San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
Mrs. Charles c. Frey, the Injured Wifi,
Who Makes Vida Pay Her for
Vamping Mr.. Frey.

Nature and her own efforts have made her
more attractive than the wife.
Mrs. Frey no doubt will agree with
part of this theory, to the extent that Mr.
Frey ought to also pay heavily. But there
is a catch in it. Mr.. Frey does not have
to pay and has watched the financial battle
as not particularly innocent bystander
He belongs to the so-called 'aristocracy
of the poor who are exempt from tax
alton or damages. A verdict against him
would not be worth the expense of get
ting. Mrs. Bennett, who the jury thinks
vamped him, happens to nave thriftily ac
quired considerable wealth as indicated
by snooty red, high-powered roadster
and an estate on Long Island and jewels,
furs and other valuables.
Wilda's country estate has recently
been sold and Mrs. Frey's lawyer
expressed suspicion that the actress might
be concealing her assets-fnancial, not
physical. Miss Bennett, of course, had
heard that it is always the woman who
pays, and pays, and pays, but she never
heard of a woman paying cash and such
a lot of it. From her own remarks and
the lawyers fears, it seems that she may
prove slow pay, pay, pay.
1t is a lot of money, 1900, for
woman to pay for just one mere man, even
if he is handsome and has romantic dash
of gray in his dark hair. She surely ought
g.,
Bennett has lots of wealthy admirers with
whom she could trot around and not only
would it not cost her anything but might
be highly profitable.
Instead she allowed herself to become
interested in Charley Frey, described as
a turf man, racetrack man and gambler
Like all his class he had occasional flashes
Of prosperity, with long, lean gaps be-
tween. She knew that there was no
wealth to be acquired from such source
so from her side, at least, it was a nom
mercenary romance.
What was it about Frey, racetrack
hanger-on, that fascinated Vida?
Perhaps because she had all the money
and he had none was the very reason
the jury concluded that he could not have
done the pursuing. This Long Island jury
lives pretty close to Broadway and perhaps
they were unable to imagine how any man
could successfully pursue a Broadway
darling unless he had money. Frey had
no money to lavish on her. If Frey was
not the pursuer, then she must have been,
they probably reasoned
IL don't see how twelve men could be
so good and truly stupid as to think had
to vamp any man." is Miss Benefits opin-
ion of that idea.
The actress scouts all theories that the
jury decided on any evidence that was
produced in court except the difference in
appearance of the two women. Some who
watched the trial think this may be true.
The twelve men saw one woman armed
with all the well-known weapons of her
sex and not concealed weapons either,
while the other woman seemed to be al
most without any at all. 1t may have
seemed unfair, like strong man fight
ing with a cripple. That verdict perhaps
was in effect, to tell her to tackle some
body of her own size, so to speak.
Mrs. Frey's counsel, Elvin N. Edwards,
painted a beautiful picture of how Frey,
then a perfect Southern gentleman of
Louisville, Kentucky, had wooed her since
school DAYS under soft Southern skies.
Everything had been lovely until this ire
sstible vap1p had come along.
When Mrs. Frey got on the witness