The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-09
LEAVES HIS WIFE BECAUSE
 SHE HATES kMERICA--SHE IS SUING HIM FOR DIV URGE

New York. Dec. 9-Supreme Court Justice Seabury decided yesterday that Frederick G. Latham. manager for c. w.. Dillingham;. the theatrical producer, must pay $50 a week alimony and | counsel fee of S35O in the suit for sep aratinn brought against him by his wife, Constance Cynthia Beaufoy La tham. an Engl shWoman. who has play ed in many theatrical companies both here and in England.
 She protests that she Is destitute. and that while she had been forced to the hyrothecation of her jewels. her husband has been living in luxury at West Forty sixth street apartment house with woman known as Mrs. Latham. whom Mrs. Constance Latham explains. she does not even know. Her papers also make reference to "a certain prima donna. whose name does not appear in any of the affida- wits.
 The Lathams were married in Lon- don In 1895. and they have one daugl1- ter. Cynthia. who is 13. During part of their married life husband and wife have lived on opposite sides of the son for that. Mrs. Latham complains
 that when her husband did come to Europe in 1907. although he had not seen their child for four years. he de- ] layed his visit to her until he had taken certain pr'ma donna
 through Europe to her home in Ger many.
 At allusions to the prina donna MT Latham rebels. declaring that the wo- | man referred to was one of the most management. He complains that his wife seeks to have the court draw sinister inferences' from his assoc a. tions with "a certain prima donna, !, although in those associations there was nothing improper in word or deed.
 | In 1907. he explains. the singer was taken ill and MT. Dillingham; asked | him to escort her to her home in Eur | ope, and that the passage was made l in the, company of nurse. two maids. and two traveline companions The
 prima donna suffered a relanse in Paris. and he was obliged to continue ] with her all the way to Frankfort. i Latham includes in his answer a letter he wrote in 1908 to Abraham H.
 Hummel the lawyer. since disharred.
 in answer to one of his on the subject
 that for years he had endeavored to i support two homes. and that his wife hates America and everything pertain ! ing to it.
 "This hatred has caused her to lose
 sight of her marital duties" he as-
 serted.
 ! He assured the lawyer that she mar
 ried him only because she tl1ought it
 would be a good thing for her artistic
 success. an ambition ip which he says 1 she has ''s;gnally failed" He speaks of her wounded pride. and suggests | that the smart of this wound causes her to look on roe less as husband l than as a machine to provide the 1 wherewithal."
 | Mr Dillingham; has his say in the case.
 He supports Latham's contention i She said so in his presence. MT. Dill ! lin gham asserts and declared that she ! wou'4 not 1'v.o rare if her husband had a palace for her.
 These charges of disresnect for the
 country. in whose courts she is suing, | is met by Mrs. Latham with the retort | that they are haseless. and she ex- presses her fear that the mana~er has | confounded her with ''the Mrs. La tham'' with whom the defendant is | resi6 She is now staying, at the
 Martha Washineton Hotel, and con | tends that her husband neither denies his ability to support her nor that ne l is living with another woman while she is in want.
 Latham's salary under D:llinsham Is l s175 a week. to which rust be added | a percentage in the profits of 'The ] $50 a week. He has managed in his i day the Metropolitan Opera House. and cond ucted the tour of Bernhardt and | Coouelin in 1900.
 1 Among her own theatrical associa- | tions Mrs. Latham makes reference to | Sir Charles Wyndham and Jul'a Mar 1 lowe. in whose company she played ~n | America before the actress joined for | tune with MT. Sothern.