A SECRET MARRIAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 17 (Supplement)

A SECRET MARRIAGE.

VIOLINIST AND FILM STAR. HOLLYWOOD RESENTFULHollywood (says the Motion Picture Classic) is feeling both resentful and boastful. Resentful, because Florence Vidor didn't confide to its gossip-loving cars the fact that she was going to be married, and because when she and Jascha Heifctz arrived in town they got off at a water-tank on the outskirts instead of allowing themselves to be met at the

station with camera and reporters and other time-honoured ballyhoo. Boastful, because at last a movie star has made a distinguished marriage and has chosen a man whose fame is greater than her own. A home-town girl has made good. Made Herself What She Is. Florence Vidor came from a small backwoods Texas town and made of herself precisely what she was determined to be: a poised and self-pos-sessed woman of the world, well read, and with a cultured taste in music. Her accent falls, with its hint of preciousness, oddly on Hollywood ears. It is, they say, a deliberate thing. Not more than seven years ago a New York critic, meeting Florence Vidor for the first time, wrote of the "disappointment one felt when she spoke." From that moment, it is said, Florence set about cultivating a low voice and losing her prairie pronunciation. Jascha Heifetz is a celebrity. He has travelled the world over and seen and been feted by beautiful women everywhere—and he has come to Hollywood to choose his wife. Therefore Hollywood is proud. "How had they managed to keep their wedding a secret?" an interviewer asked Heifetz. The violinist answered suavely. These things could be managed by special dispensation. They had wanted to escape the publicity of a Hollywood wedding. Miss Vidor had

given her maiden name, and he his real name, Keifetz. They had been married with only Sophie Breslau. the singer, and his attorney, as witnesses, in a hoi el room. They kept it a secret for five days; even little Suzanne Vidor (daughter of Florence Yidor and her divorced husband, King Vidor, film director) had not known. Will Their Careers Clash?

And their future—how would they manage their two careers? It would he difficult, Florence admitted; Mr Heifctz was leaving in a week for a concert tour and she was beginning a picture—and weren't the flowers people had sent beautiful? And this basket of vegetables artfully arranged like a French bouquet with the card, "You can't live on love alone," was clever, wasn't it? So amusing, so delightful, so kind of you all to have come

And the interviewers were out in the hot California noon, still speaking in subdued and refined tones 1 "Doesn't she somehow make you feel big and bouncing and crude?" said a magazine writer not noted for her inferiority complex.

"And think of it—a year ago everybody was saying Vidor was through," a newspaper man added. "Her contract wasn't going to be renewed, she was buying a bouse in Hawaii to retire to. And now she's doing brilliant pictures and has married a front page guy. You can never tell, .can you? Not in this town."