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DIVORCE AND THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR

THE LAPSE

MRS

HE proportion of cases

TH

in which the Queen's Proctor intervenes is lower today than ever be fore.

more

CAHER

than he

can

OF

PRETTY

Will a Divorce Court judge in the oxorcise of his dis- crotion grant a decree to a woman guilty of misconduct? In the case of Mrs Wyko the. answer was No. But in the case of Mrs Pretty, six years later, the answar was Yes.....

Not only are there for

possibly investigate, but there is less time in which to take action since the vital period between decree nisi and decree absolute has been cut from six months tó slx +++÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷444 weeks.

As to whether there are fewer cases now in which, did he know Of them, the Queen, Proctor might well intervene, that is But It is fair anyone's guess. to say that

The story of this change in the divorce law is the theme of today's article in the series

soved up, on the decree, to get what I wanted, so that I could murry again."

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this

THE CHINA MAILITUESDAY, OCTOBER 13; 1953.

In little more than a year his

[m

and the

conduct repelled has leave wont to New Zealand, whore relations of her mother lived. On her return to England next year the success- fully petitioned for divorrd.

the

But eho had not gone to,

Zealand alene. She had New bern accompanied by an ac- quaintance of her husband-a man grotesquely named

Hall penny. The evidence that King's Precior called when he

·Tater Intervened in the casc Jaft no doubt in the minds of judge or jury of the terms upon which they had travelled together.

The petitianer did not make Things úmy casier for herself Every

by perrasting in affirming that relations with Halfpenny raises Ի olme prob- her

WCTE 'ad

innocent. She tood. lem-shoulti the ecurt In

In the position of the therefore, overlook

who had Unc

sup- Fifty yenta

pressed p

fact most material

committed рет

intorvint on

Fo

Its direretion petitioner's inpse?

the temptation conceal the truth is, or should be, slighter now than it was gencration ago,

It is worth while looking the histories of two ill-treated wives of yesterday to see

at

far we have travelled

In

how Jess

than a lifetime.

She left him

ERS WYKE was married in MRS

1801. Her husband treated well her as badly as п could, and she left him afler eight years of misery,

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nge the law was strictly applied. but had also The judge pofed the problém in

these terma:

jury,

not only

One more clement was pre- "No feeling of sympathy on

sent in the case to complete the behalf of an 11-treated woman melodramatic plcture -- man. can be entertained; nor can I

and respectable

honourable, she who appeared at the eleventh can hour. pledged to marry her i

she was free.

listen to the Appeal that made to me, that

shc obtain her divorce today. an- other man is ready to marry her And take her child. The only question is this: Was her mis- conduct caused directly by her husband's cruelty and adultery?”

Moving Case

T was obviously a moving ease. Bllowing himself

Ind in

to be moved the judge took what was perhaps the first step Jowards the principles w that have since been clearly

No, he concluded, it was not. For Mrs Wyke hod

Fes- Hved pectably for more than two In those days a wife nected years after the separation. That and cogently set out in modern

she eventually fell from grace

midi crisers unfaithful- was, perhaps, "more

to be able to add cruelty

to mere

desertion she could

t

ness before

ΟΣ

less harsh or

step away from the refusal to consider the

claim a pardonable," but that made no corecquerees upen the peccant divorce, but he hnd provided difference, She hud forfelted petitioner of vising her sins

She her right 10 freedom, The upon her. to set decree was rescinded.

the

her with ample grounds.

thing locked only one herself tree, and that was money to pay a lawyer's bill.

She took the only course before open to her in the days the Welfare State. She went to work, and from her earnings contrived not only to support herself but to save enough to bring her case before the court, Early in 1903 she was granted her decree.

Before the deeree could, be made absolute something occur- red that mude the Kng's Proct- or's intervention Inevitable. She gave birth to a child.

The whole snil story dut. With her

money

Melodrama

the

con-

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ness.

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"No more electricity in my house, Troutskaw-not while nationalised electricity's, making a profit."

