New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-16
Playwright Arrested in
New Jersey by Novel
Twist Of Law.
GIVES CASH BOND
TO COVER ALIMONN
Money Due in Separation Suit
Daughter Says There Was
Conspiracy Against Mother.

George Broadhurst, playwright, re-
fused to come to New York, where his
wife, Ida Raymond Broadhurst, has
been waiting for him with a process,
because of unpaid alimony Of about
$1,000, so Mrs. Broadhurst did the next
best thing she sent to New Jersey for
him. He was arrested in bed at At
lGntic City
The arrest in New Jersey was made
possible under a discovery proceeding
brought by Mrs. Broadhurst in that
state to establish his financial status.
Since his recent return from Europe
TIE author of the MAN Of the Hour"
al d Bought and Paid For" and some
n ore recent successes has spent most
of his time at the New Jersey water
ing place. lie had been living in cot
tage at Iowa Avenue and the Board
walk, and there he was taken into Gus
tody, being taken out of bed.
Broadhurst gave a cash bond Of
$1,000 and was released. The money
he deposited ne will never get back,
as it will be applied 20 the payment Of
the alimony. wnIcn the supreme Court
in New York fixed at $3.50 a month at
the time his wife won her separation
When Mrs. Broadhurst brought suit
she mentioned the name OF Diva MI
ralda, an actress, who had appeared IN
several of her husbands plays and for
whom the wife said the playwright had
a strong attachment. Mrs. Broadhurst
a ked for $4,000 year alimony, bas-
ing this demand on the large earnings
of her husband, which, she said,
amounted to tl50000 year.
Broadhurst answered that he had
X
ing an annual income of S4S $50 year.
But he declared that his whole estate
amounted to only S125,000, from which
he drew $4,000 year, adding that his
future success as a dramatist was un-
certain. because. zone characteristic
absolutely necessary for playwritlng is
il. agination. and that is an attribute
of youth" He added, CAS- one grows
older he becomes more conservative,
and his imagination is not so vivid
The BroadhurSts have a daughter,
Lillian, twenty-four years old, who
has been living with her mother. She
stated a few months ago that an agent
of her father offered her S25 a week to
pay for her support if she would leave
her mother, which she refused 10 do.
"My reply was" said Miss Broad
hurst. that when my father and the
other men who conspired with him
have finally succeeded in putting my
mother out of her house and into the
street. then I'll go to a hotel but until
the conspiracy works out I'll stay with
M mother"
Mrs. Broadhurst said in her applica-
ton to have her husband punished Tor
contempt that he had transferred al!
his interests TO a corporation ana
placed his brother in charge OF ms
f; Ancial affairs, to defraud her OF her
alimony. The court adjudged Broad
hurst in contempt, but on his return
from Europe the playwright evAdedi
New York. going TO Philadelphia ana
then to Atlantic City, so that process
against him here could not De enforced.
Enforcing an alimony order OF the
New York Supreme Court in New Jer,
sew was something new in the way OF
making mon pay up who successfully
Il, dge the Alimony Club, and, accord,
ing TO Terence J. McManus, counsel
fol the wife, is setting precedent that
will create a stir among those VINO
have always looked upon, New jersey
as a good place to go to be safe from
alimony obligation.