GAVE UP CAREER.

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 10

GAVE UP CAREER.

PREFERRED DOMESTIC LIFE. STAR OF SILENT FILMSAod La Rocque and Vilma Banky, stars of the silent flints, who have surely earned by their ten years ol tranquil married life that often misapplied title “ Hollywood's Happiesl Married Couple,” were re-unlted in London last night after a parting ol “ nine unutterably Impatient weeks, 6ays a London paper. Tall, gay, and debonair. Rod La Rooque, making his first picture Id England after 171 films In the United States, Is 38 years of age. His lovely. Intelligent, Hungarian wife, who Is 33, landed from the Bremen . . " for months of gay wanderings in England and Europe.” Her husband was up early to be’ at Southampton to meet her, though he Is busy film-making. “You see, Rod and I have personalities that harmonise,” said Miss Banky to an Interviewer. “ But I believe that we have maintained our hold Dn our marriage because I have not tried to divide my life between him ind the films. 41 1 was Tempted. ’* “it was a temptation, I admit. When we first were married, I was jp there,” she pointed to the celling with her cigarette. “ But I am still up there, in my life with Rod. So often I have had Differs to make films . . ‘to come )ack,’ would you say? But I had had jnough of films just about that time, when, almost newly arrived In Hollywood and speaking pidgin English, I net Rod. “ What I enjoy in my married life s the peace, the peace 1 I like to renaln In the background Just seeing pictures—Rod's pictures mostly.” Intervened Mr La Rocque: “The times we are going to have over here. You have to see England, the Coronation, the golf courses ...” “ Golf is the great game for me,” said Miss Bariky. “ I took it up two years ago, and now my handicap Is 8 and I have won so many trophies." philosophy of Married Happiness. Miss Banky’s philosophy of married happiness is that a man “ likes to come home to his wife to talk about his pictures. If she has pictures on her mind, too . . . It Is not so easy for them to remain happy for long." For the moment the La RocqueBanky love tale goes on . . a few weeks in England—golf mostly for her and work for him; the wedding In Budapest of her sister; winter sports —“ then I take that man to Lake Como—and the Coronation.” The La Rocque-Bankys are thor(.ughly nice people. ~~