‘When are you going to start the torture?’ asks Frances in jail
Hollywood, California (UP) –
Frances Farmer, tempestuous screen actress, awoke after a quiet night in jail, her first of a 180-day sentence, drank a cup of jail coffee which she eyed with disdain and asked:
Well, where are the instruments? When are you going to start the torture? I thought you would brand me with a hot iron.
Matron Vada Sullivan said the actress slept as though she were completely exhausted after going to bed at 11 p.m.
Mrs. Sullivan said Miss Farmer would not be put to work in the jail because she is in a high-strung condition and requires rest.
It was disclosed today that Dr. Thomas H. Leonard, psychiatrist, had visited Miss Farmer late yesterday and had questioned her. Friends and relatives were attempting to work out a rehabilitation program for Miss Farmer, who was led in a straitjacket to a solitary confinement cell to begin her sentence for violation of probation on a drunken driving charge.