SO

A, beard comes into the news some well-known owners explain➡

London Express Service

WHY I GREW MY BEARD

By LOUISE REID

were

of

3

"The odd thing da men 'grow myself time. But then I beards? Senior Air- found I wasn't saving any was that in those ་་ think," said the judge, that I ought to leak at very

cruftman Brian Brick- time at all. In fact it was days I had conceivable nspect

flaxen cir-wcod, who put up a fight rather more trouble than mop. and cumstance of this case, not only with the RAF authorities to looking after a large shaggy hair. I was start- In the prevent but in regard 10

retain his vigorous two- dog. Baraers in those days led to find myself the the luture; and I feel bound to inter, ONLY six years

N jet from the year growth the other day, had lost the art of trimming growing story of Mrs Fave this petitioner equally sad

beard. ending, absolute ruin which I am cer

says: "Put it down to lazi beards. I was always getting black Pretty had a happter

this upon and

very fain must ensue if I were to

it because it out wrong, particularly Other people I wear Wyke's rescind this decree and dismiss

just don't like shaving." grounds that in Mrs

when I was travelling."

startled, this petition." ease the judge had felt

too, from the strained to disregard.

Other bald extension of It was a

other beards,

So he get rid of it-

way they stared, But the reasons-1 found that of "Reluctantly in some ways. Her lole was one of those the court's discretion,

Serjeant Sulli- basic principle remains true when I questioned some of because I found it gave me sometimes that

and the Queen's Proctor re-

van at 81 still. melodramas

rent fe, A very

the most illustrious beards a certain authority as a mmalna to enforce .lf, where, ne-

has a occur In

motherters girl. of

mop of 19 the

samein bloom.

young man. I was even able young,

had Cessary that,

but family.

hair, she respectable

to put up my price to editors

both hair Sir Compton Mackenzie is now in his second beard, He

"I was 60 when I decide beurd are silvery They do defines it us Elizabethan. " to try again. Barbers are grey.

1

in Dublin grew my first in 1924 to save better now. no longer say

have to fear going in look that he is really ing like a Vandyck and rather vain about

has it trimmed chief petty

courts,

been reduced by her father's Judge said: "In this court, per-

all other that aps above cameroon. When, she found

wre on the way she honesty is the best policy. saved, a baby

for had secretly married him, with she had fallen ill and been taken the result that she found her- to hospital, When she was dis- self lied to a brutal ruman

and her future provided

charged, she was unlit to work.

And (as she put it to the Judge)

"when this young gentleman live with asked me to go und

him It was the only thing left for me to do, as 1-had-expend- ed all my earnings, which I had,

(BAYE

Charles Berry

ALL RIGHT, BOYS, YOU CAN coming out looking like a his beard,

KEEP YOUR SHIRTS ON

How er

Parasitic skin disease, itching eczema etc.

Mitigal

OIL & OIT-TEST

»Dayer » LEVERKUSEN GERMANY.

THREE-

Largent, Morning":

Circulation

row many girls, do you of one of Hollywood's male torsos over their beds?

By Phoebe Young Callfornia would not stir a girl

ach him. The lack of interest in mere physique can be explained by the fact that, unflke men, most I believe

think few. women

about do nat very, very Beefcake, ag Hollywood calls "man" in the abstract.

than is nothing more

a Tha think about publicity agent's pipe dream.

the man rext door, about the man who

It originated as the male works in the rama office, about equivalent of cheesecake the man next to them on the

never obaut

Just (Marilyn Monroe and all that) bus, bu!

but it has not had the same "man" os exemplified by Burt glamorous carcer. Nor will it.

Tony Curtis, Lancaster,

Lex Barker, and Errol Flynn.

practical, and. They are also

dreaming eeldom waste time

they of something they know cannot have.

to Mon of course, react Буд cheesecake

the proper manner, and that extra inch on or off the right places can turn a girl from a nobody to a star. "beefcake" A horrible Bul

PLEASE NOTE ... word, anyway. Girls Ju don't

looks fall for i, and Hollywood is on

Goodness knows what trail in trying to women do admire. the wrong

Some persuade them to. Girls Just dis

Jiko them under- Lot care what a man looks like. nourished, pale-faced, hollow- fat-chested--or fact, most women recoll chocked In

with from really

kattered well-muscled bruised 1orso. The ploture of a "Mr broken noses. Some like them bathing big and fat with bear-like orms: Univerze basking in trunks co the sunny rande of and others like them out and

In

A

SILENT.

