Can Mothers Be Glamorous?

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 34, 3 February 1939, Page 23

Can Mothers Be Glamorous?

ACT is always catching up with fiction in films. The story of "Mad About Music," the Deanna Durbin hit, hinged on the situation of a film star who was forced for glamour purposes to conceal the fact that she was the mother of a ehiid. The film star was played by Gail Patrick. The other day another Gail-Gail Page-scored such a hit in "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" that the authorities at Warners decided there and then to make her | into a glamour girl. ) All went well with the pro- . gramme until one morning Gail arrived on the set with her five-year-old son. Horrified executives promptly told her that glamour girls simply didn’t have five-year-old sons, and solemnly warned hef that the existence of -the youngster must be kept a deep, dark secret. "What shall I do with him? Give him back-to the Indians?" she demanded. Now if Gail, who is married to William Tritschler, a writer, gets glamour, it will have to be as a mother as well as an actress. She refuses to fall in with any scheme to send her angel che-ild into hiding. Tt is high time that this silly film fetish owas exploded. Norma Shearer manages to combine glamour with motherhood and is still doing very nicely. And what about Mama Marlene? .