Madeleine - 1933 - 1937

1933



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JOHN JACOB ASTOR REPORTED ENGAGED
Italian Admiral's Daughter Says Donna Cristiana Tor- Ionia Is to Be His Bride.
DENIED BY GIRL'S MOTHER 
Mr. Astor Will Receive $3,000,000 in August - Reported Fiancee Daughter of Italian Prince.

MILAN, Italy, Jan. 30 (AP)
The engagement of John Jacob Astor of New York and Donna Cristiana Torlonia, daughter of Prince Torlonia of Rome and Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia of New York, has been revealed in a letter which Admiral Camperio, retired, has received from his daughter, Luisa Maria, who is now in Annapolis, Md. 
The Admiral, who recently returned from America on the Conte di Savoia, said that the young couple met at Cortina D'Ampezzo, an Italian Alpine resort, last Summer, fell immediately in love, and danced, hiked, and played tennis together.

"Absurd," Says Girl's Mother

MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30 (AP)
Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia of New York tonight denied the reported engagement of her daughter. Donna Christiana Torlonia, to John Jacob Astor.
"There is nothing to the rumor at all," Mrs. Torlonia said. "I want
to deny it emphatically.
"I cannot understand how such a rumor could get started. It is the most absurd thing I ever heard of."
Mrs. Torlonia was reached aboard the yacht Seaborn, owned by Richard Howe. Her daughter is with her, she said. 
Mrs. Torlonia. said she would leave here shortly aboard the Seaborn for a Southern cruise. She said she did not know exactly where the cruise would take the party.
Miss Camperio Confirms Father.

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 30 (AP)
The marriage of John Jacob Astor and Donna Cristiana Torlonia probably will take place in April, Donna Cristiana's close friend, Luisa Maria Camperio, said here today.
"We have known about It for a long time," Miss Camperio said. "I don't believe fhe date has been set, but it will be sometime in April."
Miss Camperio said she believed there was so.r.ae objection by the prospective bridegroom's mother to the marriage on account of his youth, but added she did not believe this was serious. Donna Cristiana is a year his junior.
Miss Camperio said she had been asked to be a bridesmaid. and that she was waiting final settlement of the date for the wedding before making plans to sail to Italy, where the marriage would take place.
Miss Camperio is visiting at the home of Mrs. Mason Porter Cusachs.


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PALM BEACH. Fla Jan. 30
Mrs. William K. Dick, when seen here today, said the engagement of her son, :John :Jacob Astor, and Donna Cristiana Torlonia. must be confirmed by Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia. who is a member of a party on Richard Howe's yacht, Seaborn, at Miami. Mr. Astor arrived here this afternoon from New York.
A Debutante of Last Year.
Donna. Christiana is the second daughter of Mrs. Torlonia of 375 Park Avenue, this city, and Greenwich, Conn., and of Don Marino of the Dukes ot Torlonia. Her parents are divorced. She is a granddaughter of the late Charles Arthur Moore wealthy hardware merchant of this city and Greenwich, and one-time president of the American Protective Tariff League. The marriage of her parents took place in the Summer of 1907 at the Moore estate in Greenwich. Donna Cristiana is a niece of Charles A. Moore, of Greenwich and the sister of Don Alessandro and Donna Marina TorIonia and the late Donna Elsie Torlonia. She was introduced to society in the season of 1931-32.
Mr. Astor will become of age on Aug. 14, 1933, when he will come into possession of the $3,000,000 left him by his father. He was born four months after the death of his father, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster. He is the half brother of Vincent Astor and of Mrs. Raimund von Hofmannsthal, the former Alice Muriel Astor, and one-time Princess Serge Obolensky. He also is a half-brother of William and John H. Dick.
On the paternal side Mr. Astor is a descendant of the original John Jacob Astor, and on the maternal side, a grandson of Mrs. William H. Force and the late Mr. Force. He attended St. George's School in Newport, R. I.




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1933 June 5
MRS. DICK GOES TO RENO: Her Secretary Refuses to Comment on Divorce Report

Mrs. William K. Dick, widow of the late John Jacob Astor, who was lost in the Titanic disaster, left last night for Reno.
At her home at 7 East Eighty-fourth Street Mrs. Dick's secretary declined to discuss published reports that Mrs. Dick's departure was the first step in a plan to divorce her second husband.
Mrs. Dick was married to her first husband in 1911. A son, John Jacob Astor Jr., was born to her a short time after Mr. Astor's death the following year. In 1916 she was married to Mr. Dick, a childhood fiance, sacrificing a great part of the fortune left to her by Mr. Astor. Mr. and Mrs. Dick have two sons, William Force Dick and John Henry Dick.


