Still Looking For Him!

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 20

Still Looking For Him!

: Peggy Joyce’s Search For the Perfect Man . . . Spent £200,000 in a Week and Found Husband “Funny Over His Money ”

Stories of her life of love, and of the “perfect” are told by Miss Peggy Hopkins Joyce, America’s five-times married j woman, in her book, just published, I on “Men, Marriage and Me.” | The book is written as a diary. Jt I is crisp and often cynical, but the fam- ! ous beauty maintains a wistful pose | and closes with; “I suppose I shall j just have to keep watching for the j right map to come along,” j Referring to her many wealthy mar- ! riages, Miss Joyce says: “Sometimes i I wonder whether I really am mereen- | ary. Perhaps I am, but then it is bet- ( ter Tor me to he mercenary than mis- | erabl e.” i Speaking of her marriage with Mr. J Sherburn Hopkins, a wealthy Washington society man, she characterises Washington as “a place where every, •one has a position and po one does any work.” Sho flitted to the stage in "Ziegfeld’s Follies.” “Flowers mean a lot to a girl when critics ‘pan’ her,” she finds. Mr. Joyce -was her second husband. She met him in a Chicago theatre, -where she was playing, and lie-sent her a huge emerald. “Of course, I would rather have had

ja diamond, but anyway I suppose emeralds are worth a little money, too,” she calculated. “We were married in Florida, and then he suggested buying me. a £70,000 yacht. “I said if you are going to spend that much, buy me a pearl necklace. It would be a wonderful investment, and, besides, I always get seasick on yachts. I got the necklace.”Aftei* she had bought- a £40,000 diamond necklace in New York and many costly clothes, “Stanley began to complain because 1 was spending a million dollars (£200,000) a -week. He was not a bad husband, only a little funny about financial matters.” At Deauville she met a marquess who “had a very penetrating stare which makes you feel-a little uncomfortable.” Frenchmen as Husbands When contemplating marriage to a j Frenchman, Miss Joyce says: “French’| men underdstand women too well. Aj girl should never marry it, man who j understands women.” Hollywod came in its turn. Sho j found Mr. Ronald Colman and Miss j Marion Davies “Hie handsomest man j and most beautiful woman in all film- j j land.” I And what of the “perfect” hu3jband? j “He must be rich, but also have a competent secretary ao that he will not have to pay too much attention to business. He must also be a good quarreler —I cannot be happy unless I have a good fight every day or so. “He must be polite except when fighting. He rpust not stop telling me that I am beautiful, and he may be moderately jealous. Providing he fulfils all other specifications he can be young, old tall, short —anything but poor and fat.”