• MAJE.

:Largest¦ Afternoon Ofrquistion

and and

SALESMEN

Largest Bunday Dirqulation

them

hearty. Still others, like smooth and sly.

But very few, Hollywood please note, very few like them tall, dark, and handsome.

The “boys” aboss with thalt shirta of:"are, from the top. Burt Lanearter, Jeroný "Čurid,

They stared

now

and

He

every fortnight,

· BRIAN BRICKWOOD-OF-THE-RAF- "Just put it down to laziness,"

Mr Geoffrey Cunliffe, deputy Does beard confer chairman

a

and personality? "No," says Sir. managing director of the our faces, who am I to dispute normal blological Compton, "I can always see £28 million British Alumin- ? It is a

function of the human male to through the beard to the lum Company, describes' grow hair on his face, and I am Įman beneath. A very young his pirate's growth as a normal mute. Finally, I like man has to be very serious "just hair, you know, no a beard. So let's have another to carry a beard."When you feathers.

And just hair dezen oysters.". first grow one everybody colour, not petunia or any- It addition to beards and

Mr I oysters,

Justice He's looking much thing of that sort.

ilkes says

Royco cars (he has three) and

Istit GIB. next?

Franco keeps up the pressure

RENE MacCOLL was sent to Msirid, after Spain and America signed pact on bases. Fila algnment: to

·effecta, ' on the measure

Britain's interests. “

Madrid.

TWO long shadows lie athwart the patch of -sunshine represented by the - Americân agree- Spanish ment on bases. They are caused by Gibraltar maid by -Tito.

i

more Gibraltar in the ominous. Franco never leta his people forget the in- dignity of British occupa- tion of The Rock.

Only few weeks back he made an inflammatory 'speech urging that Gibral- tar be returned to Spain. The sight of the Union Jack southern fluttering on the

corner of the Iberian penin- aula la a constant challenge to Spanish nationalists,

But

Double Talk

in the middle of

"no, foreign lag territory" campaign

this

on Spanish

has come

the bases deal with the U.S.A. all Franco's ot Once And arguments about Gibraltar are in danger of being undermined. For how can Franco continue to resent Britain in, Gibraltar If his own free will, he sets. up half a dozeń now American bases on Spanish soli? -

This is part of the explana- tion for all the double talk that has been going on in Washing- ton and hero in Madrid about Just what has been agreed.

The truth, I have found, la that.

touchy the extremely question of what rights the Americans will, have in their new bases has still to bo work-

ed pit,

Spath wants her dog to dy 'She wants over the bases. Spanish C:Os to run them. She looks uzkonce at the Ides of American soldiers bing tried for misdemeanours by

American,

And she

not Spanish, courts. takes a dim view of American

in M.P.& patrolling Spanish

towns:

The Americans are not at all concessiona on eager to make these points. They expect the Spanish deal to follow the pat- tern set: for U.S. beses in other European countries.

A Tough Nut

jolder' and after that you always knew I would never Madeira wine, snuff, old Rolls-brotars

But Spain is a special, case and a very tough nut to crack. And the astute Franco knows perfectly well that he cannot keep singling for Gibraltar he fimuláncourly sets up as during

certáln:. the United

need

of every inst touch of diplomacy, every possible piece of tact when the the comes, for her 10,000 mon to take over the bases.

