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HY is it that conspicuous beauties are so rarely happy when
married? In the roster of those whose faces and forms have
frér,n the stage delighted thousands, hardly one out of ten has,
when wedded, either found or given that contentment that is associatéd
usually with the home. | y ; .
The lastest example of this curious pi:enomenon is Kay Laurel. She
was a very conspicuous beauty of the “Follies,” whose pictures two years
ago adorned billboards and calendars alike. Her marriage to Mr. Win
field Sheehan, former secretary to Police Commissioner Waldo, under
' Mayor Ga{nor, in London, surprised Broadwaz. Now, for the third
time, she has separated from her husband. The legal aspects of the
matter are in the hands of attorneys.. Twice before reconciliation fol
lowed the disagreement, although the second break went as far as the
drawing up of legal papers. Friends are hoping that a permanent recon
ciliation may follow this last, but Kay Laurel Sheehan declares em
phatically that it cannot. In the meantime, in the following interview,
she presents an interesting theory of her own of the reason why beauty
cannot be happily niarriéd. 2 .
BEAUTY hasn’t a chance for happi
ness in marriage. Not a chance.
: A camel might as well try to enter
heaven through a needle’s eye as a bealty
of the stage to try to be a happy wife.
When' Mr. Sheehan asked me, i London,
‘to marry him, even then I expressed my mis
givings about matrimony—at:least so far as
1 was concerned.
I said, ““I would consent to a trial mar
riage. But a permanently binding one is wi
wise. Let us wait and find out whether we
will be as happy together as we think we
will.”? He was shocked. ‘‘The trial mar
" - riage,”’ he said, sternly, ‘‘is not yet récog
nized. I want no tongues wagging about
you. I love you and I can’t permit any
course that might causd anyone in the world
to misunderstand you.”’
And so, after an unusual wooing, we
were married. Haddon Chambers and other
friends of ours.were wedding guests. The
wedding. breakfast occurred at the Hotel
Savoy. We took rooms there, and after a
few days continued your honeymoon to
Glasgow. !
The proof of the pudding is in the eating,
and it didn’t take long to prove that I was
right and shat he was wrong. But then
there ha/’ve been se many others who have
had the same experience. Was Maxine El
liott happy in marriage? No! Was Lillian
Russell? No! Not for three trials anyway.
Was Edna Goodrich in her two attempts?
Was Pauline Frederick in’ her first matri
monial role? Emphatically no? And so I
can go on with’the roll call of scores of
" beautiful woman who have delighted the
eyes and hearts of multifiides but who seem
Bever to permanently hgld the heart of the
®ne man she has chosen. ~ ¢
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this condition, as I see them. "
The first is that a woman .
who has been used to the plau
dits and’ admiration of many ac
qui(.res an. entirely different view
point of life than the ordinary
sequestered woman. I won’t ad
mit that this is vanity, but she be-
gins 'to take- herself at the same
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of her. She becomes as accustomed °
to ddmiration as to air and food and she
takes it“as much for granted as she does the
roof abgve her head and the sky above that.
. It disturbs her no-more than the sun
shine. It is a part of her atmosphere. She
gets what she earns. We earn that admira
tion and therefore we get it." It does not
take to her the concrete form that admira
tion and adulation take with women who
have never been accustomed to it in such a
wholesale way. %
The second big factor is that even into
the best regulated household jealousy en
ters. A husband sets himself up as a eritic
on the hearth. Better a troubled career than
a constant critic on the hearth side. The
husband of a beauty is not satisfied with
being merely a critic. He must be a, Sultan,
too. An American husband of a famous
beauty out-Turks the ruler of Turkey in
jealousy. The Sultan of Turkey simply has
“a wife sewed up in a bag and drowned in
the Bosphorus. I prefer the Turkish way.
" A husband shouldn’t be jealous, when he
knows his wife loves him. But he is. He is
¢ vaguely, gnawingly jealous when he isn’t
acutely, breaking the furniturely jealous.
The green-eyed monster is like the meod.
He is always present, but in different phases.
A man who has married a beaufy is re
trospectfiely jealous. He rages at every one
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ICay Laurel, HeartProlen
- Explains Why Beauties
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Another Charming “Beauty Picture” of Kay}
Laurel Before She Became, Mrs. Sheehan.
who has ever shown any admiration for her.
He is bitter toward the man who dares
to admire her, and he fulminates against the
possible man who may admire her to-morrow..
He cages her and wonders why she doesn’t
sing. e
_The unhappy beauty who has married him
tries to make him see facts as they are, to
untangle in his mind the twists-of jealousy.
