The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-15
JACK DEANS WIFE SUES FANNIE WARD
 FOR ALIENATION
Famous Actress Is Defendant In $1OO, GOO Action Brought
 by BridgepOrter's Wife

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 Jack, Dean. actor and former resi- dent of Bridgeport, is named by his
 wife, Mrs John wooster Dean. in a suit. for $1OO.Do0 damages which the wife has brought against Mrs. Fannie Ward, the celebrated English actress for the alienation of the directions of Jack Papers were served yester- day on Mrs. Ward at the Hotel Cla- ridge, Broadway and filth street, where she has lived since the closing of the last show she was connected with, a comedy called Mine. President Mrs. Dean, known to theater goers as Ruth Langdon. sued through Her man lL. Roth of No. 14O2 Broadway af- ter she had withdrawn 8 divorce pro- ceedings in which Miss Ward was named as correspondent. The divorce suit was filed early last fall in the supreme court, W7estchester.
 In the alienation suit 1t is charged that Miss Ward began exercising her wffes over Dean in 1910. long before she was divorced from Joseph Lewis. the South African diamond king. At that time Mrs. Dean was playing in The Earl and the GirT' and her hus-' band was Miss, " ards leading man.
 On Miss Wards tours she not only permitted herself 10 be known as the sweetheart of Dean. but thus desiE- mated herself in conversation. says
 The wife further alleges 2hat the couple ave lived together and that Miss Ward has maintained both in apartments in New York city and elsewhere. Not only has Miss Ward paid all, the bills. but she has also advanced sums of money to Dean. 1t is asserted:
 When Lewis got a divorce in 1913 he named as correspondent John IF. Donovan. Mrs Dean says Donovan was her husband, using a false name This action was brought in England At the time Lewis settled $250. 900 on his e1even-year-oId daughter
 Miss Ward first attrNcted attention when she was playing a snaan part in Henry E. sDixey's "Adonis'' com pany Clarence B. Brown, son of a banker. became interested in her. Eventually she sued him for $15o 900 for alleged breach of promise and for depriving her mother of her services When Lewis married she left the stage But she returned
 In 1912 she sued Edgar Cohen of London because of a $450,000 alleged loss in a. taxicab venture. The suit was settled out of court.
 Last winter Miss Ward was much on the Speedway, where she drove A. B. Gwathmey's Tiverton, a horse with record of 2.041-2. with the outbreak of the war she gave the use of her two fine English homes to the government for hospitals
 Dean was born in Bridgeport and lived here until he was about 21 years old. When the old Bridgeport Dra- Tnatic club was giving amateur theat- rical productions at the various thea tres Dean took part and his apparent dramatic ability led him to be a pupil of Emma Cunning Banks at the time that Lauren Rees who at one time had the big part in @Quo yadis,', Os- car Beers, who was a, playwright and actor, and a lumber of others who became famous in stageland were studying with her.
 MT. Deans fourth name is Donovan. Before he went on the stage he was employed for short time at the Jen- nie Hamilton pharmacy when the corner of Main and State streets. Later he worked for short time in the Smith & Egge factory. He is a nephew of the late Edgar c. Dean. who first established the business in Bridgeport of exchanging new pack ing cases for old ones Edgar c. Deans wife and Jack Deans mother were sisters. Deans father was John 1T. Donovan but when his parents died, the Deans adopted him and he took their name. Dean is very well known dn Bridgeport, although since he attained fame on the stage he has not visited here very often
 One of his closest personal friends is John A. Shea. the proprietor of Shea's hotel in Main street. MT Shea said today that he had not seen Dean since his last visit to Bridgeport and that he knew nothing concerning his marital troubles
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