WIVES MUST OBEY

Evening Star, Issue 20510, 14 June 1930, Page 15

WIVES MUST OBEY

FRENCH LAW .STAR TO LEAVE STAGE. PARIS, May 30. A. principle of French civil law dating from the Aliddle Ages that a wife is absolutely bound to obey her husband in all things was vigorously upheld today, when Nelson Morris, a mcmbei of the wealthy Chicago meat-packing family, was granted £4OO damages by the Paris courts against the proprietors of a Paris music hall, because they had allowed his wife, jane Aubert, tho comedienne, to appear on their stage against his warning. “INTOLERANCE.” If Mile. Aubert ignores tlu judgment the music hall proprietors must pay further damages of £25 for every performance in which she appears. The judges declared that it was intolerable that a husband’s authority should be “ daily flouted and ridiculed,’ and affirmed that all persons living in French territory must respect the French law that a wife owed subordination to her husband. The Public- Prosecutor bad previously intervened in the case and upheld the same point of view. Jane Aubert, who has risen from being a flower girl on the Paris streets to become one of the favourite comediennes of the day, was not defend ig in this case, but she has, a divorce suit now pending against her husband. She married Morris after a lightning courtship at Deauville last summer, but the romance was wrecked when ho forbade her to return to the stage. [Mile. Aubert was chosen by Mistiuguette, tho famous French actress, as her successor as tho possessor of the most beautiful legs. Mistinguette had insured her own legs for £200,000, and Mile. Aubert hers for £100,000.]