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Miriam Hopkins answers a question that confronts every woman sometime in her life
by MIRIAM HOPKINS as told to
Gladys McVeigh
Primitive Polyandry, which in simple terms is the curious ability of one woman to love two men with equal intensity, belongs to an epoch of the past, yet harking back through the ages, every woman (even as you and I) at some period in her life has had to answer this burning question. Secretly and perhaps instinctively, certain daring feminine spirits have sought an answer to their curiosity, paying dearly for their inquisitiveness in primitive days no doubt, with busted skulls, and in later times with social ostracism and disgrace.
I suppose the reason I was nominated to talk about this interesting question, is because of my recent screen performance in Design for Living, wherein as an ultramodern young woman I find myself in the polyandrous role of being hopelessly in love with two men, Gary Cooper and Fredric March.
• Polyandry is nothing new. It has been practiced in the past with respect, and in fact still flourishes among some of the dark tribes today, where the population is predominantly male and where women-folk necessarily must be protected from elemental nature.
If our more primitive sisters indulged in it because of necessity, the women of today have renewed the idea through asserting their own inclinations.
Today women have power, that is the right to vote, to earn their own living. They are self-sustaining and they want to compete with men in all departments. The notion that women are monogamists by nature and that men are polygamists is ancient and outworn.
When the hausfrau was little above the plough horse all was serene, but now she wants the same freedom in love that she has been allowed to enjoy in all other social activities. She has been recognized as man's equal and demanded a recount as it were. In addition to her other accomplishments she feels the glorious privilege of having some choice in the selection of her life mate, yet despite all that has been said about her I believe we still find her fundamentally "woman," with a fine sense of instinctive exclusiveness.
There is little doubt that the spectrum of love includes a multitude of ingredients. As a beam of light passes
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"When you say 'love,' " declare* Miriam Hopkins, "you are toying with one of the most abused words in the English language. Too much, I believe, the perfect love of a past age has become the sex attraction of a
later age"
through a crystal prism to break itself into a myriad of color, so I sometimes consider the personalities of men as varying in their intensity as the rays of a light.
The contrasting qualities of two men mibht be so varied that I might say, "Yes, I feel an emotion akin to love for each of them. Gary for his sympathetic understanding . . . or Fredric for his mental brilliance." But wait ... do not mistake me — that is not love in its complete sense.
• When you say "love" you are toying with one of the most abused words in the English language. Historically speaking, love had its advent into the world some 3,000 years ago. During the sultanesque reign of
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