Milestones, Oct. 18, 1937

Divorced. Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Joan, Barbara, Constance; by Angela Raisch Bennett; in Los Angeles. Married since 1927, they separated in 1934. Mrs. Bennett was awarded $60,000 community property. Said she: "Dick would go temporarily insane, and play his parts with such realism that he climaxed one performance by driving a nail file through my cheek."

Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt, 23, heiress who sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon...

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