The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-17
ROMANTIC WEDDING
Data Concerning the Marriage
Of Fay Telnpleton's Mother.
LOVING HEARTS FINALLY LINKED
Arthur Levensons Former Marriage, Divorce,
Etc.-Alice Fane, Mother of The Famous
Fay st 10 Years of Age.

Especial 70 THE 4ERALD--Ex1uiner Dispatch
CHICAGO. Aug. 10.-In regard 10 the mar
rage Of Arthur Levensoa o''Alice Vane''
1t Is said that Mrs. Levenson and Fay
Iempleton will return to New York to-
morrow and sail for Paris Saturday. Fay
will remain there for several mouths, while
Mrs. Levenson returns to America in q
forth ght and will be joined by her husband
in Boston about the middle of September.
MIR. Levenson has one more week of his
engagement with the ali Bahia company,
after which ne will hasten to Boston 10
join his bride
The romance OF the wedding lies in the
fact that Mr.. Levenson secured divorce
from his former wife, Kate Levenson,
Aug. 2. in Judge Tuley's court. He mar
ried her in Kansas City in 1876 and they
separated about Eve years ago. In his pc
tition the .'Caliph of Bagdad" alleged that
Mrs. Levenson had a temper like buzz
saw and an appetite for liquor equal to a
Kentucky colonel. Scarcely he'd the
honeymoon waned when TIE honny Kate,
according to tee evidence ia Judge Tuley's
court, picked up shoe and
STRUCK ''ALF'' UNDER TIE EYE,
inilicting G mark which he bears to this
day. She did this because after she had
spent his weekly stipend she could get no
more from him. Levenson' testified that
his wife was drunkard and yagebond,
and still worse, kleptomaniac; that in
fact, she had been indicted for theft. The
final decree was rendered this week. Only
once since be has been playing in Chicago
during the present engagement has HIS wife
appeared TO bother him. A few months
aha prfrr in, 10 af4 4 ~,
Manager Henderson with pitiful tale to
the effect that her baby was dead in Kan
sas City and she wanted Alf's salary with
which to bury il. Manager Henderson
looked up her record, and discovered that
she had DeEn
WORKING THE DEAD BABY RACKET
in nearly every city in the country. AS
soon as Judge Tuley entered the final de-
cree Mr.. Levenson notified Mrs. Van
Ness. and the result is the marriage which
was celebrated yesterday.
Arthur Levenson, or sAlf Whelan,n is
about So years old. His bride must be a
few years his senior, although their ages
In the register strike g balances at 80. He
claims TO be Frenchman, but talks like
native Of Vermont and looks like Mis-
souri, circuit rider.
''Mrs. Levenson, formerly Van Ness,
formerly Templeton, is well known &C
stage name OF Alice Vane. She mas not
appeared in public. however, for nearly
Two years. Her last appearance in Chi
cago was in 'Zigzag' several years ago.
Mrs. Levenson said last night that she
would never appear on the stage again.
She Is native OF Charleston, 5. O., ana
went on the stage at an early age. She
married John Tenpleton ct Il, and accord
ing 10 Mr.. LeVenson became the
rrorTrp On r-ur r...orr nv
at Is. She vas afterwards divorced from
Templeton snd married her second hus-
band who is dead. The "Caliph of Bag
dad' is the happy No. g. Divested of
scimiter and turDan, the csliph was sur
rounded by q lot OF reporters az the stage
entrance of the Chicago opera house last
night after the Forty Thieves had been
run to earth. He told them all about his
wooing and winning. He kept shaking
talking, be felt so good and true and beau
tiful- 81 am married. he said in stage
aside. ito one Of the most lovely and
charming women 10 the world. 1t is the
realization of hopes which budded and
bloomed three and q half years ago. l
parted with my former wife five years ago.
A year and half after that met Mrs. Van
Ness, or Alice Vane,' as she is known all
over the country. We played engage
ments together IN several companies, and
our
FRIENDSHIP RrPENED INTO PERFECT LOVE.
We have been patiently waiting until
could secure a divorce, which I did last
week.
sWhere was Fay Tenpleton bornl" he
was asked.
an Little Rock. Ark. Her mother, now
my wife. was just Is years old when Fay
was born.n
rHow old is Fayln
.sJust q years old,n replied the caliph,
without dropping dead In his tracks. stYou
see that makes my wife 80 years old Fay
is going 20 remain in Paris for several
months. she has an elegant mansion there
and lovely furniture. She was engaged to
play 10 "a Trip TO Chinatown but she
has beea released and will pass the winter
in Paris''
After joining his bride In Boston, Mr..
Levneson viii begin an engagement with
Joseph Sanger, in the new opera comedy,
New Wing"