Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

summing her provocative self on the
steps of the Washoe County court
house, in the center of Reno wait
ing to tell her troubles to a sympathetic judge.
And behaving, too, just like any other American
Joe on holiday hundred miles away from home
and his home ties And you know how that is
The screwballs who come here to dissolve the
messes they've made of their marriages shouldn't
happen even to Reno, except that the community
long ago asked for EN-
The many marital miXups brought to this town
FOR solution are past belief. At least they're past
belief to normal customers like you and who
lead placid lives with only occasional domestic tenn
pests to add spice to double harness.
It takes genius-and don't tell me that isn't the
right word-to establish residence in Reno to get
two divorces simultaneously.
Six months ago Reno sheltered a babe-and
don't tell that isn't the right word either-who,
at the end OF her SIX weeks residential period OBJ
tained divorce decree one day and on the follow
ing day drove Is miles to Carson City, the capital
q Nevada, where she obtained a second decree
from second man.
l forbear to call No. 2 a second husband as
il seems to me-despite my dearth Of legal knowl-
edge-that bgamy must enter into this picture
somewhere along the way. For without benefit
of divorce, this doll had married No. 2 rich OLD
Codger, after love in cottage with her original hus
band, poor but honest Elmer, had paed
She was at least partially within her legal rights
In going to Carson City, in another county than
Reno's Washoe, for the second divorce. Once she
had met Nevadas six weeks residential require
Tnent, ii her privilege to get divorce in any
part of the state.
Our heroine thus shucled two husbands, or rea.
Sonable facSmiles thereof, within as hours Appar-
emily this cleaned the slate and salved her
science, which had obviously taken no part in the
conversation up TO that time Anyway, little Rose
bud returned to Reno on the third day and married
third husband.
Now this third husband was an obvious fancy.
pants gigelo With the practiced eye of experience,
Reno looked him and judged the course Know
ing that he was marrying Tootsie solely for the
large cash settlement made by her second husband,
Reno bet Six two and even that the marriage would
last only from three to six months.
aZU in lONn with fhn OF and
married him. And was Reno right! Babe is back
in Reno today, divorcing her third husband But
she is minus that handsome financial settlement.
Number three has every penny except a few paltry
thousands to see her through her third divorce
and buy her suitable of hunting toys to aid in
tracking down another rich sucker
The longer linger here, the more I am con-
WINGED that Boccaccio was born six centuries too
soon. Boccaccio is the boy to do journalistic JUS
tce to this national hangout and hangover of sex
unvarnished and unabashed
Boccaccio, with Scheherazade and Bret Hart on
the rewrie desk, could turn out immortal best
seller the situation. Scheherazade would give the
woman's angle TO this opus and Hart the essential
horse opera atmosphere that pervades Nevada.
There is no blinking the fact that certain per-
centage Of divorces do come here and behave
like alley cats It's not large percentage but ii
is enough TO have put the divorce colony in bad
odor. These are women with neither morals nor
manners, and the pity of 1t is that so often they
have the money and the family name TO make them
conspicuous not only in Reno but anywhere in
the nations headlines.
Nor can Reno deny that there is still in this
town, despite the national manpower drainage Incl
dent to the war, group of despicable, nogood
males who prey on divorces who have plenty of