I cannot claim that it was all a calculated plan! But its result was astonishing! For while I enjoyed the best of times in Paris and Hollywood, Vittorio (like the guests at the party) felt his jealousy stir, and his love and attachment to me grew... He wrote to me saying: "Because of you, my little one, I have conquered myself! I had guarded my bachelorhood, and with it my liberty and my absolute happiness, driving from my head every thought of marriage and its responsibilities.. until you appeared upon my stage and turned my illusions into truth!! Because of you I have come to believe that marriage is the natural foundation of a person's happiness! Without it, every hap-piness is fleeting and passing!"

After a letter so gentle and affectionate, a girl must come down from the throne of her pride and answer with a warm smile, and with a letter no less warm and no less responsive in feeling than his... And so I hastened to meet him again in Rome, and we announced our engagement officially!

But our troubles did not end there... There was his family, and the traditions surrounding it — no one of its members had ever married an actress! This was a situation I had to face with courage, wisdom, and patience, without causing a split in the family, which I could not have borne... And when his family consented to make my acquain-tance and to receive me among its members, I understood for the first time that we are living in the twentieth century! Perhaps what served me in this pass was that I made no pretensions and no attempt to work any change in Vittorio's life. He was called "the Prince in Blue Jeans," and I was happy to wear blue jeans and

remain "Dawn Addams".. behind the camera!.

... And so I won my prince and we lived happily.. Yet our happiness did not come without effort, especially on my side, for I had to strike a balance between our two lives; and perhaps it was luck again that made each of us the complement of the other! We discovered that after the wedding! For I possess a practical, man-aging mind, which Vittorio — generous to the point of extrava-gance — lacks... I discovered that he had a farm and estates on the brink of bankruptcy through his

bad management; I laid my hand on them, and before long their income rose and improved to an extraordinary degree...

Vittorio, for his part, has a phi-losophy of life all his own, which enables him to banish cares and drive them away and to keep his gaiety and cheer. If I surprise him, say, with a request for a trip to Haiti, he is up at once packing the bags and getting ready for the journey, whistling his favorite tunes!!! And I believe that living with him I have learned this philosophy of his, for by nature I carry worries... above all where my ambitions as an actress and as a star are concerned... And I believe our son Stefano will profit from us both, and will have a managing mind... and a merry nature that carries no care.

And finally... I counsel the girl who wins her prince and wishes to keep him not to let him multi-ply his promises, to spare herself the wound caused by her prince's breaking of a promise! Let his gifts be surprises that renew your love and build up the foundations of your happiness... only do not hold him to promises... they may come true — but more often they go with the wind!

Happy am I with Vittorio!

With her son Stefano

Victoria

The very emblem of elegance and taste for all woolen goods — ladies', children's, and men's

The workshop — Sursock Street

Chedid and Mounir Jureidini.

The shop — Souk Ayyas

Camille Jureidini.

In Bhamdoun in summer — Camille Jureidini