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...Tarbell, erstwhile Carrie Nation of petroleum, announced that she would vote for Coolidge. Almost immediately twelve ladies (Harriet Stanton Blatch, Rita Lydig, etc.) asked her by letter to recant and vote for LaFollette...
Sued for divorce. Lydig Hoyt, of Manhattan, by Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt; in Paris. She appeared with William Faversham in The Squaw Man, has played with the Stuart Walker Stock Company and with Billie Burke, was named by Neysa McMein, famed illustrator, as one of the twelve most beautiful women in the United States. Earlier reports had stated that Mr. Hoyt too would...
...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...
...Lydig from her town home, 930 Park Avenue, wishes to deny that the announcement she made on May 26 breaking her engagement to Dr. Grant is in any manner affected by Dr. Grant's resignation from the Church of the Ascension. Furthermore, Mrs. Lydig has no country home and will have nothing further to say on this subject...
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...