Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-26

do these days leads to boredom or out
right disgust. Being apart for long
periods, as happens in the theatrical
world and often when the wife is
business or professional woman, gives
each the bachelor habit and mutual
interest dies.
Possibly the worst of all marriage
wreckers is interference by outsiders.
Husbands and wives are often nst al
lowed to work out their lives in their
own way. Relatives won't leave them
alone. Mothers. mothersin-law and
friends mix In and cause hopeless sit
uations. Sometimes the exigencies of
public life rob a couple of their happi-
ness. There is no such thing as com
plete freedom Of action. Everything
we try to do Is hampered more or
less by what we owe others
Because of these and hundred
other things that make one American
marriage In four a failure, we GER
tainly ought to make 1t easy to get
divorced. When you're through,
you're through, that's all, and you
| should have divorce for the asking and
without having to give any reason at
ALL"
We asked the lovely Natacha what
she'd do in case only one party TO the
marriage wanted divorce and the other
| wanted to go on loving and trotting
in double harness.
Grant 1t, anyhow" said she. TITS
one of the chances you take when
you marry, and you should be ready
for it. It's all the more reason why
everything from health certificate to
bank balance should be required be-
fore marriage, and then only short.
term contract be given on approval,
to be renewed il mutually desired or
Cancelled, and one more chance given
to make q permanent choice"
'Oh, Just one more chance gfven?"
Well" the divorced and widowed
partner OF Valentino spread both slen-
der hands wide, with eyes to match;
well. otherwise it would be just
series Of 'on approvals, a sort of legal.
ICED free love. And that would GER
tainly not be constructive"
Miss Rambova doesn't like the I'm
terlocutory decree" feature of divorce.
She thinks once you're through.
you're through" and six-month
wait before a second marriage can
take place leads to hardship and
temptation.
All the time we talked it seemed
almost as though the adored Rudy's
influence were somehow in the room.
Perhaps it was that big photograph
upon the piano, with the WOnderTul
eyes turned toward us. Perhaps it
was the knowledge that Miss Ram
bova regards Rudy as just as much
alive as he ever was, just as keen to
work and to progress and to shine in
his field as overland that the field Is
there, beyond our sight, but there
without any doubt. and to be reached
by those whose peculiar sensitiveness
make a bridge OF thought.
Rudy himself was psychic and
great lover of the occult. Miss Ram
bova tells US. During the year Dr so
of their marriage they experimental
often through mediums and had many
startling revelations and prophecies.
Rudy had the gift of automatic writ
ing. too, and he and Natacha spent
hours at a time deciphering the mes
sages received from an old and loved
friend in the spirit world
Miss Rambova speaks always of
Rudy with tenderness and understand
ing. One senses that, proficient actor
as he was. he was in some ways quite
child, and that the beautiful young
woman with the magenta turban loved
him with just a touch also Of the
maternal.
:"No one" she says simply. was
ever more devoted to Rudy than I
was, and still am. Which makes me
add from deep, deep feeling of its
truth that no marriage can be true
marriage without spiritual love, for
other love vanishes. is often destroyed
by persons and by circumstances. But
love that is of the spirit lives on"
tCopyrsht. 1877