Hollywood, Mar. 9.
Keeping a screen husband in private Although she, is a bachelor girl off the screen, Rosalind Russell is authority for the statement, for she has had much experience as a screen wife. She has had a; husband in her last four pictures and currently-appears as the wife of - Montgomery. in Metroer's "Fast and Loose.
(ni have had no experience asia Teal wife, so I cannot advise a e wife on how to hold her man," Miss Russell admitted. "But I do know how: to keep a screen husband happy.
"Of course, it is not as difficult as the real thing, I do not have to worry about giving my husbands the kind of breakfasts they prefer nor do I have to get them off to work in time, "My first duty of the day is not keep my screen husband waiting impatiently for me on {he sound state, and to greet him with a cheerful good morning. The perfect screen wife, too, should know all her lines ror the day, thereby saving he: husband the irritation, of Jong, tedious rehearsals. She must have her make-up ın perfect order, likewise her hairdress and wardrobe, to avoid other delays.
"She must treat him as her equal and must not try to monopolize those scenes that do not. belong to her. Trying to steal a scene that does not belong to her will annoy a screen husband more than anything. else; And she must not, when she is delivering her lines while she is out of Camera range, mugg or make faces that will cause him to slow up in his lines. It not only may create a Screen divorce—but his confusion might run up production costs by forcing retake of the scene,"—United Press.
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