Show 'll THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 8 1836 r i am is a REWO SPECA- - f ' V £ 1 £' Sf' V v& On Florida’s Sunny Sands Lies the Net vest Mecca of Easy Tlier Isn’t Muck to Do in the Nevada Divorce Capital Except to Patronize tke Bara with the Drug tor Cowboy aa '4 " Divorce Seekers the Artist Indicate in the Drawing at RigttL Noivadays x i ' ri —I v V y 's RENO OR MIAMI! The New Florida Divorce Mecca Claims the Advantage in Entertainment and Sport at Right Above for Instance a Graphic Photo of a Girl Diver Taking Off Above a PooL f4 & fivVTiirrvmv SHE “TIPPED OFF BROADWAY When France Williams Musical Revue Star Announced She Would Seek a Divorce for “Incompatability" Someone Inquired: ‘‘Going to RenoTJ’ “No” An-- ’ “Miami 1” And That awered France Started a Southward iTrek of New York Seeker of Easy Decree Moon over Miami shine on my State and me First came the boom then market gloom And the rolling sea Moon over Miami shine on the £x we’re in: A tourist gain— then a hurricane Where the sunshine’s been! Hark to the song of the ticker and the phones Hark to the rolling bones— Hear how the cops pull a new gambling raid Just as soon as bets are made I Moo-oo-oo- n long-await- ly unassailable logic so—a over three-month- You can’t keep a good State down For quick divorce Js now in force s’ journ in Florida constituted a legal residence for tax pur- In-- n poses it also con- stituted a legal residence that entitled the resident to sue in the Florida courts —To Be Sung (if Absolutely Neo- essary) to the Refrain of “Moon Over Miami” by the Messrs Edgar Leslie and Joe Burke aa Immediate b en-- " for (HERE is it would appear a particularly pendulumlike brand of Destiny that attends to State matters down Florida way For nearly a decade now yon can check the ticks of the pendulum as it has swung from prosperity to misfortune and back Tick —and you had the again real estate boom of the middle 1920’s Tock —and the boom flopped with the stock market crash' Leila Stepp and Grace Stewart Broadway Tick— and the tourists once Are Shown Down in Miami All Showgirls the into again began pouring Ready for Bridlepath and Beach Leila State’s winter resorts tock — and Has Announced She’ll Sue for Divorce there was a hurricane that disfrom Her Estranged South American looked like almost couraged what Husband Another boom Tick — and the winter No —circumstances it appears rather resumed their loyalty lured to no indeliberate attempt to steal than considerable extent by the promise of Reno’s any — and no are thunder high-stak- e and open gambling Tock — less an august bodyresponsible than the United and the Florida authorities spurred by States Supreme Court is now being cited a gang shooting of a year ago clamped by Florida lawyers as the authority for the lid down on the roulette wheels the the atresort State’s dice games and the horse rooms and left tractiveness for seekers of rapid simple swank night-spo- ts with huge investand uncomplicated divorces ments in expensive floor shows holding Taxes curiously enough provided the the bag foundation for what may become a genAnd now just when things had looked eral transfer of migratory divorce-seeke- rs somewhat unpromising for the future from Reno to Miami and Palm there’s been another big TICE (Don’t Beach and the other Florida resorts-Taxlet the reports of a splendid season in —and the outlawing of Reno diMiami fool you: remember the gag vorces in a number of other States founded in truth of the night club Probably it wapartly in the hope of proprietor there who had a capacity attracting motion picture studios to crowd and remarked gleefully: “AnFlorida —at the time when California other night like this and we’ll only lose higher taxes into effect— that the put be even week this It I”) $30000 may southern resort State made its low-ta- x has the that stopped swinging bid There is no State income tax in pendulum altogether that Florida is due for a Florida and with the obvious hope of obconstantly increasing popularity among taining the presence of a greater numo money-spendivisitors ber of wealthy residents the State For Florida’s big new attraction is the a law providing that any person fact that it is fast becoming a divorce passed who resided within its boundaries for mecca that already has advantages over or three months was to be conArkansas and other States period sidered a legally domiciled Floridian —and which may yet set Reno begging That meant that a person who lived for mercy! in some other State for most of the year It all has come about without any but spent three months in Florida was seeming intent on the part of the leglegally a resident of Florida and subject islators of the State who though they to its tax laws the legislation was chalwelcome the influx of money from winter lenged as to its constitutionality but colonists have long displayed an attitaken before the United States Supreme tude toward the statutory moralities far Court was held to be valid stricter than the Nevada Now as stated it seems likely that solons Reno for instance lets almost the Florida legislators weren’t thinking sort of gambling run pretty openly any of divorce at all when they passed that whereas you can’t place a bet legally law but it didn’t take the Florida maexcept on the lawyers long to apply it chines at the race-tracIf they reasoned —and with apparent snow-dodge- band more recently she has let it become known that she intends to file suit in Florida as soon as her “three months’ residence period is up Gay Orlova blonde beauty of the same show has made a similar announcement regarding Eddie Finn the theatre usher she married when she was a featured showgirl with Carroll’s Vanities a few years ago It was Gay’s marriage to Eddie that prompted Carroll to wire her: “If you had to marry an usher why didn’t you at least pick one out of the orchestra instead of the second balcony?’’ It seemed for a while as though the divorce of that famous exteam of Ramon and Rosita would go to the Florida courts Dancing now with his new partner —whom he named “Renita” after his former wife and partner had obtained a court decision that legally entitles her to be known as “Rosita” — Ramon is in Miami When he arrived he said he would take advantage of the Florida divorce laws But his manager has since pointed out that Ramon would have no time for a Miami divorce his contracts called for divorce! And since the grounds for divorce in Florida include that of “in-co- easy-goin- free-and-ea- pari-mutu- el ks Requirement Moreover since the United States Supreme Court had upheld the Florida residence law a Florida divorce under such conditions would bear more of the odor of legal sanctity than the Nevada decrees — many of which have been held invalid in New York Illinois California and other States True the Nevada law calls for a residence of only six weeks — half that of the Florida" statute But the Southern lawyers pointed out a six weeks’ stay in Reno is likely to be a good deal of a bore whereas three months in Florida — December January and February let us say — is the average winter visiting time of many thousands who aren’t interested in divorce at all There was another point too Of late almost anyone who arrives in Reno and takes up residence there is automatically presumed by the world at large to be there for the sole purpose of obtaining a divorce there doesn’t seem to be any other reason for going to Reno But if the same person were to go to one of the Florida resorts it would attract no attention since thousands of people go to Florida three-month- es each winter the h iV Dorothy F Jar- -' Annulment of Her in Marriage Chicago Dealt Reno Divdrcea a Lethal Blow -- ert Wachstman gagement in Chicago after the Miami stint and he wouldn’t have time to fulfill residence provision the Perhaps after the Chicago engagement — and then maythere may be a lay-obe either Reno or Miami Anyway Ramon says he’ll never marry again because “dancers should be wedded to their tended securing a divorce "Going to Reno?" queried someone "Rope" said Frances “Miami haven’t you heard?" That started it But Frances was by no means alone Leila Stepp Broadway showgirl who is now in Miami with Earl Carroll’s Palm Island Casino floor show has long declared that she wants a divorce from her South American hus No one has yet figured out whether Park Avenue follows Broadway in these matters or vice versa but anyway the Social Register knows all about the new rush of Miami divorce seekers Clarence W Davis New York lawyer and socialite has filed a Miami suit on the customary grounds of incompatibility Mrs Mary Delafield Kramer estranged from the very social A Ludlow Kramer is in Florida and the society gossip column star When Frances and her husband RobNew York theatrical agent decided to part not long ago the former told the reporters that she in- 1111 three-month- s’ ff art” Kiss ristans SnSlssls be three-month- s’ re- quirement Mrs Paul Bcmie who was Grace Stewart a former “Miss America” also has filed her suit with Miami court Reno has been tak-- I ing it on the chin from a good many sources of late Not long ago Superior Court Judge Oscar F Nelson in Chicago gave the most famous of divorce mills a knockout blow when he granted to Mrs Dorothy Jardine an annulment of her marriage to Charles A Jardine of New York In so doing he held I Mrs dine anyway Broadway long accustomed to think of Reno as the mecca of all those desirous of severing irksome marriage ties seems to have obtained its introduction to Florid as an easy divorce haven through Frances Williams blonde revue OmrrlfM t ists say she’ll file suit as soon as she meets s’ -- newly-discover- easy-divor- three-Month- one? rs well-to-d- Lovely Rosita of the Former Team of Ramon and Rosita Ramon AnInternationally Famous Dance Team nounced He’d Apply for a Miami Divorce from Her but Residence Found He Couldn’t Fulfill the most of the other reasons Nevada courts accept why g not a Florida divorce instead of a Reno Reno divorce from his former wife back in 1931 was void “because Nevada's six weeks’ residence law enables divorce seekers to practice fraud in the Nevada courts merely by pretending to be bona fide residents of that State” The divorce void Judge Nelson held Jardine’s subsequent marriage therefore also was invalid In his recent book “Parting of the Ways” Theodore Apstein secretary and general counsel of the Divorce Reform League of America calls attention to a similar court decision in New York This is the now famous case of Lefferts vs Lefferts "For IS years" says Mr Apstein "Mrs Elsie Lefferts had been married to one Julius Oppenheimer a New York diamond dealer They fell out and taking her two sons she went to live with her mother After a time she evoked in Dr Henry M Lef- a heart interest ferts Brooklyn physician a “She went to Reno lived there six months ( the residence requirement has since been reduced to six weeksj and got her decree She returned to Brook -lyn and— in bringing suit against her divorced husband to compel him to support her two sons— swore that Brooklyn was her residence "The war intervened and the former Mrs Oppenheimer married Dr Lefferts Twelve years passed and then one day Dr Lefferts refused to pay one of his wife’s charge accounts She The sued him for a legal separation Supreme Court gave her one along with an order for $25 a week alimony Dr Lefferts - promptly appealed— on the ground that her Reno divorce from her former husband was invalid and hence that he Dr Lefferts was not legally her husband at all 1 “The Appellate Division upheld his contention and so did the Court of Appeals The gist of their decision was that the Reno divorce was void because Mrs Lefferts prompt return to Brooklyn after her Nevada decree indicated that she had not been sincere in her expressed intention to become a bona 6de resident of Nevada 1 “And you can see how almost any Reno decree obtained by a person who returns to New York immediately after receiving it would seem to stand in the same light" Similar decisions have cast doubts as to the recognition of Mexican Cuban Paris and Arkansas divorces It looks as though Miami— with its residence law upheld by the Supreme Court — is in line to become the divorce mecca of the immediate future |