Also, contrary to current fable, it is not necessary for Mike to receive special dispensation for this marriage. As long as she agrees that her children be raised in the faith, she can be married by the Bishop and still remain a Protestant if she wishes. The possibility has met with opposition from her family and, of course, her own church and Mike is too sensitive a guy to press the point.Īctually, it isn’t necessary for her to become a Catholic in order to be married in the church. It’s true that last year Virginia took instruction from Bishop Sheen, but whether she will become a convert to Catholicism is a decision she is not yet ready to make. “We don’t think it matters what you call yourself,” they feel. In the years of their marriage, the fact that Virginia is a Presbyterian and Mike a Catholic has never been an issue. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, where he and Virginia will kneel and repeat their marriage vows before their good friend, Bishop Fulton Sheen. There is one trip that Michael O’Shea wants very much to take before the baby comes. And that’s what I do when I say I’m just sitting.” It’s a wise girl indeed who savors the present happy moment, who doesn’t take it for granted while it’s here, and then, after it’s gone, looks back on it wistfully. I love my home and my husband and our life together, and my hobby is thinking about them, enjoying them. I know lots of actors and actresses who work harder at one hobby after another than they do on a picture. People are always asking me what I do between pictures, and they think it’s funny when I tell them that I just sit. With “South Sea Woman” and “Devil’s Canyon” finished, she plans no new pictures until after the baby’s birth in the interim months she will stay home rather than seek out fashionable vacation spots. Impending motherhood has already made one welcome change in Virginia’s life-she’s taking a real vacation for the first time in years. “Mary Catherine O’Shea,” repeats Virginia experimentally. “So maybe if we have a son instead, we should call him Parnell in commemoration.” I had an ancestor-ancestress, rather-named Kate O’Shea who had a little something going with a guy named Parnell,” Mike says, eyes twinkling. “I want to name my daughter something simple, like Mary Catherine, and call her Kate. “You know, I spent six months in Ireland once,” said Mike, “and I never met one Derrick or one Kevin. “People are really going nuts with crazy names,” Mike points out.
O’Shea wants same he considers boys overrated by far. O’Shea wants a girl first, largely because Mr. Would they like to have the babies as close together as possible or spaced out? “Spaced out,” says Mike. “Children adjust better when they have brothers and sisters,” she says, “and I think it’s healthier for the parents, too.” Now that the first is on the way, Virginia wants six children. “But,” says Virginia, “I don’t feel different and, even if Mike says I do, I don’t look different to myself.” She does tire more easily these days, though, and is more inclined to lethargy. “A sensible diet, a normal routine of living, and the normal thing happened.” He says it was not medication but common sense that brought about fulfillment of the dream. She still can’t believe it’s true, even though her doctor has been treating both O’Sheas for more than a year with the express purpose of making parents of them. For the coming of the baby they will add to their own charming home in Van Nuys, as soon as they find an architect “to expand the house upward.” Because of the existing floor plan they cannot sensibly spread the house out any further, so a second story will be built over the wing containing Virginia’s bedroom. Not, she explains, that they intend to buy a new one she just likes to look at houses. “And then we went and looked at houses,” adds Virginia. “I went right downstairs, over to the corner pharmacy and got her some calcium for Building Strong Teeth and Sturdy Bones.” What does the happy couple do on such a great occasion? Does the expectant father buy gifts? Do they go out and celebrate with champagne-or go home and hold hands in front of the open fire? “Sure, I bought: her a present,” says Mike. After six childless years of marriage during which they have longed to be parents, Virginia Mayo and Michael O’Shea have been informed that at last they will be-probably in late October. Besides, I’ve been having morning sickness almost every day.”Įnd of scene.
made a mistake,” she answers.Įasily the calmest person in the room is her husband, a big, rough-haired individual named Mike O’Shea. In a chair facing the desk sits a beautiful girl, looking slightly dazed. His nurse says ecstatically, “Isn’t it the most wonderful news?” The scene is the office of a Beverly Hills physician.
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