1933 June 10 Madeleine will ask for a divorce.

Madeleine ‘New York society woman’ is in Reno to file suit for divorce from William K. Dick.  She arrived last night and has retained an attorney. It is expected the suit will be filed when Mrs. Dick completes the required six weeks’ residence. (New York Times, 1933)



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1933 June 10
MRS. W. K. DICK IN RENO.
Former Madeleine Force Astor Will Ask Divorce.
RENO, Nev., June 9 (AP) Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, New York society woman, is in Reno to file suit for divorce from William K. Dick.
She arrived last night. It was learned today she had retained an attorney.
Mrs. Dick's first husband was John Jacob Astor, victim of the Titanic disaster. She is the former Madeleine T. Force.
It is expected the suit will be filed when Mrs. Dick completes the required six weeks' residence.


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BOXER DENIES HE'LL WED.
Enzo Fiermonte Says He Scarcely Knows Mrs. W.K. Dick.
RENO, Nev., June 17 (AP) Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, who has been seen here in the company of Mrs. William K. Dick, the former Mrs. John Jacob Astor, today characterized as "a lot of baloney" reports published in Rome that he and Mrs. Dick planned to marry. He denied too that he had established residence here to divorce Signora Fiermonte and said he planned to leave Reno within a week.
"Mrs. Dick and I," Fiermonte said, "hardly know each other. I am the friend of her sons and I came here to isit them. It is not fair to Mrs. Dick to say these things when they are not so. She is a fine woman. I have only met her three times."
Fiermonte arrived in Reno about June 5. Three days later Mrs. Dick arrived and announced her intention of seeking a Nevada divorce. 
Fiermonte has taken out a Nevada automobile license.




1933 July 21, Minden, Nevada, Madeleine divorced William K. Dick

Madeleine was divorced from William K. Dick but remains silent on reported plans for a third matrimonial venture. Although both she and Enzo Fiermonte, the Italian pugilist, have both denied that they are more than just friends, reports persisted here and in Reno the two would be married as soon as he was divorced from Signora Tosca Kanetti Fiermonte of Rome. (New York TImes, 1933)

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1933 July 22
MRS. DICK GETS DIVORCE.
Former Mrs. John Jacob Astor Silent About Future Plans.
MINDEN, Nev., July 21 (AP) THe former Mrs. John Jacob Astor was divorced here today from William K. Dick of New York City, remaining silent meanwhile on reported plans for a third matrimonial venture.
Although both she and Enzo Fiermonte, the Italian pugilist, have both denied that they are more than just friends, reports persisted here and in Reno the two would be married as soon as he was divorced from Signora Tosca Kanetti Fiermoneti of Rome.
Mrs. Dick was the second wife of Colonel Astor, who was lost on the Titanic.
On June 22, 1917, in Bar Harbor, Me., Colonel Astor's widow became the wife of William Karl Dick of New York.
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1933 September 5
Pugilist Was Linked in Nevada Reports With Mrs. Dick.

