"To my mind companionate marriage is the debasement of a sacred institution. Frankly it is a lot of trash, and I am convinced that most of the people who profess to believe in it and who uphold it are hypocritical and shallow," stated Mae Murray, gorgeous blond Paramount movie star, in an interview last night with a CRIMSON reporter, after having just answered her curtain calls at the Metropolitan. "In order that this may not sound contradictory," she continued, "when one considers my several marriages, I can only say that I have always held matrimony sacred, and consider it indispensable to ultimate happiness in the intimate association of man and woman. However, marriage is not always successful, and I maintain that it is only right that two discordant personalities be allowed to separate and pursue their own course of life. Every woman has an ideal man of her own conception. Some are fortunate enough to meet him soon in life and to live happily ever after their first trip to the altar. My several marriages are stepping stones in my search for my masculine ideal."

When asked what type of man she considered the masculine ideal, the screen celebrity smiled. "You will think I am trying to appear naive when I say that I consider that men like President Coolidge, who is so calm, capable of reflecting intelligently on difficult problems, and able to arrive at logical conclusions: Lindbergh, who is similar to the Crusaders of old, and Will Rogers, who is such a gentleman and actor, are the admirable types of men. Perhaps, I am only cynical when I attempt to visualize a man combining the good qualities of these three."

Miss Murray briefly summed up her career. "I have danced, danced, danced .... in the street to the music of hurdygurdles, before an old convent I attended, in the glamorous spotlight of the "Follies" under the instruction of Ziegfield, on expensive sets in lavish movies. The cinema has its charm, but after two more pictures I am hidding it adieu. My husband and I are going to Tunis to live, close to the romantic Sahara."