HELEN WILLS MOODY’S DIVORCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23302, 21 September 1937, Page 10

HELEN WILLS MOODY’S DIVORCE

HUSBAND OBJECTS TO SO MUCH TENNIS WIFE HOPES TO MARRY AGAIN I spoke over the transatlantic telephone to Mrs Helen Wills Moody, the lawn tennis star, who is in Reno, Nevada’s “ divorce city,’’ seeking a decree nisi (since granted) from Mr F. S. Moody, jun., a stockbroker, of San Francisco, said Stanley N. Doust in the London Daily Mail recently. “Yes, it’s true. lam going to divorce my husband,” she said. “You see. Fred and I haven’t got on well for some time. “He has resented my playing so much tennis abroad, and that is the reason why I have not played at Wimbledon for the past two years. “ But it made no difference; we just didn’t agree, so I am seeking my divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty. , , , “My divorce will not be through for a month at the least, so I shall not be able to play in the Wightman Cud match against Britain in New York in August.” “ Where are you going to live after your divorce —England or the United States?” I asked. “I’m going to live in San Francisco, but next winter I’ll go to Switzerland for the sports and then return to England to play in tournaments, including Wimbledon. Those are my present plans.” “But,” I asked, “do you intend to marry again? ” “ Yes,” she answered. I hope so. But to whom Mrs Moody refused to Sa jvir Moody has gone holiday-making in the Californian mountains. Their romance began on the French Riviera in 1926, when illness forced her out of the international tennis tournament. Three years later they were married in San Francisco.