New Light On Mayfair Life
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 12. : The dismissal of Mrs Ann Mitchell’s summons for (a separation order, on the grounds of cruelty, and desertion, throws light on a certain type of > Mayfair life. One of her witnesses ' was Peter Jenkins, who was sentenced for a recent West End jewellery robbery. / . , '.J Her husband, Paul, admitted to the “Dajily Mail” that he had married /:■< her for her money. He thought he was infatuate dwith the film actress, . Miss Mary Carlisle, to whom he proposed by trans-Atlantic telephone the night before he married Ann. Ann inherited £15.000, payable on her jedding day, of which she gave him £ISOO. ~ ' V He went abi’oad, and did not see her for four months. He is now living, penniless, with his mother, after dissipating £30,000, which he made on the Stock Exchange. He is under probation in connection with a sharepushing sentence. Ann, who is aged 22, said the high life of the West End, after a convent education, turned her head. She ; agreed to merry Paul, in order to raise money. She took off her wedding ring immediately after leaving the registry office. • Ann’s father said that he saw Paul only once and told him what he thought of him. • :
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1938, Page 5
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