RICHARD TAUBER.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19899, 30 May 1936, Page 19 (Supplement)

RICHARD TAUBER.

PLANS FOR LONDON WEDDING. FAMOUS TENOR AND ACTRESS. ...—.... 5 Richard Tauber and his Titian- ; I haired fiancee, Diana Napier, the Eng—- _ 3 lish actress, returned to London from tiV‘ienna last month with “A song of happiness in their hearts." ‘ That is how ’i‘aubcr, as youthiully I‘cheerful as a schoolboy, expressed 1 their joy as he stepped from the aero—plane at Croydon. ,1; And the reason is. as he and Miss [ Napier competed eagerly to tell the . correspondent of a London paper, that ,lin two months‘ time or thereabouts they are to be married in London. , “ How I have dreamed of being~ mar—;iried in England in the. spring sun—- , shine," he said, while she added, “ \V‘e , Shops to find a pretty little church for L, I the ceremony.” ,I They will live in England most or , , the time. " I am to keep on my house J at, Elstree," declared Miss Napier firmly. " But, what of the beautiful new flat I have. prepared,“ said Tauher with Ethc wry expression (If a hurt. school—}hoy. and Misg Napier found a solu‘tion: “Then we shall live in them lboth at different times." she replied. Taubor Loses Much Weight. Tauher said that. he had been dieting carefully, and that; he had lost nearly ltwo stones in weight. l “I have never felt in such complete icommand of my voice,“ he continued. 5 “I begin work in Vienna on my latest ifllm, ‘Pagliacci,’ in ten days. and later jin the year in another film. ‘Land lWithout Music.‘ Diana is to star with me." ” In the meantime I am gain-g back to Vienna," interposed Miss Napier, ]“for I have been invited to appear ]there in an Austrian play." I 'Tau'ber has been away from London for nearly four months, during which itime he sang in opera in Vienna, wished his mother, who is 89, at Salzburg, and, more particularly, cleared up the tangle of his divorce from his I former wife, Madame 'l‘auber Vancon-ti.