The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-03
HELEN HAYES IN
 $lOO,OOO SUIT
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discouraging commentary on your sex"
 Miss Hayes, taking time off from the stage to settle the matter or Miss Frlnk's $i00000 suit for the alleged theft of MacArthur's wool wool" love, smiled wanly when her husband admitted that he wrote the letter. A veil almost hid here blusheS while MacArthur chuckled and flushed over the tender words nc wrote his first wife in 1920, before he scared to fame and millions as the co-author of Front Page" ana author of other stage hits.
 She dabbed her eyes sympathetic. ally when MacArthur admitted that he had signed one of his letters "i,0O0 times 100000 xxx x K" It sounds like me in 1920," MacArthur said, uncomfortably.
 Miss Hayes rested her head on acArthur's shoulder when Miss Frink testified. Once, Miss Frink declared, MacArthur struck her. "1t wasn't hard enough to knock me down, but ripped and fell between the twin beds. He picked me up ana said, 'aw, honey, ! didn't mean to do that. Now you hit me-" Joy Fred Reeve, Miss Hayes counsel, interjected that this material was not revelant. But Sam oolan, MISS Frinks attorney, explained that ne merely was trying to show the great affection that once existed between the playwright and his first wife an affection Miss Brink alleges that Miss Hayes disrupted.
 Miss Brink told how their love bloomed over Q newspaper city room water cooler and how MacArthur clumsily stepped on her feet and kissed her nose when he first told her he loved her. Golan led her into many recitations intended to show her great toll and sacrifice to maintain their marriage. Miss Frink had the idea they ought to save money, she said. Once they moved into Q $l0-a-week room. However: "Mr. MacArthur was sen- sitive to environment, and, besides, the bed was too short for his feet"
 Once when they travelled to Cal- ifornia, they both slept in the same upper berth to conserve on ex- penses, she explained. Again, Tn 1923, when they both lost their jobs, they lived on hard rolls because their hotel credit was exhausted. MacArthur began to dabble in play wrighting, she related.
 "While he was working on Q play 1t made him very nervous. had to walk the streets while he worked. I'd stop at drugstores and call and ask him if I could come home. Sometimes he'd say yes, and some times he'd tell me no, come back in an hour" MacArthur told her that he might be hard to domesti- cate, because he was a genius, she said. He thought he had tubercu- losis and they went to California. She worked there, while he lounged on the beach getting healthy"
 The proposal that followed the water-cooler scene and preceded the hard rolls, occurred at Coney Island, in New York, she related. The mar riage was performed by MacArthur's father, whom she then met for the first time. Miss Frink, relating the incident, quoted the father, the Rev. William MacArthur. as saying: "She's pretty as Q picture" In an aside, she added, "that was 8 long time ago."
 Before he permitted Miss Frink to leave the stand for the day, however, Golan pressed for the exact words of the proposal. They were:
 Take Q chance and marry me-"
 "And what did you saya"
 T said," Miss Frink replied: grim ming, this is SO suddenI"
 Miss Frink's counsel also intro duced a deposition from . magazine writer who interviewed Miss Hayes in 1882. The writer quoted Miss Hayes as saying:
 T used to strain SO. trying to Dc gayer, brighter, more brilliant than she (Miss Frink) was."