RADIO ROMANCE
HAPPINESS SHATTERED LONDON, June 7. Public interest in the wireless romance of the soprano Mavis Bennett, who married Stanford Robinson, a broadcasting official, in 1926, has been reawakened owing to her suing him for half the expenses of the honeymoon, the cost of his underwear, and his wedding present to her of a fur coat. The arrangement was allegedly made that he was to repay her with contributions to the housekeeping expenses. He denied this, and said that she was most extravagant. Her agent had expedited the engagement as a publicity stunt, and now, instead of being happy, “ with a car, servants and every blessed thing,” they were ruined. Their combined incomes exceeded £2OOO a year, fc Mr Justice Charles gave judgment for the husband, on the grounds that the arrangement was merely domestic and was not legally enforceable.'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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141RADIO ROMANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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