Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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work out, there's such a thing as divorce? Every other star in Hollywood has." Nelson's face was suddenly murderous. "My feelings about rhe subject of divorce," he said tensely, "amounts to a sort of madness. During my entire life I've watched the misery and agony that's come from the separation of man and wife — I've watched it happen in my family, with my uncles and several cousins, and I've seen it among my friends." He paused a moment. "I know from private experience, because of my parents. 'When I finally find a love great enough to match the 606OR flElSOU EDDil 1WM 11/ thing in me that takes up so much of my energy and emotion, and decide to marry, then it will be for good. There won't be any divorce. "That's the point, you see. That's why I've not married yet and why, it may be, I never will. Entirely aside from the fact that I want so much from love, there's always the thought, and there always has been in the past, that it mightn't work out. That it might end in divorce. Do you understand my fear, why I can't honestly feel I am cut out to be a married man?" His father was a machinist-inventor and the work carried with it the necessity for travel, town-to-town treks that meant endless packing and nervous movement. Nelson, during the first few years of his life, knew no established home and thus had no chance to make friends or find playmates for himself. He had no sooner begun to adjust himself in a school than the word came that his father must move again; so eternally he was a newcomer, a strange little boy who had just come to town and whom the local kids must inspect and test before they could admit him to their circles. You can imagine his loneliness. He learned, then, the knack of introspection and of self-sufficiency. There was no one to play with him, so he invented little games to play by himself. And during {Continued on page 75) By HOWARD SHARPE YOUNG, HANDSOME AND WEALTHY, WHY HAS HE REFUSED TO MAKE ANY PLANS TO FIND LOVE?