LOS ANGELES TIMES

Aug. 29, 1929

MATE WANTS REMOVED TIES WIFE TRIPPED ON

Marriage was a stumbling block to the artistic career of Jessie Beryl LeSueur but Hollywood parties were not. Her husband, Hal Hays LeSueur, brother of Joan Crawford, asserted in his divorce complaint on file yesterday.

“She insisted on going to parties at all times," the plaintiff declared, "and when I wouldn't take her, she went alone. She told me a career was the biggest thing in life and marriage was only a stumbling block."

According to LeSueur's complaint, which was prepared by Attorney Milton Golden, the defendant insisted on having her own apartment and her own friends and announced she would see the plaintiff only by appointment.

When LeSueur refused to put his home on a companionate basis, she left him and wouldn't come back, he said. The couple was married in 1925 and separated May 15, last.

[Thanks to Norman for this article.]