Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Richard Arlen's ex-wife since 1923 Ruth Austin Mattimore has taken the actor to court in order to appeal for more alimony so she can pay for her daughter's tuition at a private school in Pebble Beach, but Arlen's lawyer Jerome J. Mayo denied the alimony needed to be increased from $30 to $60 a week. Photograph appears with the article, "Richard Arlen's Ex-Wife Asks Alimony Increase," Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep 1935: 3. Text from negative sleeve: 2406 - L to R - Mrs. Ruth -> former wife of Richard Arlen, actor (nee Richard Van Mattimore) Austin Mattimore Roe Marie Mattimore - 14 years 9-24-35 alimony suit [stamped:] Oct 18 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Ruth Austin Mattimore, whose former husband is Richard Arlen, screen actor, is shown at the left as she appeared in court yesterday with her daughter, Rose Marie, 14 years of age. Mrs. Mattimore is asking an increase in her alimony, as her daughter wishes to attend a fashionable girls' school. Handwritten on negative: L to R - Mrs Ruth Austin Mattimore Roe Marie Mattimore - 9-24-35
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_8845 ark:/21198/zz002dgsvc
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Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles Divorced women Mothers--California--Los Angeles Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles Mattimore, Roe Marie (Rose Marie Mattimore), b. 1921 or 22 Mattimore, Ruth Austin
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