MARRIAGES OF FILM STARS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3419, 13 February 1936, Page 3

MARRIAGES OF FILM STARS

WHY SO MANY ARE UNHAPPY.

Plain reasons why film stars are doomed to unhappy marriages are given by a well-known psychologist, Dr. Boris Norkovin, who knows many of them. Suppose, he says, a woman marries an actor who is adored by all her sex. She will resent this “mass adoration.” Like the proverbial valet, she will know her husband as a normal, capricious human, and she will be unable to understand the “tremendous waves of interest and vicarious love he enjoys.” Disillusionment is rapid. She sees younger and prettier women gathering round her man, jealousy flares up, and the marriage is soon over. The position is even worse, says Dr. Norkovin, when an ordinary man marries a world-famous star. Now suppose two stars wed. Dr.

Norkovin declares: “The couple have no real personal life. They are entirely self-centred. Neither gives ll anything to the other. “The man, giving romance to mil--lions, gets none for himself. The woman, adored by her public, becomes. 1 an image with which no man: could long l’emain in love.” Divorce follows. If one or other can fall in love and keep in love with the real person to whom they were first attracted, thenand then only can stars win happiness; in marriage. Generally speaking, says Dr. Norkovin, “unhappiness in their personal lives is the price film stars pay fi&r the glory of their public careers."