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—THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
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Eddie Lyons—He's Married Now
EDDIE LYONS.
FAMOUS Nestor comedian leads Virginia Kirtley to the altar and Lee Moran sends an ultimatum.
By MARJORIE HOWARD.
— NCE upon a time there was a famous pair of performers, in vaudeville it must have been, I think, or connected with the Greatest Show of that time on Earth, for one was an exhibition boxer and the other a trainer of trick horses. Their names were Castor and Pollux, they were twins, and they were so good that they have remained stars ever since, and you may see them any fine night as the constellation "Gemini." They say that they were so devoted to each other that when one died the other insisted upon departing this life at the same time. There are those other far-famed "brother acts," David and Jonathan and Damon and Pythias. They have managed to get their names into every book of synonyms under the chapter "Friendship," as pluperfect paragons of devotion. But do you notice that they mostly died young, and that there is hardly a hint of a petticoat in any of their stories? Maybe that is why — but this is treason!
As bosom friends, staunch, devoted, intimate, faithful, none of them had anything on the Nestor "twins," Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran. News just flashed over the wires from Universal City to New York has made the use of the past tense necessary. Eddie has been and went and done it!
What would Castor have done if Pollux had suddenly announced his engagement? How would David have received the weddings cards of Jonathan? What would have been Damon's feelftigs at reading in the "Marriages in Society" column, the name of Pythias? Tradition does not say, but ask Lee — he .knows. He's experiencing all these sensations at this present moment, and the cause of them is one Virginia Kirtley.
Yes, she's a "pitcher" actress — that is the only consoling part of it. If the friends are to be parted at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, which does not rent housekeeping apartments, and opens its doors only once a year to the fair sex, at least they may remain together at the studio. Virginia has been acting as their leading lady, and as long as Lee is very seldom cast in the role of ingenue's lover, there is every prospect of things continuing as they are at present, as far as work is concerned. But
after the day's work is completed, it's a different matter. They say that Lee has already sent an ultimatum to the Lyons' home, in which he states that any attempt on the part of Mrs. Lyons to keep Eddie at home more than four nights a week, will be looked upon as a deliberately unfriendly, in fact an
over act. And now he is awaiting the outcome in great trepidation. Of course, there's an obvious remedy, but Lee says that that is a case of "First catch your girl." The first picture in which the bride and groom appear is provisionally called "The Shame of a Chaperone."