Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 1 | Pretty Salt Lake Girl Will Divorce Fickle Stage Star

Pretty retty Salt Lake Girl Will Divorce Fickle Stage Star Loves Love's Dream of Life With Matinee Idol Rudely Shattered Once m mi mOre re the golden glamour which surrounds surrounds the hero of the footlights lias as turned to a tinsel show and words have become becom tinkling br brass ss In 1910 the Willard Mack stock company playing in what Is now now the Rex theatre had bad James H. H Renny Benny ranking as second man In Inthe inthe inthe the company Renny Benny was a dashing dashing dashing dash dash- ing enough figure as a matinee Idol but his charms were hardly less potent as he appeared on The streets of Salt Lake attired In his Prince Albert coat high silk hat blythe and arid debonair swinging his stick In the most approved s fashion It was thus that he lie won the heart of Kathl Kathleen en McCooey pretty Salt take Lake girl On August 23 1910 he led he her to to- the altar b ve dd tt l was not th the happiest and and nd mi un mi unI I October 11 1911 scar scarcely ely more I than a year ear after their marriage the heart of J James iI mes es Renny Benny turned 1 to gr green en fields and pastures new Mrs Renny Benny a drawn complaint complaint com corn plaint filed in the Third district court True to tradition he left his nin year old t tee e year old ear ear- b bride 1 e and she has neither seen nor heard from l him m directly since then She asks for tor divorce on the grounds of desertion No Xo alimony is asked