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Show Mae Murray Fails to Gain Custody of Her Son ALBANY, N. Y. (AP) Blond Mae Murray, glamor girt of the ailent screen, failed today In her effort to regain custody of her 13-year-old son, Koran Mdivanl, who choaa to live apart from hit mother in a aimDle rural home. boy awaited disposition of the proceedings pro-ceedings here. In a brief filed with Justice Ber-gan, Ber-gan, the actress' attorney, Vincent A. Cattoggio Jr., asserted thst theatrical the-atrical people should, not be deprived de-prived of their children "merely because they live differently from people engaged In more sedentary occupations." He said motherhood rights are not forfeited by women seeking careers. Daniel H. Prior, counsel for the. Cunnings, declared In his brief that "money love, not mother love," was Miss Murray's motive In seeking custody of the child. "Her motive In now seeking his custody, thst she use him as sn Instrument perhaps a pawn, to fore money from her ex-husband, speaks in a probative voice of her unworthiness and unfitness to become be-come sgain , his custodian and guide," he said. Recently, Rettama Films, a newcomer new-comer In the motion picture Industry, Indus-try, announced the signing of Miss Murray to a one-year contract i State Supreme Court Justice' Frands Bergan, dtlng Miss Murray's Mur-ray's "singular" lack of Interest In the boy, son of Prince David Mdivanl Mdi-vanl whom she divorced In 1933, Redded he should remain In the custody of a family In near-by Averill Park. The jurist dismissed and quashed a wdt of habeas corpus obtained by the thrice-wedded, thrice-divorced actress In her attempt to obtain the boy's custody. Miss Murray broke Into tears when she was informed last October Octo-ber at the conclusion of the proceedings pro-ceedings that her son dedded to remain away from her. Koran ruled against the actress during questioning In Judicial chambers by Justice Bergan, presiding pre-siding at the proceedings brought by Miss Murray against Bruit Cunning and her brothers, John and Cortland, of Averill Park. The boy came to the Cunning home In January, 1936, following a double mastoid operation performed per-formed In New York City by Dr. Daniel Cunning, a brother of the defendants In the action. Miss Murray maintained that a California court haa already awarded her custody. Her adion against the prince In California for support of Koran and the prince's counter-claim for custody of the |