TO MARRY FILM STAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20787, 5 August 1929, Page 7

TO MARRY FILM STAR.

' EX-KAISER’S GRANDSON. CROWN PRINCE OBJECTS. Another chapter in the romantic and matrimonial troubles of the Hohenzollern family has been written. Following the sensational marriage of Princess Victoria, the ex-Kaiser’s sister, to Alexander Zoubkoff, a dish-washer in a Russian restaurant, comes the news that Prince Louis Ferdinand, a sou of the former Prince, is to marry Miss Lil Damita, the film star. The engagement has not been officially

announced, but his father admitted to an English interviewer that it was true. You English-speaking people have an excellent proverb,” he added, “that one cannot oat ones cake and have it, and that is what my son will have to realise if he insists on marrying a woman who is not his equal in birth and station.” Have you any definite wishes regarding yom; son’s future wives? ” he was asked. “ Besides being as pretty as possible, they should also have other points,” he said. But, joking apart, I have what I suppose many people would consider oldfashioned ideas as regards marriage. “I think a ‘mesalliance’ is liable to work out as a ‘ mere mess,’ and is rarely a real alliance, if you will pardon the pun. There have been plenty of them

lately, and my own family has furnished a lamentable example, leaving my aunt ruined and miserable. “ I believe in equality of station; marry, ing in your own set, your own circle. It might be perfectly admissible and normal for one of my boys tm marry a woman, not necessarily of royal blood, but of aristocratic or noble birth, no matter what her nationality provided that he obtained the consent of the Kaiser, whom we all consider as the authoritative head of our family. ' “Without such consent we could not approve of the marriage. Royal princes have married women who were not of royal birth, for instance, the. Duke of York, and as long as the marriage is one of quality and is accepted by tbe other members of the Royal Family which the

bride or bridegroom is entering, there is, in my opinion, no objection to be made. “ Princess Yolanda of Italy is another case in point. But as regards'this particular marriage, if it should ever be seriously intended on both sides, I should oppose it on principle also, because, leaving apart for the moment' the question of birth, I do not believe in marriages founded on passing passions. ' Mere passion is no basis for the life partnership and social contract * as which marriage should be regarded.”