Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-21 | Page 7 | Worth-Brent Annulment Suit to be Resumed L. A. Monday

Worth-Brent Annulment Suit To Be Resumed at L. A. Monday LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (AP) A reopened hearing of Film Actor George Brent's suit to annul his Mexican marriage of last May to Constance Worth, 26, Australian actress, will be resumed Monday on the question of whether she went through the ceremony in good faith. In an unexpected maneuver to prove that ahe did act In good faith, her lawyers late yesterday won a motion to amend their anawer to Brent's complaint which contends hs and Miss Worth did not fulfil requirements of Mexican marital law. The motion came after testimony waa completed and final arguments hsd started. Twice before the motion revived her fight against annulment of the marriage, Miss Worth collapsed emotionally once while ahe was testifying. In that Instance, ahe left the stand and hurried into the arms of her mother, Mrs. Mary Haworth, sobbing. "I can't stand this any longer!" Previoualy, while Brent's lawyer, Ronald Button, was on the stand, she left the courtroom for 10 minutes to brace up. Miss Worth testified that soon after their marriage, Brsnt csme to her after two days' absencs and aaid he waa not happy. "I asked him if he wanted a divorce," di-vorce," ahe related. "He ssid, T don't need one we aren't legally married.' But a few weeks before (she began to weep) he told me a Mexican marriage would be legal!" She ran out of the courtroom to her mother. Button testified Brent telephoned him of the marriage, declaring "You know how long I have been fighting It off, but I did it because of the pleas of Joy" (Miss Worth). Button said he told Brent not to worry, that a Mexican marriage was worthless.