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Married. Alice Szechenyi, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Szechenyi who was Gladys, daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Count Bela Hadik, son of Count John Hadik, who, once Hungarian premier, is now a member of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament; in Washington, D. C.; by Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., who concluded the service by reading a cablegram from His Holiness Pope Pius XI blessing the couple "as a pledge of heavenly favor...
Engaged. Alice Szechenyi, 19, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Gladys Szechenyi who was the late Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter; and Count Bela Hadik, 26, son of an oldtime Hungarian Prime Minister...
Count Laszlo Szechenyi, the Hungarian Minister, took his wife, who was fashionable Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Newport, R. I., and there, amid surroundings thoroughly familiar to her, established his little diplomatic court. A veteran diplomat, he well knows the impossibility of escaping Washington's torridity in Washington...
...Count & Countess Szechenyi enjoy a Washington popularity second only to that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had a bad automobile accident, suffered the loss of his left eye. Light-hearted despite this, he still rides and drives his car, plays his "fair" game of golf. In Washington the Szechenyis take their social and diplomatic duties most seriously...
...hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...