Young Actress

and a Doctor Exonerated in Case, Wife Loses Petition After a hearing lasting three days Mr, Justice Hodson in the Divorce Court delivered a judgment that was heard with relief by a young actress and a doctor, states the "News of the World."

It completely exonerated them from charges made by the doctor's wife, whose petition for divorce was dismissed The actress is Miss Eleanor Smith-Thomas, 27, known on the stage as Eleanor Favre, of Five Wells, Brentwood. She intervened fu the suit which was brought by Mrs, Emily Margaret Beatson, of Tree Tops, Canford Cliffs, Dorset, Mrs. Beatson alleged that her husband, Dr. Basil Fraser Beatson, 48 medical officer of health to the Brent-wood Urban Council, had committed adultery with Miss Smith-Thomas.

Expressing her feelings over the decision, Miss Smith-Thomas, who has been playing Maid Marian in the pantomime "Babes in the Wood" at Liverpool, said it meant for her "release from a year of hell"

I have not slept for nights lately, she remarked, and I have hardly eaten, None of my audiences guessed what a terrible strain it was for me, playing in pantomime night after night with this action hanging over

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