WIVES PROVE COSTLY
RICH AMERICAN'S BUDGET FIVE, TIMES DIVORCED ,- J I ■ NEW YOBK, Nov. 23 Mr. Thomas Manville, asbestos multimillionaire, stated that his four wives had cost- him £850,000. The latest wife -has just divorced him at Reno. He made up the budget as follows:—Florence Humber, divorced 1922, £37,500: -Lois McCoin, divorced 1930, £250,000; Yvonne/Taylor, divorced 1931, £250.000; Marcelle Edwards, divorced 1937, '£312,500. - The principal items of expenditure on his foi/rth wife, Mr. Manville said, ■were: —Parties, orchids, champagne. -servants, secretaries, guards, etc., £'91.500; divorce settlement, £50,000; .jewellery, £50,000; trips to Europe. £25,000; stocks and bonds, £25,000. - Asked if he was contemplating another marriage, Mr. Manville laughed and 6aid: "Never again-!" -•-.lt was reported from Hollywood last - week that Mr. Manville had settled so much on his fourth wife that she /had flatly refused attractive offers of -A film 'contract. Ernst Lubitsch, who offered her an role with Gary Cooper in "Bluebeard's Eighth "Wife," said he had never before known a girl so definitely to refuse movie stardom.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22901, 2 December 1937, Page 14
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