FRENCH COMEDY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15956, 18 October 1922, Page 8

FRENCH COMEDY.

LEGAL FIGHT AMUSES ALL PARIS

LONDON, Oct. 9.—Paris is chuckling at the whimsical termination of a battling legal tangle, in which a small host of legal gentlemen were engaged for months. Cupid then stepped in, and Uie contending parties forgot their troubles at the altar.

The principals were :—Jacqueline Lcbaudy, daughter of the notorious "Emperor of the Sahara,' who had an amazing career, until his death at the hands of his wife; her mother; Jacqueline's husband; his father, who is the famous Parisian detective, Sudreau. The trouble began after the marriage of Jacqueline with M. Sudreau, junior. The mother contended that ag it was only a "marriage of convenience," the parties should' part. The husband objecting, she sought to have the marriage annulled, on the ground 1 that it was not consummated. Thereupon a big lesal battle, with claims and counter-claims, started.

Sudreau's father was forced to participate. Whether this latter event' was the deciding factor ia unknown, but suddenly the parties fors-Mjk the Court for tihe church, where there was a doublebarrelled ceremony. on a second marriage with her own husband, to wipe out the past and ensure no mistakes for the future.

Mdlle. Jacqueline is heiress to £6,000,000 left by her father Jacques JJebnudy," self-styled "Emperor of the Pnbara." a vi h ceentiric, who was shot dead in New York by his wife, who was acquitted on •ho ground' that she was protecting her da"rrhter's honor.

The fortune was tied up until Jarqueline married or name of arm. hi order to secure her share of it earlier, as Jacqueline is onlv 17, tihe l mother ar'-' ranged for a marriage in name only, with Sndrenu, the sin of (he detective. However, the two young peonle fell in love with one another—hence the comedy above related.