WIVES PROVE COSTLY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 9 December 1937, Page 3

WIVES PROVE COSTLY

RICH AMERICAN'S BUDGET FIVE TIMES DIVORCED NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Mr. Thomas Manville, asbestos multi-millionaire, 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 fourth wife, Mr. Manville said, were: 'Parties, brchids, 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 said: "Never again!" It 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 important role with Gary Cooper in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," said he had never before known a girl so definitely to refuse movie stardom.