RENO Sept. 4 A divorce has been awarded to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, linked in some reports in a romance with the former Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
The hearing was held Frieday during the noon hour and was  attended only by court officials, attorneys, and Fiermonte. Judge Clark J. Guild granted the decree.
Settlement of property differences with his wife Signora Tosaca Manetti Fiermonte of Rome was believed to have made filing of the divorce suit possible Friday. Negotiations for a settlement had been under way since Fiermonte established residence in Nevada last June 5.
Both he and Mrs. William K. Dick, who is the former Mrs. Astor, arrived here about the same time and were seen together frequently prior to her divorce July 21 at Minden. Both denied, however, that they had matrimonial intentions.
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MRS. DICK WILLED ESTATE TO FAMILY
Wife of W. Kingsland Macy to Share in $2,353,604 Left by Islip Woman. WALLWORTH LEFT $200,000 Widow and Father to Share Trust — Jesuits Aided by Dr. R.H. Greene's Will.
RIVERHEAD, L.I., Sept. 5. — The will of Mrs. Julia T. Mollenhauer Dick, socially prominent widow of J. Henry Dick, sugar refiner, was filed in the Suffolk County Surrogate's Court here today.
The will disposes of an estate of a gross value of $2,552,181.05, and a net value of $2,353,604.07. The State transfer tax will amount to $125,488.33. Mrs. Julia D. Macy, wife of W. Kingsland Macy, Republican State Chairman, and Mrs. Doris D. Havemeyer, both of Islip, daughters of the testator, receive jewelry and wearing apparel. Each is to receive one-fourth of the income from the residuary estate during her lifetime and at her death the principal is to go to her issue. William K. and Adolph M. Dick, sons, of Islip, receive books, pictures and household furnishings and each receives one-fourth of the residuary.
Mrs. Dick died on July 2, 1931. She had lived in Islip for forty-five years, also maintaining a residence at 920 Fifth Avenue, New York. Her father, John Mollenhauer, and her husband's father, William Dick, both immigrants from Germany, laid the foundations for the sugar refining industry in this country. Mrs. Dick's husband was prominently identified with Long Island real estate.
William K. Dick married the widow of Colonel John Jacob Astor. They were divorced last month.
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1933 September 14
MRS. DICK IS INJURED. Falls on Floor of Bermuda House, Breaking Shoulder.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept. 13 (AP) Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick slipped and fell on the polished floor of her house last night and broke her shoulder.
Mrs. Dick, whose first husband was John Jacob Astor, and William K. Dick were divorced last July in Nevada. Enzo Fiermonte, young Italian boxer, who arrived in Bermuda last Thursday, said he had come to ask Mrs. Dick to marry him but she had not replied to his proposal.
Mrs. Dick is in King Edward Hospital and is progressing well. Fiermonte is a guest at Bellevue, the home of Charles F. Rogers, which Mrs. Dick has taken for an indefinite period.


1933 September 14 – Madeleine is hospitalized for sustaining injury from fall at home in Bermuda

Madeleine fell on the polished floor of her house and broke her shoulder. Enzo Fiermonte, young Italian boxer, who arrived in Bermuda last Thursday, said he had come to ask Mrs. Dick to marry him but she had not replied to his proposal.  Mrs. Dick is in King Edward Hospital and is progressing well.  Fiermonte is a guest at Bellevue, the home of Charles F. Rogers, which Mrs. Dick has taken or an indefinite period. (New York Times, 1933)

1933 November4 – Madeleine returns to NYC – goes to Doctors Hospital

Madeleine returned to NYC from Bermuda by ship, the Monarch, and was taken on her arrival carried from the ship on stretcher then transported by ambulance to Doctors Hospital. Dr. Carnes Weeks, 44 East 68th Street, who went to Bermuda to bring Mrs. Dick back said she was not critically ill but was still recovering from ‘a badly broken arm’ and would remain at the hospital until the arm was completely healed.  Mrs. Dick refused to see reporters who sought to confirm the statement of Enzo Fiermonte, Italian boxer, that he would be married as soon as she recovered.  On the ship with her were a maid and Miss Edith Searle, her personal secretary, who objected vehemently to the efforts of reporters to interview her employer.  These efforts Miss Searle characterized as ‘torture and persecution.’  Mrs. Dick was met at the pier by her son, John Jacob Astor, Miss Phyllis Walsh, her friend, and several others who remained with her until 10:30 AM when she was taken to the ambulance. Fiermonte returned several weeks ago after being refused permission to land in Bermuda. (New York TImes, 1933)

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1933 November 4
MRS. DICK RETURNS
CARRIED TO HOSPITAL
Still Suffering From Effect of Broken Arm, Doctor Says — Silent on Boxer.
Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, former widow of the late John Jacob Astor and divorced wife of William K. Dick, returned from Bermuda yesterday on the Monarch of Bermuda, and was carried from the ship in a stretcher. She was taken in an ambulance to the Doctors Hospital.
Dr. Carnes Weeks, 244 Eat Sixty-eighth Street, who went to Bermuda to bring Mrs. Dick back, said she was not critically ill, but was still recovering from "a badly broken arm," suffered when she fell to the floor of her Bermuda home two months ago. He said she would remain at the hospital unitl the arm was completely healed.
Mrs. Dick refused to see reporters who sought to confirm the statement of Enzo Fiermonte, Italian boxer, what he and MRs. Dick would be married as soon as she reocvered. Dr. Weeks acted as intermediary and returned from Mrs. Dick's cabin with the reply that she had nothing to say.
On the ship with her were a maid and Miss Edith Searle, her personal secretary, who objected vehemently to the efforts of reporters to interview her employer. These eforts Miss Searle characterized as "torture and persecution."
Mrs. Dick was met at the pier by her son, John Jacob Astor 3d, Miss Phyllis walsh, her friend, and serval others who remained with her until she was taken to the ambulance.
fiermonte returned several weeks ago after being refused permission to land at Bermuda, where he had gone to visit Mrs. Dick.


