Suzette Tobey and Jane Emerson at divorce trial, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Suzette Tobey and Jane Emerson at divorce trial, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

[circa February 26, 1935]

Date

1935-02-26

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Tobey, Suzette (Suzette Marie), 1906-
Sewell, Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, 1904-1988

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Adultery)--California--Los Angeles