Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-25

with an ecstatic cry of you old
dear! pressed kiss upon his lips.
Mrs. Eddinger looked on with
tie troubled. WHO is that woman?
she Inquired Jelly.
II quite agree with you-it is worse than
silly"
But kiss like that isn't love kiss"
pleaded Mr. Eddinger, and when they
reached homo he illustrated what a love
kiss was like with such success that for
the time tho incident of the afternoon was
forgotten and amity reigned once more
The restored harmony was not for long.
however More discords began to creep in
while MIR. Eddinger was playing in THE
Boomerang" which had phenomenal
three years run at New York theatre.
In this play the young star had to make
love to two young women-very charming
ones. He had to embrace fervently beau.
tiful Ruth Shepley, his stage fancee He
had to cast longing eyes at alluring Martha
Hedman who played the nurse In his doc
tors office.
Mrs. Eddinger saw the play but once,
and when she left the theatre She dis
played symptoms OF nervous irritabiity.
Then followed rumors of angry arguments
in the Eddinger household
How can help it," urged Mr.. Eddnger,
off Winchell Smith wrote lot of fool stuff
for me to do in this play? Those girls
are nothing to me except opposites in a
scene!"
But why do you show such extreme
enjoyment when playing with them?" Is
said to have been Mrs Eddinger's acid
reply.
And so the debate went on as long as
1.-THE Boomerang" did. Mr. Eddnger vainly
doing his best to explain the perfect inno-
cence of stage kisses. stage hugs and stage
goo-goo eyes. In spite OF the success he
had scored in the play he was not sorry
when the long run closed and Miss Shep.
ley and Miss Hedman went into other
companies. Now he hoped that the dove
or peace would smooth its ruffled wings
ana make his home happy again.
But the fates were against him. He was
starred in wedding Bells"-name OF Ill
omen!-and i'll this comedy again he had
10 make love to two women This time it
was charming Jessie Gendinning and win
some MARGARET Lawrence who were the
objects OF his stage devotions
Once more all the force of the personal
ity that has fixed so many things to the
delight or thousands of theatregoers was
called into play to adjust the difficulties
In his home life. 1t succeeded in keepinp
the trouble that was brewing from bub.
bling over until after Wedding Bells" was
on the road. While Mr.. Eddinger was on
the Pacific Coast he was served with the
divorce papers. party alleged to have
been given in the Eddinger apartment dur.
ing his wife's absence was one OF tho
things upon which the proceedings were
based.
Just harmless little affair."" Mr.. Ed.
dinger explained. Such affairs are quite
the thing in the topsy-turvy land in which
we stagefolks live"
Mrs Eddinger's reply was sniff-a
long-distance sniff, conveyed through her
lawyer
Mr. Eddinger was most forgiving "Poor
girl" he said IT'S my absence that has
done this. These long separations are tho
curse OF every actors marriage When I
see her again can straighten everything
out"
viii Mr.. Eddinger BIO able to "straighten
things OUT as he hopes? There Is still
time, for three months must intervene be-
tween the interlocutory and the final de.
cree OF divorce, And everybody who has
seen the smiling, forceful ease with which
wallace Eddinger always manages to ex-
tricate himself from all sorts OF Difficult
ties on the stage will be inclined to think
that his wife may yet be unable to resist
the appeal Of the former Little Lord
Fauntleroy."