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1933 November 28
Mrs. Dick Married to Fiermonte, Boxer, In Civil Ceremony in Hospital Room Here
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick and Enzo Fiermonte, Italian middleweight pugilist, were married at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Mrs. Dick's room at the Doctors Hospital, East End Avenue and Eighty-seventh Street. Mrs. Dick is 40 years old; Mr. Fiermonte, 26.
The marriage license was issued at the bedside by Deputy City Clerk Philip A. Hines, after Mrs. Dick's physician, Dr. Julian M. Freston of 768 Park Avenue had sent a letter to the Marriage License Bureau certifying that Mrs. Dick was unable to leave the hospital. The law, in such cases, permits the City Clerk or his deputy to issue the license elsewhere.
The ceremony was performed by City Court Justice Vincent Lippe. Among the guests were: Mrs. William H. Force, mother of Mrs. Dick; her three sons, John Jacob Astor and William and John H. Dick; her cousin, Philip Lyndon Dodge and Mrs. Dodge; Mrs. Jay F. Carlisle, and a few intimate friends of Mr. Fiermonte whose names could not be obtained last night.
It was Mrs. Dick's third marriage. Her first husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor, to whom whe was married in Newport, R.I., on Sept. 9, 1911, lost his life in the Titanic disaster in April, 1912. Her second husband was William K. Dick, a childhood chum. They were married in Bar Harbor, Me., on June 22, 1917, and divorced in Minden, Nev., on July 21, 1933.
Mr. Fiermonete also has been married before. His wife was Signora Tosaca Manetti Fiermonte of Rome. He obtained a divorce from her at Reno, Nev., on Sept. 4 after making a property settlement.
Mrs. Dick was in the hospital suffering from a broken shoulder received when she slipped and fell on a highly polished floor in her home in Bermuda last September. After the fall she was taken to the King Edward Hospital in Hamilton. Early in November she returned to New York and was taken on her arrival here to the Doctors Hospital.
Questioned last night as to how much longer she would be compelled to remain in the hospital, officials of the hospital said they did not know.
Mr. Dodge, who acted as spokesman for the family, said he had no idea of the future plans of the Fiermontes. Asked if Fiermonte would give up his ring career, Mr. Dodge replied: "I suppose so; in fact, he hasn't done any fighting for some time."


1934



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FIERMONTE TO FIGHT MAXIE ROSENBLOOM
Projected Title Match Will Be Italian's First Since He Married Mrs. Dick.
Negotiations are under way for a light-heavyweight championship match between Enzo Fiermonte, the Italian boxer who married Mrs. William K. Dick, the former Mrs. John Jacob Astor, and Maxie Rosenbloom, the titleholder. This was revealed yesterday by James J. Johnston, vice president of boxing at Madison Square Garden, after long-distance telephone talks with the two boxers.
Both are willing to fight at the Garden in September, but outside of their expressed willingness to battle no other steps have been taken. No contracts have been signed or terms discussed by either party, although Fiermonte wishes to donate his share of the purse to charity. The Italian · pugilist will confer with Johnston today. 
When the Garden matchmaker broached the· idea to Fiermonte at Miami last Winter, the boxer at first refused to consider the plan Johnston pressed the matter last week and yesterday received a phone call from Fiermonte from Boston. The Italian said he was ready to fight. Immediately. Johnston communicated with the champion in Los Angeles.
Fiermonte, who came to this country two years ago as a middleweight boxer, has never engaged in a main fight outside of small clubs. He and Mrs. Dick were married in New York on Nov. 27. while Mrs. Dick was in a hospital recovering from a broken arm. He gave up pugilism and had made no attempt to return to the ring until be phoned Johnston yesterday.
Fiermonte had been managed by Charlie Johnston, brother of the Garden matchmaker.



