"I ADORE MY HUSBAND."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 8

"I ADORE MY HUSBAND."

DIVORCED BEAUTY'S VOW.

SEQUEL TO A RENO "CUT."

WILL MARRY HIM AGAIN. "Although, divorced, we are madly in love with each other and consider ourselves as man and wife. In fact, I am expecting word from my 'husband' that , be will cofce to San Francisco that , we shall be remarried here. Collapsing in a half faint an hour later, Mrs. Agnes Aurelia Church, 25-year-old New York beauty, who recently against her will divorced Francois Louis Church, heir to the Elihu Church baking soda millions, declared this to a "Call-Bulletin" reporter. N . She was found in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, where she went into seclu- : sion after, driving from Reno, where her divorce was obtained on ia technical ground of non-support. After her collapse, the young woman was placed in care of a physician, who said she was suffering from "overwrought nerves." Later she fully revived and, declaring she felt "fine," left her hotel to go on a shopping tour. "I adore my husband," Mrs. Church told the reporter. "I divorced him only because I thought he would be happier without me, as his family, especially his stepmother, Mrs. Joseph Urdang, never did like me. But now I see he wants me back, and I am happy again and feel glad I'm alive. Threatens 1,000,000 Dollar Suit. \ "And if Mrs. Urdang doesn't stop meddling with my husband and me, I'll go right back to New York and file a 1,000,000-dollar alienation suit against her. "If for business reasons Francois is unable to come to San Francisco, we shall meet in Rome and be remarried there. "When I left' Reno I was headed straight for Rome by way of the Orient. Then I received word my husband might come here, so I decided'to remain in San Francisco a while and wait. That's what I'm doing now." Continuing, she said: "Let me first of all correct the impression that I ever was a telephone girl. Not that I'd be ashamed if I had been one, but it's just a plain fact that I wasn't. I did do some telephone work as part of my social service activities in New York and Brooklyn, but I never was employed as an operator. Wed in Secret. "My husband and I married secretly because for some reason his family objected to me, although I was and am as good as any of them. Francois is a wonderful man, and we were wonderfully happy the five years we lived together. But his stepmother, who was a trained nurse before she married Francois' father, never did approve and continually tried to take my husband from me. "When Francois' father, Elihu Church, died this trained nurse remarried, the man being Joseph Urdang, a musician, member of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. This was before Francois and I married. "Later I learned that Mrs. Urdang objected to" Francois marrying me, because she wanted him to marry some girl of the Urdang family, so that the Church money, or part of the Church money, would not go to me. "But Francois paid no attention to her, and we were married. Goes to Germany. "Mrs. Urdang kept continually after Francois, making life miserable for him, until in desperation he packed up and went to Germany. I remained in New York. Then I started thinking things over and felt that maybe Francois didn't want me any more, but was too cultured to say so. "So out of my great love for my husband I went to Reno and sued for divorce—a divorce I didn't want, and which at the last minute I refused to take, but in vain, as the judge just granted it and the case was over. "I was brokenhearted, but just as things looked blackest I received word from Francois that he still cared, that he wanted to remarry me. "Now I am going to try to forget the harrowing weeks I've gone through, and take a good rest. I was nearly on the verge of collapse when I arrived here with my aunt, Mrs. Winifred Bateman, and her son, my cousin. "If Francois comes here that'll mean a honeymoon trip that'll take us both around the world. Love Only Counts. "And if he doesn't come here, we'll remarry in Rome and have a wonderful honeymoon in Europe. Nothing matters now, my husband loves me, and that's all I care about." Mrs. Church had a message from her husband, which, in part, said: "The Church family seem to think they have bought your husband, but they may find they are mistaken yet." While in San Francisco Mrs. Church will claim a 30,000-dollar draft, representing a portion of the settlement reported made by the Church family incidental to separation from her husband. She arrived here in an expensive automobile, which she bought with part of the 10;000 dollars she received in Reno as the initial payment in the divorce settlement. Another 10,000 dollars went to her attorneys, The total settlement. was said to be 200,000 dollars.