| Show Brokers Broker's Wife Denies Misconduct Charge Attorney for Screen Star Questions Mrs Read About Illicit Love Affair Rumor Dr my Freu Prud LOS ANGELES Sept 7 Denial i Denial of any form of misconduct misconduct miscon miscon- duct with other men was made on the stand today by y Mrs Marian Young Read Bead ead of Oakland In trial of her damage suit charging Claire Windsor of the stage and screen with stealing the l love e o. o of her now divorced hus bus band Alfred Read Re-ad Jr The denial was made under cross cross- of lawyer for or the actress who asked Mrs Read numerous questions regarding her conver conversation and conduct with men menat ment at t a t party The party was given In her honor honory by y Read in hi a San Francisco hotel in 1929 Is it not true that you ou met Har Har- Id In a separate room in that hotel otel alone Pierce asked No Nol I cried Mrs Read Bead sitting back stiffly upright Is it not true that you ou asked Har Han old Id Belasco to make love to you and I that lat he refused saying he was a friend of your husband and would not ot double cross him No Mrs Read replied Belasco she testified had been em employed by her husband In his former Oakland brokerage firm She insisted she had loved her hus hus- band and continually and always had been faithful to him HOLLYWOOD Sept Sepi 7 A 7 A story of ofa ofa a husbands husband's love that withered and died died before the of a movie queen was was was' laid before a superior ourt court jury today trying the of affections suit of Mrs Martin Y Read against Claire Wind Wind- car or The young youn Oakland society matron malron described a trip to Agua in carch of evidence to support her sus sus- Scions that Mi Miss s Windsor had come between herself hersel and her former hus bus band band and Alfred C. C Read Jr debonair young oung broker brober The actress Read his sister sister and a second man had gone to he the border resort for a week end party Miss Windsor insists she thought and his wife were then estranged an anc and contemplating ting a divorce I I took a plane to San Diego me met some detectives and crossed the border border bor bore der Mrs Read now divorced toll told the middle aged jury The manager manage wouldn't let us enter the bungalow fo foa for fora a while When we finally walked ii Ic In we found Miss Windsor and MisRead Mis Miss Rea Read in one bedroom and Read in an other There were two mens men's hats three glasses and a bottle of whisky whisky- in the thi women's room Read made no pretense of concealIng concealIng conceal Ing Miss Windsors Windsor's affection toward towan him Mrs Read said She told of hi his return to i-a Oakland from the cast when his marital extramarital romance first bios He took me rae in his arms and md said God youre you're a little lUtle shrimp compared with the woman I am running around with she testified Her voice fal faltered I uI thought she stammered h in he was fooling As Mrs Read related her story o 01 damaged love Miss Windsor sa sal sat quietly her face betraying no emo emo- tion Lion Once her calm was broken when the witness said Alfred said Miss Miss' Windsor told him bin he would never need to work again l ii 11 he would Just lust go to South America with her The actress burIed burled her face tace In her hei hands bands and laughed Mrs Read said her former husband First minimized accounts of ot his romance ro ro- nance mance with Miss Windsor Once he showed her the newspaper clipping olt oli ol 01 a i t Broadway columnist in which the Continued on rage Page Two 1 0 WIFE TELLS OF RESORT PARTY II I I Continued from Pate Face One Ont I romance was whispered He informed I l her it was a joke she saMI saidI said saM I I didn't know he heas was as continuing I his correspondence with Miss Mss Winder Wind Wind- WindI 1 sot sor er Mrs Read testified Some time I later ater however he told me she seemed to o take It H seriously that seriously that stuff that was vas in the column column but but he said hed he'd try ry to drop her as gradually as p pOSt pos sible ible It was this correspondence Read and the he actress exchanged before their romance ro- ro mance nance was blighted that forms the basis of Mrs Reads Read's suit A number of the letters were iden by Miss Windsor preceding her accuser on the witness stand In chronological order the he missives Indicated a gradual cooing coolIng coolIng cool cool- Ing ng of Reads Read's love evidenced by lapses of letter writing when miles separated them hem You haven't phoned yet ct as you ou said you ou would in your letter but bul others have the actress taunted bunted in one letter So I have had some long distance calls from other cities from cities from perhaps more anxious or interested admirers ad ad- who who still anticipate without ever having realized well realized well we live and learn learn learn-I I am still hoping to see you dear And what an attorney asked did you mean by that Just sarcasm she murmured My mother nother wrote me that r. r Read was having laving a pretty good time with women acquaintances in Hollywood I didn't mind she added languidly because my own attitude toward him had lad changed som somewhat w |
