DIVORCES IN SYDNEY.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17786, 10 August 1929, Page 17 (Supplement)

DIVORCES IN SYDNEY.

“THE SINGING PARSON.” WIFE GRANTED FREEDOM. SYDNEY, August 1. The wife of Frank Walter Gorman, well known on the vaudeville stage as “The Singing Parson,” succeeded in her petition for divorce on the ground of desertion.

Mrs Gorman said she was married in 1911, when she was 22 and her husband 26. He was then a clergyman in the United States. They came to Sydney in 1920, and he obtained vaudeville engagements which took him to all the Australian States and New Zealand.

In 1924, when he was in New Zealand and she in Sydney, he wrote to her as follows:—“It is my judgment that a break wall give each of us the opportunity to realise happiness, and consequently get the best out of life. I, personally have met someone whom I believe wil give me that real happiness I have longed for these many years.’ The court granted a decree nisi.

Organist Granted Divorce.

Eddie Horton, Wurlitzer organist at the Prince Edward Theatre, Sydney, and formerly at the Regent Theatre, Auckland, sought a divorce from Hazel May Horton on the ground of her misconduct with a man named in the petition. Horton stated that he married the respondent in California in 1923. When he took an engagement in Auckland in 1926, she agreed to go with him and make a fresh start. However, a few days. after they reached Auckland she declared that they could not “hit it” and that she was going away.

A decree nisi was granted. “MO” Sued For More Alimony.

The salary of Harry v. Sluice, otherwise “Mo,” the Hebrew comedian, formerly of the “Stiffy and Mo” revue team, was discussed when his former wife, Dorothy Claire Sluice, who divorced him some time ago for desertion, applied to the Registrar in Divorce for £ls a week permanent alimony.

Sluice, who said, he had been paying petitioner £lO a week alimony, resisted her claim for an increase. Cross-examined, he said he had married Sadie Gale, a vaudeville artist, who had been performing with him, three weeks ago. #

In his affidavit, Sluice said his present contract wjith Clay’s was for himself and his wife, Sadie Gale, and was for six months at £7O a week. His total liabilities at present were about £BOO, of which £3OO was owing to Fuller’s, who had deducted' £lO a week from his salary in liquidation of the debt. He had other payments to make, and out of his salary he had only £5 a week left for his own personal expenses. The Registrar reserved his decision.