FROM STAGE

NZ Truth, Issue 1301, 20 November 1930, Page 8

FROM STAGE

TO BAR

Wife Gave Epitome of Husband's Career

DANCER'S SUIT

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Sydney Rep.) T IFE is but a bar,, and many men —and women-r-merely bibbers. William Shakespeare niight not have liked that, though, he occasionally went m for a pot of nut brown, foam-capped ale himseif^,; „:: CITHER wsty, there's no law against !'■-*' a paraphrase, and this has to do with, a.- stage; manager, who acquired the part,, according to his wife, of an elbow-bender, ahd became as adept at that as he did at running a show. The name's George . Ridge Carey. He's a stage manager m Sydney, and the other day hiswife, Eileen Aurora, asked for a.i divorce m Mr. ; Justice Stephen's Divorce. Court because Carey had deserted her ; Eileen, mai&en name McLennan, was a chorister of 24 ifchen she married Carey, two years older; at Collingwood, Melbourne, during May, • 1921. '-. Shortly after the marriage they settled iri Sydney/and m course of time a little boy came along to' bless the union, i and with his advent she left the stage to settle down and live happily ever after. - I That was what she thought — ' but she didn't, as it N turned out. When the little . chap was about 18 months old," Carey got out of work, and began to bend his elbow. The result was that m order to keep herself and the child, she went out and obtained employment again. She took an engagement m 'New Zealand, and while she was m the Shaky Isles, she said, she sent • Carey some of her salary to support him. The child she had placed with some. friends. ,\ While m New Zealand she heard that the mone,y she was sending was being spent m drink by her husband. She left Carey, but m 1924 she saw him when he was sober and asked him •to return. , N Carey must have (been sorry for . himself, for/he kept on coming to see her where she was staying with some friends, iand eventually she promised to go back. He said he would never look down into the • limpid depths^ of the pot again, . and so they came .together once ' more. . . But only for eight weeks. "He became impossible," , said Mrs. Carey to her .counsel, Mr. Hutton (instructed by Messrs. Braye and Malcolmson). "He was out of work when the final trouble took, place. If he was not drunk, he would play patience. I did not seem to be m the house at all. It seemed as though he did not want me. When he got drunk he would abuse me." Mrs. Carey said that she saw him again,' but he 1 refused to see her. Once, indeed, she took the' boy to see him, but. he wouldn't speak to her. ' T.he ;wife iwas^granted a decree ''nisi i . '77. 'Vexeunt. ' ' - ■ -„-'