The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-09

been revived by the Libby Holman
Smith Reynolds "Ab" Walker drama
in North Carolina.
Claire Windsors famous beauty
hair like golden sunshine, eyes of
deepest blue and features like those
OF Dresden china doll-had been
pretty we'll forgotten until last March
when Mrs. Read filed her 100000
suit. Then those whose memory goes
back to the days of the silent films
remembered Miss Windsor for her
successful roles in such bygone pic
lures as Fools First" Brothers I'm
der the Skin," Captain Lash and
"Midstream.'
They remembered, too. that she
had been the wife Of Bert Lytell. that
she and Lytell had eloped to Mexico
in 1925 and that about a couple of
years later this union had come to
! the parting of the ways, as SO many
movie marriages do.
Then Claire had faded out of the
picture into the forgotten limbo OF
eX-Stars.
| Suddenly Claire Windsor's name
came back into the news. She was
playing in AL Jolson's wonder Bar"
at San Francisco when officers served
on her the papers in Mrs. Reads
100000 suit which charged that the
famous blonde beauty stole the affec-
tons of Mr.. Read. prominent stock
broker and former University of Cali
fOrnia athlete.
! Mrs. Read charged that her hus-
band was constantly in the COM
pany" of Miss Windsor when he was
in Los Angeles. supposedly on bust
ness" She declared the actress had
pursued "a course of conduct calcu-
lated to win his love- Almost stimuli
| taneously, she filed the divorce suit
naming Miss Windsor as correspond
ent
! why, the very ideal" exclaimed
Glars. II never lured any man away
from his wife and never expect to.
OF course. know Mr.. Read: I was
introduced to him by Louis Epstein,
/ AL Jolson'S manager. but don't know
why all this fuss should be made over
my knowing him. Honestly, I don't
know what it is all about; it has me
flabbergasted or floundered. or some
thing like that
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Very adroitly, Mrs. Read obtained
letters that Claire had written to her
husband and pictures showing them
] in friendly poses. She submitted the
pictures as proof of her contentious.
| And so, in July, when Claire Wind
sor was called upon to make de-
position under oath, 1t is said she
admitted she had loved" Mr.. Read,
but denied alternating his affections.
Roy Hudson, attorney for Mrs.
Read, said that Claire admitted writ
ing the letters and quoted her as hay
ing said in the deposition:
Yes, wrote those letters. I was
very fond of Mr.. Read then. In fact,
you might say I loved him. But
had no idea l was coming between
him and his wife. I had no desire to
break up anybody's home. I thought
Mr.. Read and his wife had separated,
and he led me to believe that"
Whereupon Mrs. Read commented:
Miss Windsor has admitted just eX-
actly what I have said in my suit"
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Midway between the filing of the
suit and Claire's deposition came an
exciting episode.
In May, Mrs. Read had her hus-
band arrested on charge that he
had kidnapped her at the point Of
gun. She told Oakland police that
he had abducted her from the home
of friends and. with several accom-
plices, driven her to lonely spot in
forest 30 miles away. She said she
obtained the car keys and escaped
when her husband fell asleep beside
the road.
One report had it that reconcilia-
ton was the purpose of the alleged
kidnapping. Another report had it
that Read was trying to effect the
return of letters written to him by
Miss Windsor which. it was said, he
had previously turned over to his
wife in an attempted reconciliation
and upon her promise that she would
drop her suit.
Mrs. Read declared she had no in