Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-08

lER family didn't want her to 60 on the
stage and she had a most difficult time
getting her first part, four words, my son! my
son" in "Bushido" produced by the Washington
Square Players in New York.
Their common ground is the theater.
In private life they are quite different. Their
successful marriage bellies the fact that like
should marry like. He likes to accumulate many
things; she is not interested in possessions in
fear that in the end they may possess her. He
loves their town house on East River she loves
small cottage they rent up on the Hudson
River He spends his holidays in big cities she
seeks out little village somewhere in Tyrol or
in southern France. She loves to tour the coun-
try; he is impatient with long tours, but will
spend part of the week with her and then fly
back to New York, only to return quickly unless
he is producing play which requires his con-
stant attention on Broadway.
She likes to golf, to play tennis and above
all, to walk. He is not keen about physical exer-
else. They both love dogs.
When he produces a play in which she does
not appear, she never goes to it's first night,
even If she happens to be free and is not
appearing elsewhere because it makes him very
nervous when she sees for the first time of
his productions. She will attend later per-
formance and the agony he goes through on
on a first-night when all the critics and the
frst-nighters are there to decide the fate of his
work. Her opinion is more important to him
than that of all the newspapers. AS she has the
benefit of his criticism and direction throughout
rehearsals, she hasn't quite the same ordeal
when he watches play from the front, though
it is his opinion after first night she first
wants to hear
Their private life is-well their private life.
Not much is known of either outside the the
ater They both feel that they have the same
right to a personal existence that is granted
every other individual in more prosaic walks of
life. She seldom is seen outside the theater She
doesn't attend public dinners. She never has
made speech in her life and she avoids large
social gatherings. She has her circle of friends
wherever she goes but these people she sees in
her own home or in theirs.
IT is POSSIBLE that Katharine Cornell has
found the secret of true living accomplish
ment combined with love. She is warmly human
and has never sacrificed that tenderness which
characterizes real woman for one moment in
her rise to fame and stardom. Combined with
strength are the engaging and lileabe quail
ties of wife, playmate, a comrade-as well
as star!
1t is easy to imagine what the sunset of life
will be for these two looking backward seeing
the highways they have trod hand in hand and
looking forward to still greater appreciation of
the fullness of existence-al always together in
spirit, although the world and its needs often
keep them apart in reality.
Outstanding is their loyalty and trust in each
other She may be in the United States and he
in Europe-but they one! An understand
ing is hereby made evident that places these
two far above the ordinary walks of life-so it
happens that Cornell has achieved stardom in
sheer living as well as on the stage