SINGER'S WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 17

SINGER'S WIFE.

ACTS AS SECRETARY.

MBS. LAWKBHCE XIBBETT.

Tall, dark, with lovely grey eyes, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, wife of the famous singer, is a woman of striking personality, who knows how to strike the happymedium between being the wife of 4 great artist and maintaining her own individuality. She ia her husband's secretary. In an interview Mm. Tibbett revealed the secret of her successful married life with the famous singer. "It is rather like living with Royalty living with someone like Lawrence," she said. "When -we met 10 years ago at the home of mutual friends in California; and he asked me to. marry, him, I had to figure things out before I made up my mind. But Lawrence is so simple a person that it was not very hard. I knew that his career would never rob him of his appreciation of the finer things of life. "There are three of us, really. There is Lawrence and myself, who* are husband and wife, just simple American people i travelling here and there in search of a living, and there is the, third person, a star whom we take around. "Lawrence and I are very proud of our family. I never hesitate "to tell people w© have six sons (three of them are mine), the eldest of whom is 18 years of age. It is a happy home, ours, and Lawrence hates to leave it. So when he goes, away on tour he insists that I should come with him; and Igo because be needs me. And when we are on tour I am mother, wife, secretary, chief fan, main critic, tour agent and overseer of i eating arrangements."