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Sued for Divorce. John Harriman of Manhattan, youthful son of Banker Oliver Harriman, nephew of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; by Mrs. Anna Foley Harriman, of Richmond, Va., formerly Mrs. Louis de L'Aigle Munds. Charge: that he had been "notoriously unfaithful...
Born. To Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt; a second daughter...
Heir Expected; by Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the sole U. S. family to have its expectancies almost invariably made known...
...Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted to do is something for the public. ... We did it for the city. . . . This place is city property." Collected for the first night were such as Mr. & Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mr. & Mrs. Conde Nast, Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Grab and the Sheriff of New York County. Maitre d'Hotel Rene Black, "Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick up this dining place as a likely morsel...
Manhattan-Philadelphia financier, and his associates of Dieppe Corp. (including Financier William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr., Banker Jules Semon Bache, Cinemagnates Adolph Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...