JEANETTE MacDONALD.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18874, 18 February 1933, Page 16 (Supplement)

JEANETTE MacDONALD.

PRESENTS HER FIANCE. While Miss Jeanette MacDonald, the film star, -was explaining to a Dally Mail correspondent at Cap d’Antlbes, on the French .Riviera, her plans for her marriage—not to Maurice Chevalier, but to Mr Robert Ritchie, of Philadelphia—Chevalier was revealing, In a talk to the Dally Mail by transatlantic telephone from Hollywood, that he had known of their engagement for three years. “My marriage to Maurice Chevalier is quite out of the question, for the simple reason that I am engaged to marry the gentleman whom I now present to you, Mr Robert Ritchie, of Philadelphia.”

This reply was made by Miss Jeanette MacDonald to a question asked her, when she was the guest of honour at a dinner given at the Restaurant des Ambass'adeurs here by the Marquis and Marquise de Meyronnet de Saint-Marc.

I went to Cap d’Antibes and found Miss 'MacDonald sitting near the famous bathing pool. She had standing guard over her an immense sheepdog called Captain. "As to Maurice Chevalier," she said to me, “you must remember that simply because one works for weeks and months with a man it does not necessarily follow that one has to fall in love with him. "Maurioe is the nicest of men. He is clean cut and helps one tremendously on the way. Wedding Date Unoertaln. “We have always been good friends and we have worked together immensely well, and eaoh of us has respect for the other's ability, for In the soenario I have never stolen his thunder nor has he tried to tread on my toes. “Now as I know nothing of his love affairs he knows nothing of mine; so there you are. “As you know, we”—'Miss MacDonald and Mr Ritchie—-"are both Philadelphians, and we have not yet deoid’ed where we shall be married; but it will be on the other side of the water, either in the United States or when we land In Quebec In the spring. “I am here free from noise and work. My only diversion is riding every morning through the foothills, and I love to explore places new to me.

“While we are on the subject of myself and my plans, I am seriously thinking of making a concert tour. I

shall deoide in a few weeks. I ©an sing In Frenoh, German, Italian, Spanish, and English."