Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-10
Kresges Latest
Couple to Halt
Divorce Proceedings

Divorce Proceedings
J New York, March 9-(AP)-To kiss
| and make up with benefit of Judge
and newspaper is becoming popu-
lar denouement of many of the Bit
terly fought divorce suits which have
been holding public attention lately.
Couples who have carried their
matrimonial overtime breakfast table
| chickering's into courts and who have
| hurled the lie and charges of infidel-
ity at each other in staring headlines
from coast to coast, are now enjoying
that Indian summer Of love-"the
second honeymoon"
The latest couple which may climb
toward reconciliation from the depths
! of domestic infelicity are Sebastian
S. Kresge, ten cent store owner, and
Mrs. Doris Mercer Kresge, whose
matrimonial difficulties, as they in
volve the question of stocks and
bonds, are now before the supreme
court of New York. The trial was
(, suddenly adjourned yesterday, the
| couple conferred with the justice,
and Mrs. Kresge's counsel said. they
later went up town in search of the
pastor of their church.
AoiiAiiheolS III bllC OelShS odliu WClC
the justice, who is as interested in
affecting reconciliations as in decid-
ing points at law, and Mrs. Kresge's
attorneys, who aided her in bringing
! the action. but is now hoping that all
| will end happily.
In Paris, with their heads together,
presumably over the newer psycholo-
gical theories of Jung and Freud, are
James Stillman and Fiji" Stillman,
trying to find themselves" again for
1.-THE sage of their children" Five
years ago they were launched upon
| campaign of charges and counter
charges which long held newspaper
prominence.
Last week the suit of Mrs Stillman
for divorce which followed her hus-
bands unsuccessful attempt, was
withdrawn, ending the litigation.
On the pleasant shores of Ber-
muda, Lord and Lady Craven are
proIonging a second honeymoon"
after a tempestuous matrimonial
course that touched the shores of
three continents, spent itself in two
divorce suits in England and had a
final back-fire that recently sent
and the Labor Department of the
question of what constitutes moral
turpitude. Countess Cathcart. the
cause of it all, has won the right to
enter this country.
While supreme court jury delib-
Grated whether to grant her a divorce
recently, Mrs. w. M. HEWITT Manton,
| met her actor husband in conference
with Justice WaSservogel and took
the matter out of the jury's hands.
Marjorie Rambeau, who was nam
ed by Mrs. Banton as correspondent,
is overwhelmed with happiness that
she has been cleared, and wishes the
couple blessed happiness in the fu-
ture.
A variation Of the theme Is being
played in the Tinneys-Frank of
musical comedy fame, and Mrs.
Edna Davenport Tinney of vaude-
vile. The domestic trials of the Tin
neys which reached the newspapers
when Frank was arrested on the
charge of beating Imogene Wilson,
then Of the Follies, finally ended in a
divorce for Mrs. Tinney. But it came
after the Tinneys had eaten the tur-
key of reconciliation on Thanksgiv-
ing and had announced that they
would probably appear on the stage
again together, and were the best OF
friends.
But the second honeymoon" idea
doesn't always work out. Robert B.
Duke, Jr., son of former vice preSi-
dent of the American Tobacco Com
pany, and Mrs. Ellie Human Duke,
paused during their ser for separa-
ton last week to confer with Justice
Proskauer. Then when everything
began to look rosy negotiations were
broken off and the separation was
granted yesterday.
A rumor of reconciliation of Mil.
ton J. Budlong, whose shirts f1uttered
in the breezes of Park avenue last
year, and his wife, Mrs. Jessie Marga-
ret Budlong, whose matrimonial woes
were written upon them, has never
been confirmed. Mrs. Budlong went to
the family home in Newport, R. l.,
with the announced intention of estab-
fishing herself with her husband I'M
der his roof, but he, it was reported,
had already gone south.
Other cases are shrouded in mys-
terry. Ellsworth Bassett. clamdigger,
of Providence, r. l., who became bust
ness manager for Nina Wilcox Put
nam, writer, made an attempt at rec
onciliation with his wife when she
sued the authoress for alienation of
Bassetts affections. 1t was emphati-
cally denied that the reconciliation
took place, but on the other hand the
suit never did. either.
One case when a proposed second
honeymoon" came to naughr. was told
in court yesterday. Mrs. Eleanor V.
Brewster testified that her husband,
Eugene V. Brewster, magazine pub
Usher. suggested that they have
second honeymoon" Then, she
charged, Miss Corliss Palmer. movie
actress, who had already stepped into
her home. stepped into the discussion
and ended it with ridicule. Mrs.
Brewster was awarded 100000 from
the Hollywood actress for alienation
of affections.
Underneath the current Of the "sec-
ond honeymoons" that do take place
and do not reach the newspapers. are
large number Of unsung second ro-
mances constantly being launched in
the shadow of the divorce courts, the
steady stream of divorce suits that are
withdrawn and the less frequent re-
marriages of those who have fought it
out and therefore consider the odds
all the better for the next try.
MONTVILLE