New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1927, Page 28

How Constance Talmadge Brought Her Second [0 Love Matchtoa [©) ) o\ ery rising match to be very honeymoon brate the start married lif whispered, is e he case of Constance MaclInt er onnie” he n their honeymoon Captain and to the homes friends, still be r. That visit more than for her adoring cap- For it brought, h would endure. g the environ- r husband planned Miss Taimadge in- ¢ wanted to be single again and free to continue the movie career she had about decided to give up In ending her love match was as quick and de- cisive as she had been about giving her heart to her sol dierly wooer. Almost im- mediately after their return from the ill-fated honey- moon she left her husband of only a little more than six months. Before leaving New York for Hollywood she announced that the separation was final and that a divorce would soon follow. And thus ended the romance which had its beginning when William Rhinelander Stewart, the fash- ionable clubman, in- troduced Captain MacIntosh to Miss Talmadge. Young Mr. Stew- art has long been famous for his fond- ness for making love matches and it is strongly suspected he had one in mind when he introduced these friends of his. He was not disap- pointed, nor did he have long to wait for Cupid to finish the job. The wooing tock place in colorfu Hollywood with Mr. Stewart keeping a watchful eye on love's game from the And such a strenuous, impetuous courtship it was——just the sort you would expect from a dashing war hero who felt sure he had found his ideal of young woman- hood. The Captain stepped into “Connic’s” life just when she was trying to recover from her first matrimonial experience. That marriage had been an unhappy According to the charges made in she found John importer, she side lines. one. her suit for divorce, Pialoglou, wealthy tobacco even harder to get along with than his Talmadge great admirer of ght Captain sting exam His wide ever met felt she « s therefore she 1 it was rc enthusiasm almadge was Another interesting photographic study of “Con- nie” Talmadge, the film star who seems unable to achieve in matrimony anything like the success she does in the movies already a fam MacIntosh’s ari atives and th iar figure to Captain ocratic friends and rel- - were proud and pleased that he had won the heart of such a famous and talented beauty. Their hearty congratulations made it certain that there would be no snubbing or high hat- ting of bride when he intro- 'r to the smart sét overseas. ¢ June “Connie’s” picture was fin- and her husband sailed on ayed honeymoon. So happy his actres ished and she their long de wag she with her new husband and so confident she would find the environ- me o which he was taking her entirely to her liking that she seriously con- sidered ab mo soon as her contr: She would, she English to the more mistros: What could be delightful? Captain Maclntosh's proud family and his rich and *d friends received her nothing eir welcome rriage. wit what she a at it quickly killed her desir vi d brought conclusion Id be i final.y that W happier if t married to Captain Mac ionment ance is said to have understand low as of fashion hown in American the i are in many exag titled Englishmen grossly gerated and Mrs. Constance Talmadge Macln- tosh who is divorcing her second husband even more quickly than she did her L first one do not surround themselves with all the pomp and vanity and stiff-necked ceremonies which the films would have us believe. 3o Miss Talmadge found out before she had been very long in the British Isles. Where were the powdered footmen that are so numerous in the film dramas? She saw not one of them at any of the many elegant homes in which she was entertained. Where were all the other liveried flunkeys? Surprisingly few of them in evidence. In fact many country manor houses and city mansions seemed to get along with fewer servants than are thought necessary in the homes of Hollywood film stars. Where were the magnificent dinner services of gold plate engraved with the family crest? The bride ate many a dinner of English roast beef without seeing anything better than fine china and silver. And so it went with all the concep- tions of fashionable English life which it would be only natural for an Ameri- can film star to have. Except for minor differences, rich and titled English peo- ple seemed to live quite like prosperous Americans and in a good many cases with a great deal less luxury and display. Is it any wonder that such a com- plete disillusionment should have upset the American bride and made her think that she would b better off back in the United States than as the lady of Captain Maclntosh’s English home? Perhaps it would have been embar- ssing for the little American film star ce of English high life as it is lived rather than as she had visioned it with almost childish imagina- tion of dignified pomp and splendor. For she never has admitted tha was the revelations of her visit to her homes of his that ond romance so sud- toward career in husband’s home and to British her to crash her s¢ ionahle frien moved denly and cast a longing eye America and h the world