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stay the same and they say shave and I never have. And Radical politics. And what you states will have

;

'He doesn't seem to change now I never can because my like you like. fat all,' This is really quite an wife wouldn't know me if I

Robert Gibbings, author and did. And she wouldn't like traveller, says, "Women are so advantage."

cally the only way in which we can show our superiority,

:

Astege Spaniard put it to me: tar from the Americans teach- ing us, to Jitterbug, I think they may return to the U.S. able to play the castanets." Änd, then Tito, America words an automatic right to use the Spanish bascu of her European allies Suit Spain turns face towards, Com- munist 'anti-Catholle Yugejavia, If Tito is attacked, what then? Would Spain lee America uso ber bases for supporting the Red haretic? That is something else that has got to be worked out,

Serjeant Alexander Mar. that." Mr Cunliffe clips his marvellous nowadays. They can tin Sullivan, QC, now retired own beard every Sunday do anything a man can do ex to his native Dublin, has morning and broods on the cept grow a beards, It is brdet

"not

quite folly of men who shave, sported 3 Vandyck" for more than 30

Worst was over "Another reason I had a years. He had the best of

shrapnel bullet through my reasons for growing it.

throat in the Dardanelles during Professor Thomas Bodkin, art the first World War. As the "Shaving always rritated

expert, whose waggling Shavian years went on I had we add ide my throat. In 1919 I had beard, twinkling eyes and Irish less with for a razor to take the tonsillitis and I decided to brogue have recently been de same course. I was at sea a

of good deal, and shaving in grow a beard to see if it lighting the least artistie would give me any protec television audiences: "I started heavy sea with my old cut- 35 years ago throat 'could be very dangerous. tion. I found it did, and I've growing a beard

just to save the trouble of So you see, I feel safe, I feel never touched a razor since.

wait my to

just that much superior to the shaving. I had opportunity. It came when I indies, if my collar is dirty was in hospital for a few days. nobody can tee ii, and I save- I went in clean shaven and came myself a lot of time and trouble. out with quite a respectable roddish fringe. The worst stage was over." Prefessor Bodkin's beard is now snow white. He

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

WIEN

ÜST-BAHNHOP

Curiously enough, no! "kooner, had|| | [seen="Mrs.

Muclean, off, than whom. should I see arriving,BHE

Berta 17

calls

R a "pan handle piece."-

1

For beginners

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In A Year?

The location of the bases is not stated, although- Americans

Author Benn Levy is another "There are disadvantages, of here make no secret in conver who has an inbred bestilty to course, In the Cook Islands Isation of having their eye on staving but he persevered with was taken for a missionary and sports near Madrid, Barcelon

and Seville, and naval bases 'nt. his razor until the beginning of narrowly escaped being put In Then he went down the pulpit one Sunday morning, the war. with frundee, was in horpital In Tahiti the natives took one for a fortnight

arted having seen anything like

thave. The board thus started hay

and Cadiz.

but when will fhirigs start to

'But

roll? When will the American

and couldn't look at my beard and, hover chnicians and CA for all

It

has never lecked back. I calcu- before, took me for a spirit. I

whom Amerka diplomatic in

status-besin considerable task?

full'

their

late that he has written at least weighed 20 stone at the time."" one play in the time saved in the bathroom. Mr Levy insists Mr Gibbings's beard, at first = | At the Spanish Foreign Office, that it is not a question of rich, deep chestnut, has now a efficials thrugs únic roll their vanity. "I don't think I look venerable silver quality. He eyes. Perhaps in a year," they any better with a beard,

But runs up the sides of his face But, the pewspapers leefully

enthusiasm without then I don't look much without 'with the scissorn every few days, 1 hail thei;'announcement: · iNDE”

a beard either."

The human male,

is to

Ho offers this advice to be President Eisenhower ing altogether. If you do you

iginners;. “Don't just stop shay. Even mère: money for

when I arrived at | Madrid

look like a scrubbing brush. ...James:

Robertson Justice Start with a small patch on the airport, I had 46 wait until 411 (Henry VIII in the Sword as chin and gradually cut down the the Americans had boots cleared the Road) has wom his fierce area of shaving so that the before, Lapid collect my ied beard since 1930. If the board extends gradually, ** This pórt, galimas frukts of the plot, Lord God Almighty decreed makes for a bélter shape and w

somebody waid. "Aktuelónem Dist that we should grow their on ribbor quality of growin?