"RULES FOR WIVES"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 11 (Supplement)

"RULES FOR WIVES"

THEME FROM REAL LIFE Mr. Justice McCardie, the English bachelor judge, has inspired Hollywood. The film city, ever in search of talkie plots, has decided to make a picture based on the judge's dicta on the rights of married women—and there is no copyright. In the King's Bench Division last March Mr. Justice McCardie said: " A wife is not a slave. Every good woman wishes to stand by her husband, but the law says she can leave him,. If a wife cannot go away for a week-end because she thinks she needs a chango by the sea, I do not see what rights a married woman has to-day." And so Columbia Pictures will make " Rules for Wives." No author's fees are paid for many subjects now used for films. The Bible has long been regarded as the unwritten prerogative of Cecil B. de Mille, who is now starling the " Sign of the Cross," the old Roman-Christian melodrama. The brilliant young English actor, Charles Laughton, is (o play Nero, and Nancy Carroll, Sylvia Sidney and Randolph Scott are in the cast, which is to have a " crowd " of 7500.