New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-08
ETHEL BARRYMORE SAID
TO DESIRE DIVORCE
Los Angeles Publication Says
Papers Are On Way to
This CITY.
PLANS KEPT CLOSE SECRET
Actress Consulted Relatives Be
fore Taking Step Against Rus
sell G.. Colt, Whom She
Married Two Years Ago.
fRy Telegraph 20 The Tribune J

fRy Telegraph 20 The Tribune
LOS Angeles, July Ethel Barry
more. the actress. whose marriage 10 Rus
sell Griswold Colt. two years ago, was
one Of the romances OF the stage is
preparing 10 sue for divorce. according to
persistent reports here Miss BARRYMORE
viii neither affirm nor deny the report
Shc will not ever receive newspaper
reporter. but ci-cumstantial reports
have emanated from her closest friends
| According 10 a new spaper story pub
| lished here to dav, messenger bearing
a Jacket Of legal Papers is on his wav
to New York He is to arrive there Sun
/ day night. The sui. Is to be fled Mon
day, and is TO charge the only offence
J on which . divorce is granted ~ New
York
Miss Barrymore. who Is playing at the
Mason Opera House this week. has made
a hotel at Hollywood her home during
| her stay. She has received only her
closest friends, and has avoided social
affairs Yesterday she went 10 a nearby
| canyon which she and several friends
explored. They did not return last night
until a short time before she was due
on the stage.
! Miss Barrymore, according 10 her
friends. has been anxious to keep her
/ plans a secret, and has purposely rc-
/ II. Ill
! pers in her action have been filed. She
intends TO return to New York In ample
time TO appear I'm court. they say.
The domestic trouble, so far as the af-
| fairs Of the actress and her young hus-
band are concerned, is said 10 have man
ifested itself to friends months ago.
Colt is said 10 have sown wild oats eH
tensiveiy before his marriage. 1t was
supposed thu. he would settle down after
his marriage.
| Miss BARRYMORE has been the guest OF
| Mr.. and Mrs A. G. Fisk, OF New York,
at the Hotel Hollywood On Wednesday
| Miss Barrymore and Miss Drew. of her
| company. went before . notary. where
| papers were prepared. These were then
| intrusted to q messenger. who is now
carrying them TO New York. John Drew
Miss Barrymore's uncle, and her brother,
Jack Barrymore. are said TO approve her
decision.
Ethel BARRYMORE and Russell Grlswold
Colt son Of Samuel Pomeroy colt. presi-
dent Of the United States Rubber Com
panv. we're married on March l5, 1909, In
| Hyde Park, twelve miles from Boston, hy
Father James j Chittick, rector OF the
| Church of the Most Precious Blood. The
wedding took place in the parish house.
and the only witnesses were Roswell Colt.
brother Of the bridegroom, and Jack"
| Barrymore, brother of Miss Barrymore.
who gave the bride away.
Miss Barrymore was playing I'm "Laj>
| Frederick" at tho time OF her marriage,
which came as a surprise, the fact that
she was engaged 70 Mr. colt not being
| known until a few DAYS before. Before che
and Nj. colt we're married it was neces-
| sary TO obtain four disponsations, Mr.. Colt
not being a Catholic.
Before her marriage ii was rumored on
more than one occasion that Miss Barry
mentioned as finances of the actress were
| Lawrence Irving, son OF the late Sir Henry
! Irving Gerald Du Maurier son Of George
| Du Maurier, and Ernest Lawford. the Eng
| lsh actor In July, 1906. Miss Barrymore
announced her engagement 20 Captain
! Harry Graham, Of the Coldstream Guards,
but the engagement was broken tue follow
| ins year. Rumors Of her engagement to
| persons Of the nobility were also spread
| abroad. but the actress always emerged
| from these alleged troths unmarried
! On November "a, 1870. a son was born 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Colt at the home Of August
Belmont No. "A East 34th street, which
Mr.. Colt had taken for the winter. Jack"
and Lionel Barrymore. brothers of Mrs.
! Colt. were at their sisters homo when the
baby arrived.
In February. 1910, Mrs. Colt was strick-
en- with an aggravated attack Of laryngi-
ts. being forced to suspend her engage
ment in "Nlid-Channel." I'm which she was
appearing q the Empire Theatre. in this
city She had left the stage for short
time after her marriage, and II was said
that her husband fully approved OF her
continuing in her profession.
II was IN November, 1910, that rImors
of an estrangement between the former
Ethel barrymore and her husband were
| circulated. The couple were at that time
! I'm New Orleans, where Mrs Colt was
playing in "Mid-Channel" Both Mr Colt
and his wife we're emphatic in their de-
mails Of any coldness between them.
Ethel Barrymore came by her leaniugs
for the stage by birthright she IS a
daughter Of the late Maurice and Geor-
ge Drew Barrymore. Her first success
on the stage was gained as n member of
the Empire Theatre Company. headed by
John Drew her uncle. in 1895. For the
| next two years she appeared I'm London.
being member Of Sir Henry Irving.
company She first appeared as q star in
| Captain Jinks' at the Garrick Theatre
! I'm 1859 Then followed successes In 'Cous-
in Kate" Sunday" a Dole House"
Alice Sit by Fire" The Silver Box"
Her Sister," Lady Frederick" and mid.
Channel"
Miss Barrymore was carefully educated
and f. accomplished as linguist and A
musician She was graduated from the
convent Of the Sacred Heart. In Philadel
pha and IS now thirty-three years old,
having been born in 1873
Russell Griswold Colt is about twenty
eight years old. After attending school in
| Concord X II. and elsewhere he entered
| business and was for a time interested in a
rubber company st Baltic. Conn His
,no,her was noted os one Of the most
beautiful women In Rhode Island and bia