Months have passed since Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Mike Todd — and this marriage is not her first, nor even her second. So let us cast a fleeting glance at Liz's position at the present moment, and at whether this marriage of hers has brought her true happiness.

The fact is that Liz herself cannot pronounce on the matter. She is incapable of defining the word "happiness" and grasping its essence... for since her earliest years she has lived in an emotional whirlpool that knows no rest... changing her emotional stance at every wink of her bewitching green eye! She herself is perplexed about herself and about her heart, which has learned to shift and change and fly from branch to branch! As for "love and happiness," they are two words she has mastered only in acting them on the screen — and as the director wills, not as she wills! Can Liz be blamed, then, for taking this wavering, unsteady stand toward herself and toward the truth of her own happiness??

There is one thing her marriage to Mike Todd has not yet managed to achieve, and that is the calming of her nerves and her appearing with an air of assurance and stability. All her life, as a child and as a young woman, she has been used to the tumultuous life between the studio, the home, and society; it is no easy thing for her to adapt herself so quickly to playing the part of "Madame Todd" and accompanying her husband in his whirlwind working life — being the gracious hostess to the hundreds of his guests and friends, and the merry, high-spirited companion on his long, swift journeys!!

Yet Liz seems certain of one thing. She recently declared to the press that she longs for a life of sta-

bility and quiet, far from the din of work, to be only... a wife and a mother... Can this great star realize this wish — even if she pays a heavy price for it, the final renunciation of acting and of the glittering life of the screen? And yet, even if she gives up acting, she will never win quiet and stability so long as she is Michael Todd's wife and companion...

This inquiry into Elizabeth Taylor's happiness draws us on to her health. Was her health ever of that soundness and vitality which would enable her to adapt herself to any life and any way of living, be it soft or tumultuous? It is worth mentioning that the whispers of the press have begun to point to an indisposition that struck her toward the end of the honeymoon and kept her in bed — and even in the hospital!... The whispers go further still, and say: Liz's indispositions always come as the result of her unhappiness... The journalists observe that during her quarrel with her former husband Michael Wilding — the quarrel that led to her divorce — she multiplied her comings and goings to and from

What Liz longs for now is a life of stability, as a wife and a mother