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Like most of the events in Stark Young's life, this one was a shooting of the most fashionable rapids. He opened the proceedings with a lecture to 53 lady friends of Greece and art, including the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Countess di Zoppola, Countess Mercati. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a clutch of male critics and writers...
Born into a wealthy family (her grandfather was Banker Robert Livingston Cutting), she made her own debut in 1890 with the present Lady Ribblesdale (once Mrs. John Jacob Astor). When the family fortune fizzled, she taught ballroom dancing, then began to run other people's parties. Among her notable managements were the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, a Long Island party for the Prince of Wales, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania (remembering the gate crashers, she later remarked that apparently "there was never in history a country which had quite so many warm...
Divorced. John Jacob Astor III, 31; by Ellen Tuck French Astor, 26; after eight years; in Reno. She got a million-dollar settlement, joint custody of their son William...
...barbaric American custom of drinking water with meals washed up to the House of Commons last week. Craggy, grey-haired M.P. Eleanor Rathbone and American-born Lady Astor protested that U.S. soldiers were being denied water by British waiters (who, like all European waiters, spring from a line of camels and believe it is sacrilege to mix water and food at the same time). U.S. soldiers, said M.P. Eleanor, were being forced to order mineral waters and beer with their meals. The Government pondered the case, passed it off lightly by noting that British beer is now so watered down...
After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...