2551 Proposals of Marriage

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 14

2551 Proposals of Marriage

TyHILE thousands of girls languish ’’ for husbands, Hollywood screen stars receive thousands of proposals annually, an investigation of the fan mail department at RKO-Radio studios discloses. Sparkling, tltian-haired Ginger Rogers tops the list with 2551 received since the first of January last. Ginger’s proposals come from college boys and from hundreds of children who want to marry her when they grow up. There is a sprinkling of more mature men, and one proposal came from an East Indian potentate. But practically all her offers of marriage are from the youth of the country. Katharine Hepburn, on the other hand, inspires offers of marriage from mature men of a high grade of intelligence. They include professional men. and men of social standing who obviously never before have written a fan letter. They tell her of the inspiration she has furnished them. Miss Hepburn’s proposals hit the one 1 thousand mark just a few weeks ago. Hazel Forbes, heiress to the millions of a national toothpaste concern, gets on an average 1000 proposals a year from men who want to “protect her from fortune hunters.” These men are willing to put up with any kind of hours she may be forced to keep as a result of working in the studios. One man writes: “I don’t care how early you have to get up. so long as you don’t disturb me.” All her proposals come from men who “just want the job of guarding her money from other men.” Beautiful Thelma Todd had 1445 proposals of marriage last year, the majority of them from wealthy foreigners. Of the 2000 proposals received in 1934 by lovely Irene Dunne, one man offered to sell her 10 years of his life as an abject slave if she would settle £lO,OOO on him!