DIVORCE SUIT FAILS
Australian Pearl Dealer’s Plea. LONDON, March 11. Alleging misconduct with a young schoolmaster, Thomas Twidell, of Highgate, Harold Oe Vahl Rubin, 33, pearl dealer, who returned from Australia in 1931, failed to secure a divorce from Marcelle Yvonne Rubin, 26. The parties were married at Hampstead Synagogue in 1925, and there was one child. Rubin said that at first the marriage was happy, but his wife’s attitude changed in 1931. The Judge (Lord Merrivale) agreed that Rubin had been abominably used as a result of the relationship of his wife with Twidell. He had been left in a shocking situation, with his mind torn with doubt as to her fidelity. Twidell, who was apparently a ladies’ man, a student and a dilettante, came on the scene in 1930.
He and Mrs Rubin exchanged kisses and letters abounding in banalities. Rubin attempted reconciliation, but his wife would not agree, and continued to write to Twidell, although he had agreed not to see her so often. Apparently she never intended adultery, but humbugged her husband into the belief that it occurred.
His Honor said he would not grant the divorce, so that the parties could make a fresh start.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 380, 23 March 1932, Page 1
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