In vamn. A ;
Remember all the beauties-*who have
geome to :;21: divoree courts and asked to be
freed from the tyrant in the home! Then I'll
add to them all the married beauties that I
know, and that Broadway knows, are mot
happy, but who have decided to.adjust them
selyes to unhappy circumstances. - _
But here is a point that is important.
Mightily important. A beautiful woman is
a delicate oge. She is of a fragile fype. She
is never big and coarse. The big, coarse
jwoman may be handsome, but she can never
‘be beautiful. Beauty and '
delicacy are synonymous. A
beauty is like a hot-house
rose. NSuch a blossom re
ceives more deferential treat
ment than does the holyhock .
that flames behind the broken
palings of a country garden.
The hot-house rose of human
ity wilts quickly in an atmos- \
phere®of coldness or unap
preciation. Consideration un
der all circumstances should |
be the motto of the beauty’s '
husband.
+ Another point i§_‘ thz}t
7 though she would like to;
meet ‘the best'\men, best in the sense of
high character and appreciation of the
best -qualities, of womanhood, she sel
dom meéts them. She meets the spend
ers, the high rollers, the unserupulous,
the abominably selfish. She does not
meet poor young men of ideals and am:
bitions, but the spoiled, idle sons of rich
fathers. From such a motley lot with some ex
ceptions, of course, she must choose her mate.
The transformation in the husband of the
beauty would be funny if it were not so sad—
to the beauty. At first there are flowers,
forests of them. Telegrams—eleven a day,
I have known. Dinners crowd upon lunch
cons, and after theatre suppers upon din
ners. . Books, chocolates, jewels.
Before marriage the heauty isthe constant
recipient. The beauty’s admirer is the con
tinuous donor.. Blissful while it lasts. Note
that I said while it lasts.
. But a few months after marriage—maybe
a few weeks—the volume of the flowers and,
books and jewels lessens. The stream trick
les away to nothingness.. The beauty re
pines. Of course she does. She isn’t an
angel, even though her admirers in the first
stage so designates her. She has human
needs of thoughtfulness and co.sideration,
_plus the beauty’s need of them. Hers the
“greater need because she has nlways been
accustomed to them. Most heauties are
frostbitten blooms before the¢y have been
married six months. ; : .
. The beauty takes a more or less impersonal
view of her levelingss. Tt takes on to her
somewhat of the character of the Greek
statuette in her drawing room. The Greek
statuette is on exhibition. Naturally so, ‘be
caunse it is lovely. * '
YWhen, for instance, Ilearned that Florenz
Ziegfeld, Jr.,, had said, purely in the interests
of art, ‘‘Kay Laurel has the most beautiful
form in the world,”” 1 had no sensation of
gratified vanity. I was glad as 1 weuld have
been glad had a connoisseur in Greek statu
ettes said: “There is the most beautiful
form in the world.”.
But can a husband'take such a calm; ap
praising standpeint? No. ~He rages gnd"
oerders his wife to wear her skirts unfash
ionably long, It is really unfoergunate if a
woman have a beautiful nose, or a graceful
throat,sor lovely eyes. Her husband insults
her if someone remarks them. He is in a
fury because he feels that he is sharing her
charms with others. He refuses to take her
to parties because he is afraid other mens
will admire her. He considers 'all publie
functions as the placing of his wife’s at
tractiveness in a show window where all
may see. He drags her out of the show win
dow, often not by any means gently.
Is it surprising that the beauty wearies of
such jealous, mqnopolistic spirit? Once she
was adored for her beauty. Now she is pun«
ished for it. Assuredly being made to stay
at home alone—while her husband goes to the
club—because she is beautiful is not to heg
liking. Isn’t it in_the natural course of
.earthly events and human emotions that she
wants to leave the critic on the hearth to
face the less personal critic in the theatre
chair.
When ugly jealousy intrudes hate follows.
The actress, knowing that she has lost her
‘husband’s love, considers going back to the
stage. Her audiences may not be constant,
but they will certainly not rage at her be
_cause she has the fortune or misfortume to
be beautiful.
A beauty, by reason of her attractions, is
more or less a publie character. It could not
be ‘otherwise, if she would have ‘it so. Pass
ers by stare at her on the street. -They even
turn and follow her. They comment upon
her charms as though she were deaf. A hus
band hates this. The eternal egotism of the
male revolts at it.
Which is, perhaps, the nub of the argu
ment.. Our destinies are born with us. The
destiny of a beauty is to be admired by
many, never permanently loved by anyone.
She must.resign herself to it. She must ae
cept her fate. Kismet. ;
Two years ago I was a beauty and happy,
because not married. To-day there is no
more heart broken woman in N¢w York, nor
in Ameriea, than I. Because being a beaut¥,
1 was so foolish to marry. ¢
1 might Rave knewn. :
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