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Show SitndJtf, Mcwn 21, 200 0 A U V H C K A 17 I 0 Hi STORY Page HE COT HISTORY? The Daily Hefaid is looKmg tot interesting stones about local history for this weekly page. MaKe tufits?ion$ of submit material by to Executive Editor Randy Wright, rwright?neraldetra com. Or mail to the Daily Herald. P.O. Bo 717. Ptovo, UT 846030717. No phone calls please. The sun sets on a fallen star D ROBERT mm CARTER week after experiencing the thrill of attending the premier of Trader Horn at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Edwina under- .went one of the most humiliating experiences of her life. She made her deposition answering Suzette Renaldo's charge of alienation of affection. Edwina arrived in the office of Mrs. Renaldo's attorney, Paul Shapiro, and the two women sat side by side while awaiting the proceedings. Neither showed the other any sign of recognition. While answering the questions posed by Shapiro, Edwina never once turned her eyes toward her accuser. Mrs. Renaldo, on the other hand, kept her gaze fixed directly on Edwina during the 15-- minute-lon- g A proceedings. Edwina testified she first met Renaldo just before the troupe left Los Angeles for New York. She said she didn't find out he was married until another girl told her while they were steaming across the Red Sea. Edwina answered most of Shapiro's questions negatively. The actress denied calling Mrs, Renaldo "a cold and mercenary woman," refuted "breaking down the fidelity of Renaldo to his wife," and denied saying Renaldo would never get anywhere in pictures with a wife and a child. Edwina spurned claims that Renaldo lived with her and her family, that she was ever alone with Renaldo in her or anyone else's apartment, and that she had her marriage annulled so she could marry Renaldo. When Shapiro asked Edwina if she knew that Renaldo was true to his wife before he met her, the actress laughed and replied that the question was "too ridiculous." Shapiro followed these questions by asking Edwina if she made love to her leading man in Africa. Edwina replied, "I certainly did not." The actress refused to answer when asked if her landlady had threatened to evict her after finding Renaldo in her room. When the hearing closed, Edwina rapidly left the room, brushing against Mrs. Renaldo, who fell back M l if H V ; X9 6,500 Can't .... THE WONDBJt ttCIVftl OK THE TB CENTURY with over a chair. Suzette claimed Edwina pushed her. In other court action that took place early in 1931, Duncan's attorneys showed that Mrs. Renaldo's elevator stopped somewhere short of the top floor. In court, she claimed Duncan's aged, gray, fedora hat possessed occult powers. She said her husband, who she Relieved to be a Manchu prince, acquired the hat while in China studying to become a Buddhist priest. In Suzette Renaldo's clouded mind, her husband was a member of a dangerous Chinese band, and he used narcotics. The deluded woman accused Edwina "of indulging in mystical love rites practiced by the savages of the jungle." Duncan's attorneys continued to the case, but she lost economically; Edwina was shackled by large legal "mental irreguexpose his larity" by showing she had attempted to buy the testimony of her landlady and the landlady's son. The attorneys also proved Suzette lied about receiving death threats from Renaldo's "Chinese friends." Roughly a year after Mrs. Renaldo filed the original suit, Edwina appeared before Superior Court Judge Carl A. Stutzman early in September 1931. The accused answered negatively 18 EDWINA BOOTH TUiUtncUaa I bnakiaf d near times to essentially the same questions asked earlier by Mrs. Renaldo's attorney. Edwina served as the only witness. Mrs. Renaldo had fled California to avoid her sanity hearing scheduled to be heard in that state. Stutzman found Edwina innocent and absolved her of any blame. She may have won Aim fees. Duncan Renaldo was not so lucky. The court found him guilty of illegally entering the United States and making false statements in order to obtain a passport. He served 18 months in federal prison and was pardoned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt one day before his term in prison expired. After being released, Renaldo started over as a janitor earning $50 a week in a movie studio. He ultimately became early television's Cisco Kid and earned a comfortable living. Early in 1931, Edwina Booth's name rolled o'f f every tongue. Paul Cuilhe, a nationally known floral expert, even named an orchid for her. "The Edwina" appeared at a Pasadena flower show. Cuilhe valued it at $25,000, much more than Edwina received for filming Trader Horn. Edwina appeared in three movie serials during 1931 and 1932: The Vanishing Legion and The Last of the Mohicans with Harry Carey, and Trapped in Tijuana with Duncan Renaldo. Then her short career in movies ended. 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