LIFE IN MAYFAIR

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20497, 13 May 1938, Page 9

LIFE IN MAYFAIR

SORDID REVELATIONS

MRB MITCHELL’S DIVORCE SUIT ROBBERS-AND SHAREPUSHERS united Pres* Assn.—Elec Tel. :opyrlght LONDON, May 11 The dismissal of Mrs Anne Mitchell's summons for a separation order on the grounds of cruelty and desertion throws much light on a certain type of Mayfair life. One of her witnesses, Peter Jenkins, was sentenced for a West-end jewellery robbery. Her husband, Paul Mitchell, admitted to the Daily Mail that he had married for money, though he was infatuated with the film actress, Miss Mary Carlisle, to whom he proposed on the trans-Atlantic telephone the night before he married plaintiff. Mrs Mitchell inherited £15,000, payable on her wedding day, of which she gave him £ISOO. He went abroad and did not see her for a long period. He was now living penniless with his mother after dissipating £30,000 made on the stock exchange. He is under probation in connection with a sharepushing sentence. Mrs Mitchell, who is aged 22, said that high-life in West-end after a convent education had turned her head. She and Paul agreed to marry in order to raise money. She took off her wedding ring immediately after leaving the registry* office. Mrs Mitchell's father said he saw Paul only once, and he then told him what he'thought of him.