SUED FOR £20,000
SCREEN STAR HELEN HAYES CLAIM DISMISSED Chicago; juiv 3. Carol Frink’s £20,000 alienation of affections’ suit against Helen Hayes, ol screen and stage, was dismissed today.
The dismissal came in the third act of a courtroom drama which often convulsed listeners over the picturesque languages and antics of Charles Mac Arthur, playwright, author and' movie producer, who married Miss Hayes two years after Miss Frink divorced him.
Plaintiff’s counsel. Mr. Sam Golan, moved non-suit to Judge Walter Labuy. explaining that- Miss Fink, a drama and movie critic, was moved by a woman’s natural reaction at reading purported interviews with Miss Hayes and wanted her "day in court.” “At no time,” Mr. Golan said, ‘ was this an extortion suit, and Miss brink never was a gold digger.” Judge Labuy ruled non-suit without a moment’s hesitation,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 11
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