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...resignation, Dr. Grant sprang into a taxi and rushed off to the Grand Central Station, accompanied by an unidentified grey-haired woman. He was discovered that evening at Beaver Lodge in Bedford Village, N. Y. For three years the rector had been publicly engaged to Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, captivating gentle woman, in her late forties. Mrs. Lydig married W. E. D. Stokes in 1895 when she was only 16. Divorcing him later, she married a gallant officer, Major Philip M. Lydig, divorced him in Paris in 1919 for incompatibility. Because she was not the innocent party...
Engagement Broken. Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, 64, rector of the Church of the Ascension (Manhattan), and Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 46, divorced wife of W. E. D. Stokes (TIME, Nov. 12, THE PRESS) and Major Philip Lydig. She announced that the engagement was broken "owing to Bishop Manning's refusal to give his consent to a marriage in the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...magnificent opportunity for tragi-comedy of the highest order is buried under an avalanche of rhetoric and pseudo-romance. Miss Mercedes de Acosta, the author, is both beautiful and young. Time may bring her a richer fruition of talents...
Hammer-Throw.--J. S. Acosta, C. G. Boltwood, P. E. Cruikshank, R. D. Hudson, A. N. Into, R. E. Jordan, F. A. Wilmot...
...dashes the hurdles and the weight events the Tiger and Building are more evenly matched. Halsey keek, captain owaley will give stiff competition in the weight event's to cross, Jordan and Acosts of Yale. The last two named both starred at New Haven in football last fall, and Acosta won the Princeton meet last year in the hammer throw...