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SATURDAY, 3rd OCTOBER, 1936.
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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936.
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Mary Astor
Astor Case WARRANT FOR ARREST OF
KAUFMAN
LOS ANGELES, AUG. 25.
WARRANT for the arrest of Mr. George S. Kaufman, the Broadway playwright, was issued to-day when he failed to appear at the resumption of the sensational Mary Astor case before the Los Angeles Courts.
Mr. Kaufman, who was built up in the Astor diary as a "great lover," was earlier reported to be planning to leave Cali- the comparative seclusion of New fornia by plane to seck
York.
After Miss Astor had admitted
under cross-examination that FREAK 'PLANE
she had had an affair with the she Was playwright before divorced last year. à subpoena was served upon Mr. Kaufman.
Despite this, he failed to attend the Court to-day,
MARY UNDER FIRE
Famous U. S. Flier To
Attempt Atlantic Flight
An aeroplane without any fuselage, with all the accommodation for pilot and baggage contained in one huge wing will be used by the veterin. hier, Mr. Clyde Pangborn, when he While sheriffs armed with the attempts to fly from New York to warrant went in search of Mr.Paris and hack to the United States,
to says Reuter from New York. Kaufman, Miss Astor went
make his the witness stand again to face Mr. Pangborn intends
venture about the middle of August. cross-examination by counsel of The machine, which was designed her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn, by the late Mr. Claire Vance, of Oakland, California, consists of a Thorpe.
in which are found pilot's wing only, When she admitted her affair with quarters, fuel supply, and comport- joined .ໂດ the Mr. Kaufman she alleged that Dments for baggage all
booms. Thorpe condoned it and that she had tail surfaces by sienter metal
1,156 gallons, pointed this out to him before he The petrol capucity is 1,1
and the machine has only one engine entered sat for divorce last year.
with an estimated flying range of space mail or 8,600 miles non-stop. There is
of goods. aboard for 1,000 lbs of mai
Mr. Pangborn's chief purpose is to make the first "payload" neroplane flight across the Atlantic. To this Before a court packed with Holly-end he has fixed rates for mall and wood celebrities Miss Aster was then parcel post at 1.14 dollars per balt questioned regarding her acquaint-ounce inbout is 6d) for the outward once with Mr. Bennett Cerf, a New trip, 1.66 dollars for the return trip York publisher, who was formerly (about 6s. 611, and 2.65 dollars the husband of Miss Sylvia Sidney, about 10s. d) for the round trip
for euch half aunce carried. the film star.
But the first question fired at her by Dr. Thorpe's counsel to-day was: "What part of the affair with Mr. Kaufman did your husband co- dane?"
JOHN BARRYMORE
Counsel also questioned Miss Astor about meetings with Me. Kaufman in New York, and a visit paid to her by Mr. John Barrymore after his tris continental "light" from Miss Elaine Barrie, his protegeo.
Miss Astor admitted that she had dined and danced with Mr. Cerf, and also that an extract from her diary revealed that she had driven in the park with Kaufman, "who said he'd like to kiss me, but didn'!."
When counsel suggested that Mr. John Barrymore was intoxicated when he visited her, Miss Astor be-. came most indignant.
She admitted that drinks were served during the visit, which lasted an hour. Mr. Burrymore was not alone when be visited her, she said.
She admitted that Mr. Barrymore "had poured out his troubles to her." HAVANA HOLIDAY
Asked whether, when she returned from New York, she had told Dr. Thorpe that she had had on affair with Mr. Kaufman, Miss Astor said: "I do not recall such."
She admitted that she and her guests drank liquor occasionally in front of Marilyn (the child whose eitslody is in dispute).
Referring to her holiday in Havanir, sho admitted that Mr. Danny" Silberberg and others had accom- panied her.
gether
"I did not stay with anybody in Havana."
"she said. "We were to as a party." She denied that she had shared a room with any man, either in New York or Havana hotels.
. NEW PEACE MOVE
Meanwhile, the film colony trembles at reports that other leading actors and motion picture executives, two playwrights and one public official are among the 18 named by
Miss Astor in her dlary
The week-end struggles o
of suddenly virtuous
magnates
case
lear
cinema alarmed "screen lovers" to settle the
out of court-because of their i that
further revelations would ruin certain reputations and result in finuncial loss to the film industry--- | seemed fruitless to-day:
Mr. Irving Thalberg, the husband of Naron Shearer. is sponsor of a new "prace move" at the request of the magnates.
Both Mits Astor and Dr. Thorpe insist on battling to complete victory. regardless of what scandal the testl- many might bring.
The case results from Miss Astor's attempt to regain the custody of Marilyn, who was entrusted to Dr. Thorpe when he and the film star were divorced a year ago.
Christendom
Wanting, Says
.
St. Paul's Dean
Sald the Dean of St Paul's, Dr. W. R. Matthews, in his presidential address to the Modern Churchimen's Conference at Oxford, in a plen for a new reformation:
"The Influence of Christianity in the world steadily wanes. We must admit, if we have the courage to face the truth, that, while the Rationalists have nothing to offer, what the Churches offer becomes less and less acceptable to the masses of Western civilisation."
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the return trip he
fly Hopes en-stop either to California or top
where the Texas Dallas, Texas, Centennial Exposition is being held. Mr. Pangborn will take off from
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