“A CAREER WIDOW”

Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 11

“A CAREER WIDOW”

GINGER ROGERS AND LEW AYRES SEPARATE.

Twenty-four-year-old Ginger Rogers partner of Fred Astaire in many recent singing and dancing films, is to separate from her husband, Lew Ayres, the film actor.

This announcement was made in a joint statement issued by the couple. They are separating amicably and a divorce is not contemplated, the statement adds. Ginger Rogers is to leave her husband immediately and will live with her mother.

Lew Aires explains that Ginger Rogers is a “career widow.” “I have taken a job as director,” he said, “and I have just finished directing my first picture on which I worked 16 hours a day. This left me no time for the social life and entertainment in which my wife delighted. One of these days I hope

to become re-acquainted with Ginger.” Ginger Rodgers and Lew Ayres were married in November, 1934. 'Both had been married before—Miss Rogers to Jack Pepper, the vaudeville actor, and Lew Ayres to Lola Lane, another wellknown film star.

Darryl F. Zanuck has assigned William Benedict to a featured role in “Ramona” the all-colour picture being produced by Fox Films, with Loretta Young and Don Ameche in the leading roles. Henry King is directing. Not since the days of the late Lon Chaney has an actor had to suffer agonies of physical distortion in his make-up for a role. Just what Chaney must have suffered is now being realized by Jean Hersholt whose make-up for his role in “Sins Of Man,” the Darryl F. Zanuck 20th Century production, is one of the crowning achievements of the year in that art.