ACTION FOR DIVORCE
JOHN BARRYMORE FILES RESPONSE. WIFE’S ALLEGATIONS. DENIED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Los Angeles, June 8. John Barrymore’s business manager, Henry Hotchner, to-day filed a response to Dolores Costello’s divorce suit. He made a general denial of the charges of cruelty and habitual intemperance, and said Barrymore’s wife was a strong, wilful woman. Answering charges of intoxication on board a yacht, he declared that the wife “held Barrymore a virtual prisoner on the yacht for some two months and a-half with women guards. He was unable to work, and to escape the deadening influence of her presence on his art, he went to New York and later to England.” . Barrymore is quoted unofficially today as saying that he had offered his wife a settlement of 75,000 dollars.
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Southland Times, Issue 25308, 11 June 1935, Page 7
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129ACTION FOR DIVORCE Southland Times, Issue 25308, 11 June 1935, Page 7
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