Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 20 | Million Gift to Wife Told

MILLION GIFT TO WIFE TOLD NIW YORK. Feb. If (UP) David Wark Griffith, th film di-rctor.chargd di-rctor.chargd today that his. HI., veresd wife had collected "over t000,(XXr from him In 3S years by "threat! and persecution." Tb chare waa la aa answer to aa alimony suit. H demanded $900,000 from hla former wife on tb ground of damage to hla bueineee and reputation. Mrs. Linda Griffith la suing for Uf.00 and nullification of the director' di-rector' divorce obtained In Kentucky Ken-tucky last February. Griffith has sine married Evelyn Baldwin, M rears his Junior. Counsel for the first Mrs. Griffith said, la answer to th charges: "Mrs. Griffith still admires Mr. Griffith for his work In the movies. She gives him all th credit In the world for that and ah wrote a book that shows It The assertions, of course, are grossly exaggerated."