Reported Engaged. Alicia Patterson, flyer, daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (Chicago Tribune), divorced last October from James Simpson Jr. who is the son of James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; and Peter Grimm,— Shanghai business man whom she met on shipboard while enroute to Tokyo from a hunting expedition in French Indo-China; in Tokyo, Japan. “It is absurd!” said Miss Patterson. “I never was alone with Grimm except for half an hour or so. . . .”
Married. George Alfred Cluett Jr., young member of the New York Stock Exchange, son of retired Board Chairman George Alfred Cluett (haberdashery); and Julia Sturtevant, of Columbus and Chilicothe, Ohio; in Katonah, N. Y.
Married. Gladys Dupuy, daughter of the late Senator Paul Dupuy who founded Le Petit Parisien (world’s greatest daily circulation) and Excelsior which is now managed ably by his widow, the onetime Helen Browne of Chicago; and Prince Guy de Polignac, scion of France’s famed, aristocratic champagne manufacturing family; in the socialite Church of Notre Dame de Grace de Passy in Paris; by the Archbishop of Reims (champagne district). To View many a splendorous gift (a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun, family busts and miniatures, a Stradivarius violin for the bride who fiddles ably) came members of the beau monde—U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to Poland John North Willys, the Duchess of Manchester, Mrs. Marshall Field, the Duchess de Guise, whose son married Princess Isabelle of Orleans-Braganza last month (TIME, April 20), and Lord Tyrrell and Conte-Manzoni, the British and Italian Ambassadors to France.
Married. Gertrude Lamont, daughter of U. S. Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont; and Charles Eskridge Saltzman, son of Major General Charles McKay Saltzman who is Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission; in Washington. At this first “Cabinet wedding” in the present Administration were present President & Mrs. Herbert Hoover, among the ushers was Son Allan Hoover.
Married. William Lindsay White, son of Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, associate editor of the Gazette, member of the lower house of the Kansas Legislature; and Kathrine Klinkenberg, of Ottawa, Kans., resigning member of TIME editorial department; in Manhattan. Their honeymoon: to Kansas by boat.
Married. Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, 40, of the 14th Massachusetts Congressional District; and Florence Booth, 28, president of the Junior League of Louisville, Ky.; in Manhattan. Harvard athlete, Congressman Wigglesworth was chief assistant (1924-27) to Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose wife Louise Todd is also Louisville-born.
Awarded. To Jane Addams, 60: the $5,000 prize for a woman’s “eminent achievement”; by Bryn Mawr College.
Accepted, By Rev. Dr. Stephen Edwards Keeler, rector of St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church, famed for its Chicago socialite congregation (he succeeded Rt. Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, brother of Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School, who is now Bishop of Lexington, Ky.); the call to be Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese of Minnesota, to which he was elected three weeks ago.
Withdrawn. By Mrs. Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb; the divorce suit which she instituted last month against Tyrus Raymond (“Ty”) Cobb, onetime baseball star (TIME, April 27); in Augusta, Ga. Said Mr. Cobb: “She took this step on her own initiative. . . . No further comment is to be made on account of the sacredness relating to her decision.”
Died. Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman, 69, famed Wilsonian president of the University of Virginia, onetime (1896-1900) president of the University of North Carolina, onetime (1900-04) president of Tulane University (New Orleans); of apoplexy, while on his way to Champaign, 111., where he was to speak at the inauguration of President Harry Chase of the University of Illinois. Chosen by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to eulogize her husband before a joint session of Congress in 1924, he said: “He had the heart to match the moral hopes of mankind against their passions. He sought to give the 20th century a faith to inspire it and to justify the sacrifice of millions of lives, and if there was failure it was humanity’s failure. To make him, the one undaunted advocate of those hopes, the scapegoat of a world collapse is to visit upon him injustice so cruel that it must perish of its own unreason.”
Died. Col. Robert Ewing, 71, publisher of the New Orleans States, the Shreveport (La.) Times, the Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning World, Democratic National Committeeman from Louisiana; of heart disease; in New Orleans.
Died. Basilio Cardinal Pompilj, 73, onetime athlete; in Rome.
Died. William Theodore Carrington, 76, retired Chicago and Manhattan broker, a founder of the Chicago Symphony, a backer of the American Opera Company; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.
Died. Mrs. Lucy Skidmore Scribner, 77, founder and board chairman of Skidmore College at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Skidmore School of Arts founded in 1911, changed to Skidmore College in 1922), relict of John Blair Scribner who was the eldest son of Charles Scribner (books); in Saratoga Springs.
Died. George Fisher Baker, 91; of pneumonia; in Manhattan (see p. 61).
*Not to be confused with Peter Grimes (see p. 36.). No relative of Peter Grimm in David Belasco’s famed fictional drama.
From New York City to New Orleans by sea, thence up the Mississippi by river steamer.
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