THE WOMAN WITH A THOUSAND CHILDREN!

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 23 July 1920, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE WOMAN WITH A THOUSAND CHILDREN!

Miss NORMA TALMADGE,

who has been married on the film over four hundred times.

Miss Norma Talmadge is one of the most interesting actresses on the shadow stage. The fact that she has been married over four hundred times is alone sufficient to make her women tereS * in f> iu the eyes of most At least, she had been married over four hundred times when I last saw her; I expect now she has reached her half-thousand. She can speak with authority on marriage at any rate, and I imagine she would not agree with Mr. Punch when he gave his famous advice to those DorPt t 0 6ntei th 6 happy state—

Ot course, she has a Very large tamily, and she says—that as far as she knows—she has succeeded in bringing up her children successfully. There are three hundred and sixty-five of them. This should make even the Crown Prince envious.

, T As Probably everybody knows, Norma Taimadge has a charming and brilliant sister, nearly as talented as herself—Constance. But though both sisters are film stars and love their work and have much common, yet in one respect they differ. Constance confesses that she dislikes men. After all, this is not exactly surprising, is it? Fancy havmg five hundred brothers-in-law. It is almost needless to say that Norma s beauty is of the brunette type with the dusky mystery of a tropical night. She has always been very interested in all questions relating to women and their freedom, she began getting married when she was fifteen years old—on the screen of course. Perhaps I ought to have stated that ail her marriages wore made on the screen—very moving matrimonial affairs, too, some of them. And, of course, her children are all little movies too, shadows that .come and go, live for a brief hour or so, giving an A f e ars to the countless millions who see them as they flit across the screen. Norma’s real solitary husband is Mr. Joseph Schenck, and she confesses to lavishing all the affection left over from him on a small do.g called Dinky. Nevertheless, Miss Talmadge when she is in the studio, takes her five hundred husbands and her three hundred and sixty-five children seriously. It would indeed be hard to imagine a more moving mother even if she does occasionally forget the names of her husbands and the ages of her children.