SHADOWED BY FAME.

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

SHADOWED BY FAME.

HOW IT FEELS. Ou the subject of being married to a famous man, well-known wives have been specially interviewed. Lady Malcolm Campbell, whom many people arc inclined to pity when ]ier husbaifd sets oil' ou a record-breaking run, lias very definite views on the subject. >Sho says: ''People often ask me whether being the wife, of a man whoso chief ambition in lifo is to travel faster on land than any other man has ever done before is not a terrible, strain. Well, it is—but I am used to it. I have so often shared in imagination the dangers that are the spice of life to my husband. My husband was the first man to travel at 120 m.p.h. in a car, and ever eincc that time he has been going faster and faster. The result is that in his opinion real speed will not begin until the 300 m.p.h. mark has been reached. That is why lam not really nervous when ho is out breaking records. I have become so imbued with his idea that travelling at two or three miles a, minute, is slow, that I have ceased to wonder at what he will do next. Usually I watch him at work. But when I ecu him travelling all out —hurtling by like a flash of lightning—l am not afraid. But I choose my friends carefully on those occasions, because 'nerves' arc catching. I must admit that I am easily upset if I am with a 'jumpy' person. Some people eay that my husband and all thoso others' who spend much of their lives in recordbreaking on land, or on water, or in the air, are mad. But ''icy do not understand how the love of speed affects their blood. I should not call my husband a normal man, but he is abnormal in the right sense. After all, there is something rather fine in striving to do what no one else has ever done before, though perhaps T am breaking the bounds of modesty in saying this. Speed is lifo to my husband. I often tell him that he will go on breaking and attempting to break records until he has a long white beard, and has to hobble on sticks to and from his ear. No, being the wife of a record breaker is not such a bad thing. A human, or even a mechanical slip may mean serious accident if not disaster. But I have little fear. You see—l know my husband."

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