“Two Snappy Rounds”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 18

“Two Snappy Rounds”

Film Star In Real Garden Fight

Husband’s Ex-Wife Has Argument To Settle

«ISS PRISCILLA DEAN, I the film actress, has \ j emerged victorious from j j an exchange of blows I with Mrs. Arnold, wife lof Lieutenant Leslie Arnold. The fist fight took place in the garage of Miss Dean’s home at Hollywood, which Mrs. Arnold visited apparently in the belief that her busband was hiding in the petrol tank. True it is that Mrs. Arnold, who was , , , . , i accompanied by a detective, retired irom the garage and took flight by airplane to her mothers home in New Groton, Connecticut. Her husband, famous as one of the American airmen who flew round the world in 1924, is in a quandary. In October 1928, he married Miss Dean on the understanding that he was divorced from his first wife, the former Miss Mildred Avery, but the courts have declared his divorce invalid, and instructed him to pay the

the first Mrs. Arnold £ls a month. This he has consistently refused to do, saying that he will not pay her money which may be used to prevent him from obtaining the divorce that he believes is his legal right. “Two Snappy Rounds” ... While his wife T as search J?S for hi “ 111l 11 th ,® film Btar .. s . garaKe - rieutenant Arnold was visiting New London, C “ , c ‘ ,cu , ' aml Peking testimony YU 'aTT. h ’ m t 0 ° b ‘ tain a real divorce in Arizona, The sto of the bEUtle al witb #h film star ls denied bv the ,( rst >IrH Arnoldi but her Californian lawyer has confirmed a report of “two snappy rounds.” Later Miss Dean sovght the aid of the local sheriff, but be fore his arrival her antagonist had retired from the field. “A proper financial settlement,” says Mrs. Arnold from New Groton, "is all I ask for. Then Leslie and Priscilla can be happy together.”