of the A As a matter of hen Intosh was questioned by fri if her disapp of England was the real aying Mrs. Mae- nds who sintment of her evaded sought to learn second exploded romanc e the query by replying with a trace of annoyanee: “T have is enough. been ried twice and it creen work and as soon as I finish my act with First for United I have my National T shall begin work Artists, “Don’t y ause T want to 1 think it iz .nfair ju the and above board and just because Captain MacIntosh and T wis not t be be on level » decided our mar- riage try to start uceess for people to candal?” Evidently th young and beautiful does not care to have the abou t her un expected change of heart has anything star of the ph imy n a Sadly Disillu- sioning Visit to Her Husband’s Scottish Home The former Miss Laura Biddle and her husband, William Rhinelander Stewart, the society matchmaker who introduced Captain Maclntosh to Miss Talmadge and helped along their romance to do with any possible shattered pic- tures of England that may have been in her mind. Many of Constance Talmadge's friends both here and in England think that such a disillusionment was a direct cause of her sudden decision to leave her new husband and arrange a divorce. One of those who hold this opinion is Lord Castlerosse. When he heard of the Mac- Intosh’s separation he had this to say: “Captain MacIntosh made the serious error in judgment of introducing his wife to his friends. They were much too democratic, which was disappointing after the high standard set by the noble- men who figure in American films. “In England Miss Talmadge met the highest in the land, but I doubt if she saw a single powdered footman except in restaurants.” If this is the true explanation of the surprisingly sudden end of Miss Tal- madge’s latest matrimonial venture she is by no means the first American woman to undergo such a disillusion- ment. Many American heiresses who have married Englishmen are believed to have found fashionable English life not at all what they expected it would be, and to have been very dissatisfied with their marriages because of this fact. Since the movies came into great pop- ularity such es of disillusionment are likely to be more numerous than ever. The scenario writers have gone to Eng- land to study the backgrounds for Eng- lish society dramas and the film dirdctors have imported from England butlers and footmen to tell them just how English servants should dress and behave. But in spite of these efforts at realism there is still the widest difference be- tween fashionable English life as it is v lived and as it is shown in the the czar of the movie world, have to tone down the films of English society life and make them stick closer to the ruth? Such action on his vart might perhaps save scores of Amer- ican girls from being bitterly disillu- sioned after their marriage to English- men. — John Pialoglou, Cons’arce Tal- madge’s first husband There was still another thing which may have added to Constance Tal- madge’s dissatisfaction with the idea of quitting the films and settling down in England as the lady of Captain Maec- Intosh’s home. This was the heavy finan- cial losses which he is said to have sus- tained about that time through a dis- astrous real estate speculation. Not only did he lose heavily in this, but many of his fashionable London friends who had his recommendation sus- Among those who were “stung” be- use real estate values did not increase as Captain MacIntosh believed they would were the Duke of Westminster, Sir Philip Sassoon, Lord and Lady Chol- mondeley, the Baroness D'Erlanger, Maldwin Drummond, the banker, and Captain Alastair Maclntosh and his bride on their return from the honeymoon trip tc Scotland that ended in their parting Luigi Nantree, the proserous restaurant owner. Captain MacIntosh was never a tre- mendously wealthy man and his bride may well have feared that these losses would make a serious difference with the luxury in which he would be able to maintain her. His financial reverses, added to the disappointment she felt on finding Eng- lish life so much different from what she had expected, made her think that she would better hang on to her high v and live in America. With her income of many thousands of dollars a vear she could easily live in the United States on the scale of magnificence on which she had expected to find her hus- band's aristocratic English friends liv- ing. Outside his most intimate friends, no- body knows how Captain MacIntosh is bearing the loss of the bride who was his for such brief time. He disappeared from public view shortly before “Con- nie” announced that she was leaving him forever. There has been no state- ment from him to indicate whether he is filled with deep regrets over the short lived romance or whether he is as well content as Miss Talmadge seems to be to have things turning out as they are. John Pialoglou seems to think that his marriage to Constance Talmadge vas enough of a matrimonial experience to last him for a long time. Up to date he has shown no indication of marrying again. Ile is a well known figure on New York's Broadway and is frequently seen at the theater on first nights,