GARY GRANT MYSTERY

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1934, Page 5

GARY GRANT MYSTERY

REPORTS OF POISONING. HOLLYWOOD, Octob,er 6. Mr Cary Grant was the central figure in a remarkable chain of events at Hollywood to-day. The police received a mysterious telephone call from the apartment house where he was living, and on arrival found the English-born actor lying across the bed in apparent agony. He was taken to the hospital. Later Dr G. E. Cornell stated: “Mr Grant was found to be suffering from the effects of a poison tablet, which he said was taken ‘under stress of great worry.” Mr Grant’s version of the affair differs materially from that of the doctor and hospital authorities. He asserted that the whole story of poisoning was. a practical joke. He declared that he did not know who called the police, or who told the doctor that he had taken poison. “All I know,” said Mr Grant, “is that police crowded into my room and rushed me off to hospital. I was in a somewhat dazed condition, after a

late party. I believe that my friends, knowing this, played a joke on me.” Mr Grant, and his wife, Miss Virginia Cherrill, formerly leading lady to Mr Charles Chaplin, separated on Saturday after a. quarrel. The owner of the apartment house in which Mr Grant lived states that he put in several telephone calls to his wife during the night. It is not known who called the police this morning when Mr Grant was taken to hospital. The actor was found lying across the bed, and several residents declare that a woman seen in the apartment earlier was Miss Virginia Cherrill. Mr Grant and Miss- Cherrill were married last February, and Mr Grant, a former leading man to Miss Mae West, signed a new five years’ contract at double his former salary last week.