I AM NOT a happy man unless I love someone. To love and be loved in return-I believe is the most important thing in life. Personal relationships, when they are successful and complete, have to come first. Before everything. Even a career."
Not so long ago, it was in these enlightened words that Lex Barker, whose playing of Tarzan off the screen in dress clothes often reflects much of the character of his role in the films, explained his dread of solitude in the sea of humanity. The statement followed his whirlwind courtship and marriage to Lana Turner.
What did Miss Turner have to say in response to this eloquent and obviously sincere analysis of the inner working of his mental and physical make-up? She was, with typical Lana candor, equally explicit and revealing: "Lex, I think, is the kind of man I have wanted for a long time. I know him to be sincere, kind, generous to a degree, and never without a sympathetic ear for someone else's problems and worries. And what woman today hasn't always a problem of some kind?
"Unlike other men I have known," Lana goes on, "Lex shows that he isn't always thinking of himself. . . but that he is always ready and eager with advice and help whenever and wherever it's needed."
All this, of course, sounds like an ideal relationship. Lana loves Lex, Lex loves Lana. Lana understands Lex. Lex understands Lana.
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