Show Court Gives Ann Harding Trip Permit LOS ANGELES March 10 sAnn s- s pAnn Ann Harding blond screen star found legal barriers removed today from a trip to Europe with her young daughter Jane Court permission for the child to tobe tobe tobe be absent from the tho country until December 15 was wan was was' granted after a stormy hearing in which her father Harry Bannister actor was charged with demanding money from her actress mother on threats of or publicly publicly pub liely scandalizing her Miss MIss' Harding accused Bannister her ler divorced husband of at only conditionally conditionally conditionally con con- assenting to the trip for forthe forthe the hc purpose of annoying and harassing her She has contracted to 0 appear in an English film Although she has bas never paid one cent of tribute to Bann Bannister ster Miss Harding stated In an affidavit it was her opinion that the annoyance annoyance annoy ance will continue until she accedes accedes' to his demands for the payment of at money Her attorney Roland Rich Richley W Wooley Wool olley ol- ol oli i ley ey- ey told the court th that t Miss Harding Harding Hard- Hard ing ng had not engaged e in a court fight her ast year for her daughters daughter's custod custody until sho she received telegrams and arid letters etters from Mr Bannister demandIng demanding demand- demand ing ng money mony and saying otherwise other he would publicly scandalize her At that time the co couple couple- accused each other of being not a fit or proper person to ca care cam e for the child but jut the actress won virtually sole custody She was required however however however how how- ever to have Bannister's consent to take ake the year 7 7 old girl out of Cali Call fornia He responded to her plans for the I trip this year by making malting his his' consent consent consent con con- sent conditional upon having his daugh daughter er at his Stewartsville N. N J. J farm farm- three weeks before and three weeks after after- the excursion This request was denied by Judge Lewis Howell Smith Bannister's attorney Michael Luddy characterized Miss HardIng's HardIngs Hardings Harding's Hard- Hard Ings Ing's charges of demands for money from her as absolutely false and without foundation whatsoever |