizes a husband is only a necessary evil and not so necessary at that If they can get through success they will certainly live happily ever after It depends entirely upon the people argues Jack Holt If either is self- self centered the first year is the stormy one If both are lucky happy-go-lucky the year they realize that middle age is around the corner and try to recapture youth is is the one one To the serious couple who strive to save and plan for foi a home and educate their children the dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- period comes when the children are married or out of the nest and all their dreams have been realized There is nothing left to save or plan for then Ricardo Cor Cortez ez has a theory that the danger period is not a certain year b but buta t ta a certain age If one marries under 21 the dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- year should not arrive until at least twelve years of matrimonial bliss have passed says the Latin lover lo If one marries at 25 he will vill h have ve seven years ears of grace If one marries at 30 danger will not lurk for three years marries beyond 35 there is If o one e little possibility of dissension provided one survives the first year comes between 30 The restless age begins begin's to think of ol and arid 35 Then one growing old and desires to cram as of the remaining years much life into as possible If ones one's marriage youth age there is dangerous survives this nothing to worry about for after that from women wish to stray few ew men or the fireside CRUZE believes that every JAMES TAMES married J year is dangerous to some people is hurt by a quarrels or d Everybody misunderstands misunderstands- thoughtless word word-or be some instance to is sure there and the theer I or the other entertains when one separation I cant can't stand this of idea trivial something she says over he or likely very think it over ovel for a But let them stand they can night and they'll see and a lot more that thinks that some danger danger dan- dan Marmont J Percy er n b be found in every year hes he's ger can married trough through sixteen years of lived and without finding it however life sixty without Tha on for thinks he can cango go risks risk particular danger anyway own s We IVe make our says The Percy dangerous year is that unhappy the other forgets that when one or year depends on the happiness of two to lives Clive Olive sympathetic sympathetic understanding says Brook Married life is a a take give-and-take and take who nothing affair Those give take and who give all all fail those fail those nothing lose the respect of their mates the l the fifth year year of of mar- mar June d point says is js the danger nger the because this is Mathis That is romantic love period is over ear the year If successfully passed the love that after is is far more wonderful and comes who whoSo are so many enduring But there So do not have the patience to try to pass this critical time Marriage l being being a gamble as every everyone everyone everyone one will admit says George Bancroft the odd as Ill place my bet on years being beine the most dangerous especiallY dangerous especially Those wishing fifth third and the first write please to take the even years From a personally conducted matrimonial matrimonial matri matri- matri- matri tour I hasten to add th that t there are no dangerous years in in my own case being that kind of a husband and hav hay having haying having ing that kind of a wife The first year is dangerous because of readjustment to a anew anew it is the period new mode of living the third because by that time ch have or come come or not not and and there must be new ew adjustments adjustments adjustments adjust adjust- ments fifth means that either a firm comradeship and loyalty have been established established es es- es or weariness distrust and dissatisfaction dis dissatisfaction satisfaction have crept in So I bet or orthe orthe orthe the odd years years Any takers Copyright by j u e |