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Married. Lydig Hoyt, Manhattan scion, onetime (1914-24) husband of Actress Julia Hoyt; to Helen Hoadley Willis of Manhattan; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...outdone by her politically active sister, Manhattan's Langhorne came last week to Houston. No scion of a Virginian First Family, no Maryland Ritchie or Bruce, held her allegiance; she marched in the parade of the Brown Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brown Turbans | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Lucie Bedford, daughter of Frederick T. Bedford,* of Manhattan, yachtsman-president of Penick & Ford (Brer Rabbit molasses and syrup), granddaughter of Standard Oilman E. T. Bedford; to Briggs S. Cunningham, Cincinnati scion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Bound | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Genevieve Carpenter, daughter of famed composer John Alden Carpenter ("Skyscraper Ballet"), to J. Elliot Cabot, Boston scion. When Miss Carpenter made her début in 1922 at a musicale in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Pianist Rubenstein played the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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