"CRAZY DIVORCES"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

"CRAZY DIVORCES"

Case of Husband's And Man Who was Too Patriotic DR. WILLIAM BOYCE has named a ghost as co-re-spondent in a Los Angeles divorce action. Poor Mr Boyce told the Court that his wife Lillian cooled toward him because of the amorous attentions of a spirit named Shosha, whom the wayward Mrs. Boyce met at a seance two years ago. ;

SO now harassed Court officials are vainly trying to serve Shosha with a subpoena. In a country where crazy divorce comedies are a commonplace, this is surely the strangest of all, but. there are many that run it close, states a London journal. There was the tactless Mr. Edward 0, Plant, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. When be took his wife out all he g<i\c her was chewing gum. price five cents. When he took out the housemaid he hired a limousine, entertained her at expensive night clubs, and bought her orchids! In this case the court granted a divorce for "intolerable cruelty, and perhaps it was. "Great Patriot" One marriage that was heading rapidly for the divorce courts was saved by the intervention of Colonel James A . Moss, President of the United States Flag Association. A wife wrote in desperation to say that her husband, a great patriot, insisted that she should stand to attention whenever the radio played the American .national anthem. Sounds harmless enough, but she'd been made to get up when in bed, and when eating a meal. The president was able to assure her husband no patriotic principle would be broken if his wife

did not. stand to attention -when, engaged in something else. Tlion there was the wife at Nancy (France) who sued i'or divorce because lier husband insisted that his brother should live with them in their home. Nothing much wrong with that? Usually not. Hut this brother happened to be his twin, and the pair -were so much alike that the wife never knew which was which! She'd start unburdening her heart when her "husband'' would interrupt to say, "I3ut I'm not your husband, I'm your brother-in-law." To make matters worse, this brother-in-law had a pretty sweetheart- who came to the house. The wife could nrver be sure that it. wasn't lier husband who was (lifting with this pretty companion. Mr. James McDonald, the 21-years-n!(i heir to an oil fortune, can claim to have been divorced twice in onfi day! _ Twice in One Day Early one June morning in in:',B, his wife Alicia was granted a divorce at Reno, Nevada, on the grounds of desertion. An hour later Mr. McDonald married Miss Doris Marie Cunningham, aged 22. The ink had scarcely dried (fit the marriage certificate when Mrs. McDonald the second stormed into the divorce court and demanded a divorce on the grounds of cruelty. She got it. A few minutes' after this second divorce Mr. McDonald announced that he would marry again.