Alfred C. Read had an extra-marital affair with actress Claire Windsor. His wife, Marian Read, sued Windsor for "balm" and ultimately divorced her husband.
Hal Styles dressed in suit and tie holding some documents on his left hand. He is accompanied by three women all wearing hats. Grace Crosgrove, Aline Wood and Leonore Cordial. Ed Wheeler is standing behind Hal Styles. They are standing in the hallway of the Los Angeles Superior court department 14.
Maryann Chaple (left?) and Mrs. Mazie Pryor possibly in a Los Angeles courthouse on August 30, 1935 where Chaple had a divorce proceeding and Pryor was a witness.
Related to the article “Boy Denies Suit Charge, Young Co-respondent Takes Stand for Wife Accused in Divorce Row,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 1935: A8. The article states: “It wasn’t true about me and Mrs. Coleman. …” So testified the year’s youngest co-respondent, 17-year-old Lloyd Bishop … yesterday at trial of the Colemans’ contested divorce. John B. Coleman … asserted his wife, Roberta Esther Coleman … associated with the youth … at other times with Leroy Bishop, 19. Mrs. Coleman denies misconduct with the Bishop boys. …
Possibly related to several articles in the Los Angeles Times regarding Mrs. Edith Andrews attempting to get alimony from her ex-husband, film director Del Andrews, and filing a death threat against her from her ex-husband, dates ranging from 1928-1932.
Millionaire publisher Eugene V. Brewster and husband of actress and "Georgia Peach" beauty contest winner Corliss Palmer testifies that her husband neglected to take her out, nagged her, and would rather read and play solitaire than spend time with his wife.