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Show TEARLE'S ALIMONY CUT U5 OS g e INJURED WIFE SARCASTIC MRS. ROBERTA CORWIN HILL. Saj'S He Was Playing in "Elevating. "Ele-vating. a Husband" When .He Eloped.,' By Internal ional News Service. N1CW YORK, Sept. IS. Conway Tcaiio.- tho actor, who recontly returned from abroad . with Mrs. Roberta jV tangos Corwin Hill, notod for her beauty and many romances, ro-mances, today pleaded before Supreme Court Justlpo Blschoff to have Ida wife's alimony cut from 565 a week to SIS a week. The court reduced the alimony to 525 a week pending the decision of a referee . regarding Tearlo's earning capacity. ca-pacity. Toarlo was playing in 'ISlovating a Plusband" last March, when ho suddenly quit his rolo and 'eloped "with Mrs. Hill. In Juno Tearlo's wife, .Tosephlna Park Tearle, obtained a decroo of divorce and SGC a wock alimony. Applying to have the alimony reduced, Tuarln declared that he did not earn $65 a week the year round, but only during the theatrical season. Speaking of her husband's recent adventure ad-venture Mrs. Teorlo told the court: "Jle became Infatuated with a notorious woman and eloped with her, remaining with her for six months. Alter his departure, de-parture, the ploy, "Elevating a Husband," Hus-band," continued to run In New York for a long tlmo after my husband 'elevated' himself downward. Ills Immoral, disgraceful dis-graceful and scandalous conduot Is ro-' ro-' sponsible Tor his small Income." ( Mrs. Tearle hinted that her husband recently re-cently refused an offer of 5400 a week to appear In the moving pictures. She said that sho hud heard he might play this season In a Belasco company at $200 a wook, "unless ho again gots weary of his labor as an uctor and again decides to travel with the woman who is reputed to have a liberal supply of money and to have provided him with money and presents." pres-ents." Tearle said that under no consideration would he think of acting for moving pictures pic-tures at $400 a week. "It Is considered beneath the dignity of an actor to got in moving pictures," Many managers, he added, dislike to engage uctors for the "legitimate," who havo appeared in tho "movies." "I am not receiving money from Roberta Rob-erta Hill," Tcaiie continued, "or from any one else. Such a statement was made to prejudice the court. It is true I have been Indiscreet, but 1 am not so unprincipled un-principled as to accept money from a woman." |