San Pedro News Pilot, Volume 13, Number 7, 13 March 1940 — Told Me to Get Out' Ginger Rogers Wins Divorce [ARTICLE]

Told Me to Get Out' Ginger Rogers Wins Divorce

LOS ANGELES. o?)—Ginger Rogers, glamorous film actress, today was given a divorce from Lew Ayres when she testified the actor “told me to get out and go home to my mother." Questioned during brief testimony by her attorney, Neil S. McCarthy, Miss Rogers testified she and Ayres separated May 14, 1936. “Did you and he have an altercation at that time?" “Yes." “Had you had any difficulties prior to that time for some period?" “Yes, we had.” “And had there been criticism on his part of you and your friends?” “Well,” the actress replied after some hesitation, “he had constantly

criticized me and my friends and my work.” “Had that upset you and affected your health?” “It made me very nervous. I lost a lot of'weight, and finally one day he told me to get out and go home to my mother, and there was nothing else for me to do.” Miss Rogers declared she had lived ever since with her mother, Mrs. Lela E. Rogers, who corroborated her testimony. Ayres made no appearance and Superior Judge Clement L. Shinn granted the decree by default. Miss Rogers sued under her married name of Virginia M. Ayer and nam’d the defendant as Frederick Ayer. They were married here Nov. 14. 1934.