ALICE DELYSIA

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 20, 6 April 1938, Page 3

ALICE DELYSIA

DIVORCE A SUIT HEARING • LOVE-LETTERS READ LONDON, Eeb. 2. Alice.' Delysia, the actress, spoke last niglit . about the “marvellously happy---' years of her marriage—that her husband is seeking mg MPiiris court to have dissolved. riipTtanie is Georges Denis. J.ove letters .from him t 0 her were read during the hearing of the ease yesterday. ThCyTpld how pleased lie was to heyr pl'i'lieEii'suecess on the English - stage. >£»J|y|j3&ia married him in London in Blms«fcThe.v have lived apart for the years. She is in London hack from America. -y “I want to stay in England- for ever,” said Delysia. “1 love it. When we were married 1 made it clear 1 could never live in Paris.” 3L Denis is claiming a divorce under a provision of the French civil code which demands that a. wife shall live with her husband and follow him “Whereever he considers it is in Ins best “intersts to live.” England Cave Me All” “If I had to live in Paris,” said Delysia. ‘where 1 haven’t played since 1014. I could never bo as happy as 1 have been in England. Everything 1 possess England has given me. “The firsti four years of our marriage were marvellously happy • sometimes my husband would come over to see me at week-ends, sometimes i would go over to- our home in Paris, half of which I paid for. ‘Wo spent our holidays at my house in Biarritz. “Tlimi I went on a tour to Australia. It was at that time he demanded a divorce. 1 said 1 would agree. .1 am not opposing the proceedings in Paris.” Yesterday’s court hearing was formal. The ease will eoino up again, in a week.