The San Francisco call., 1909-07-25
KEPT THE FACT
OF R[MARRIAGF
ASWFET SECRET
Arthur MacOndray and Former
Wife, Madge Richardson,
We're Wed Dec. q, 1907
Reconciled Couple Living in a
Cozy Flat in Filbert Street
and Are Very Happy

Society in town has new query to
answer: Is it possible for a romance
to be altogether extraordinary and at
the same time commonplace? Such a
paradox may be true and is exempIi-
fed, perhaps. in the case of Arthur
Macondray and his bride, who have
been remarked after more than eight
years separation and are at home now
in a cozy fiat in Filbert street.
Again, there is another unusual cir
eumstance added to the story of love
and adventure in the fact that the
couple has been married, they say,
since December %. 1907; but their
friends are just discovering that the
thread of romance, broken several
years ago, has been spliced with a
second marriage which took place in
the Catholic church Star of the Sea.
in this city. The mystery and recon
ciliation are dismissed by the bride
groom on his second honeymoon with a
mere wave of the hand, while he says:
There is nothing unusual about oul.
marriage. We have been married nine
years"
GOSSIP RIPPLES MERRILY
Nine years, truly, all told, and the
troublesome interval between the first
marriage, which took place in August,
1900, and the second ceremony, in De-
cember. 1907, has been relegated to the
forgotten past by the happy twain.
But gossip ripples merrily on about
the second wedding and society is won
dering why it has not heard earlier of
this reconciliation, which might have
been public, many months ago.
Arthur Macondray comes of a promi-
nent family-one of the most exclusive
of the old southern set-which is not
given to publicity, it is true; but is it
not strange. gossip is saying, that this
wedding has been kept so quiet right
under our very noses, as it were? Now
that the secret is out, there will be no
end of congratulations for the couple
THERE WAS PARENTAL OBJECTION
Macondray is related to the Ather-
tons and several of San Francisco's s
oldest families and his first wedding
was an event that occasioned much
gossip in the local smart set of the
last decade. His bride was Miss
Madge Richardson, pretty girl of the
piquant type, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Richardson. once of Ash
bury heights. The wedding Mas quietly
celebrated like the second, it may be
said, but nine years ago the youth of
the couple and the finances of the
bridegroom were said to occasion the
parental objection at that time. The
honeymoon was passed in the orient,
but it was said that even the cold fact
of low finance began to. loom with
alarming reality on the horizon, and
before they returned from Manila there
was talk of severe straits and lack of
sordid cash.
DIVORCE FOR NONSUPPORT
There was more talk of domestic in
felicity, brought on twas said, by the
same necessity, and less than year
after their marriage the young wife
secured divorce on the very unroman-
tic ground of nonsupport,
Mrs. Macondray returned to the home
of her mother, Mrs. Richardson. bur
later, according to her friends, she was
tempted to gain a name and illusory
fame before the footlights She was in
New York, and reports from that Mecca
of the American thespians were re-
ceived here by her friends. who averred
that she had future if she were will
ing to work and remain. That career
did not appeal to her. apparently as
did the possible reconciliation with her
former husband, and so--the second
wedding and the fiat in Filbert street.
There doubtless will be many informal
parties at the pretty home of the couple.
who will remain in this city to make
their future residence here.
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