Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Suzette M. Tobey (left) stands next to Jane Emerson (right), both holding onto their clutches. Walter Emerson was the dancing partner of Suzette Tobey, and she sued him in 1922 for breach of promise, when they were allegedly engaged. Instead he married Jane N. Scholtz. Related to "Emerson's Wife Lauded," Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb 1935: A3. In February 1935, Jane Emerson sued to divorce her husband, screenwriter and actor Walter Emerson, to marry Barton Sewell, a wealthy yachtsman. The suit resulted in a double divorce for the Emersons and Sewells. Handwritten on negative: Mrs Suzzet Toby Mrs Jane Emerson Text from negative sleeve: Emerson, Jane Rae W. J. Gilbert " Suzzet Toby 4440 - double divorce x Jane Emerson Walter Emerson (screenwriter + actor) x Leah C. Sewell Barton Sewell (rich yachtsman) (one being cleaned??) [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13614 ark:/21198/zz002hnv5g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Divorce--California--Los Angeles Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles Trials (Adultery)--California--Los Angeles Tobey, Suzette (Suzette Marie), 1906- Sewell, Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, 1904-1988
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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