Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-03-22 | Page 14 | Joan Clinches Divorce Decree, Franchot Pouted, She Declares

Procedure Parting Film Pair Im Unusual to ) . 'v V,. .. i rWat over oWc dapotrlion . . . Jo." Crawford, right, with har attornay Elli. I. Hir.ehfi.ld and OftN TrWd. notary public Th. d.p-ition wil b. ra.d in court wh.l. .ha I, an rout, to South . America. f : Joan Clinches Divorce Decree, Franchot Pouted, She Declares HOLLYWOOD. March 82 (UP) Joan Crawford's divorce from Franchot Ton. waa almost as neatly 'canned" today at the film of her latest motion picture. In an unu.ual procedure, her worn testimony that the actor pouted because he was too tired to make th. rounda of th. Hollywood (ay ipoU after long day. befor. th. movie camera! will b. read in court next Tuesday whil. ah. li on th high sea en rout, to South America. w "One Urns ha told me: 1 didn't think it would turn out the way It did. I thought we could have aoms social Ufa.' Ha said he thought we should have some measure of social life." Miss Crawford, fetching In ah expensive ex-pensive mink coat and brown sports ensemble, -walked Into the agent's office and looked pensively for a moment at twe pictures on the waU of herself and Tone before aha started testifying. A onetime chorus girl wha climbed ts the top of the cinema payroll, aha had married Her deposition for the almost automatic au-tomatic divorce was given yesterday at the office of her agent She waa questioned by her lawyer, Ellia 1 Hirschfeld. who will read the testimony to the Judge In her stead next week. Tone has agreed to give her the decree by default. 1 must appear at the atudlo at sv m. when a picture la In production." pro-duction." the deposition said. "Often when I came home and waa ee tired I asked him to cancel social engagements, en-gagements, he would sulk and pout (mce ha wouldn't speak to me for three er four days. ' He'd Sulk waa permitted Vy Superior Judge Robert H. Scott becauss Miss Crawford Craw-ford la echeduled to leave tomorrow for New York, where aha will board the liner Brasil on Sunday for a personal appearance tour of South America. Tone is presently sterling ster-ling In a Broadway play In Nsw York, and aha may stop by to see the suave young actor, nstr to an , abraslvea fortune, October 11, 1M. In Fort Lee. N. J. She previously had been married to Douglas Fair- ' banks Jr. The unusual absentee procedure him. "We are atin friends, you know," hs said. Miss Crawford's application for a passport said she waa born M years ago In San Antonio. Texas. -I would remind him of the agreement agree-ment wa made when wa were married. mar-ried. In which he promised to let ma continue with my career and not let marriage Interfere. Then - S