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YOUNG ASTOR TELLS OF WEDDING PLANS
Newspaper Group Is Informed That the Couple Will Return to Newport in August.
NEWPORT, R.I., June 28. — John Jacob Astor 3d told a group of newspaper men and women whom he had as visitors today that he did not plan to have an extended wedding trip. Mr. Astor, who is to marry Miss Ellen Tuck French on Saturday, said he and his bride expect to be back early in August to spend the rest of the Summer here.
Mr. Astor permitted his visitors to inspect the many wedding gifts at Chetwode, his new home. The gifts, pieces of silver cut glass linens and other articles, were displayed on long tables in the dining room.
Miss French was a guest at Chetwade at the time. showing a group of friends the gifts, but she was not present at the interview.
He has given a new automobile of expensive make and small pieces of jewelry to his fiancee as wedding gifts, Mr. Astor said.
The 32-carat Eugenie diamond about which Mr. Astor recently had a difference with the family of Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie, his previous fiancee, will be reset in a brooch and will be kept among the family jewels, he said. It will not be reset in the original brooch. The diamond had been set in the engagement ring Miss Gillespie returned.
Mr. Astor granted the interview at a conference that he called at his home with the reporters who are here to cover the wedding. He stipulated that questions first be submitted and that unanswered questions were not to be repeated,saying at the outset:
"I desire to cooperate with the press in any and all matters of legitimate news value. I regret, as does Miss French, that stories have been issued without foundation in fact or reason.
"I  will be glad to answer questions that I consider proper if they are submitted in writing at this time. Any questions not answered are not to be repeated.
As to the plans for our wedding trip, we feel that long custom has decreed this not to be the subject of publicity as is the wedding itself." Mr. Astor expressed the hope that his mother's  condition would permit her to come to Newport to attend the wedding. This was in in response to a question as to whether Enzo Fiermonte, his stepfather, and his mother would attend.
'I hope to learn some business and later establish a business of my own,' he told an inquirer regarding his future plans. His health, he said, was "all right" and he looked it.
He also touched upon his relations with his half-brother, Vincent Astor.
"I have always been most friendly with him and still am," he declared.
Many questions were submitted by the correspondents, who were gathered about the dining-room table, and in due time they were answered. But when Mr. Astor was asked about the gifts that had been given him by his fiancee, he said that these would not be made known until the wedding day.
He invited the news gatherers to attend the wedding rehearsal, which will take place tomorrow afternoon at the church, and he concluded the conference by showing the visitors about the lower floor of his home.
TO ATTEND ASTOR BRIDAL.
Trinity Parishioners in Newport Win Entry for Wedding.
NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 (AP). — Plans for exclusiveness for the Astor-French wedding, to take place here on Saturday, were today set aside at a special meeting of the vestry of famous old Trinity Episcopal Church. The church will be "open as usual" to the regular parishioners in addition to the invited wedding guests.
Word had gone out from Mrs. Livingston French, mother of Miss Ellen Tuck French, fiancee of John jacob Astor 3d, that only persons with invitations would be admitted to the ceremony.
But from Trinity Church came this statement:
If any of our parishioners want to attend the ceremony but haven't cards, they will be admitted as long as there is room."
It was not a new rule, explained the Rev. James Green, assistant rector. Three members of the vestry brought to his attention today, he said, reports that restriction was planned by invitation.
"I made it clear to them," said the assistant rector, "that the church will be open, as always, to its parishioners, beyond Mrs. French's reservations.' He said he was not aware that Mrs. French had limited admission to the ceremony.
"No person within the church," he said, "can make a ruling for the church."
The church will seat only 600, and it is understood that the guest list numbers 250-consequently there
can be only 350 more, at the most. i
Like the French and Astor families, Trinity Parish wishes to avoid a crowd of "gazers." 
"Two of our young people are coming to Trinity to say their
prayers and be married," said the assistant rector. "We want to keep it as simple as possible. Our regu1ar ushers will be at the door, and they know the parish. The general public definitely will not be admitted."
A "wine-glass" pulpit in the quaint little Colonial church will almost screen Mr. Astor and his bride trom view while the marriage ceremony takes place. Standing squarely in the aisle. the tall pulpit hides the centre altar from part. of the house. 
The Astor wedding party will go up a short walk through an old burying ground surrounded by an iron fence and shaded by one big tree.
The chimes in the slim spire, which la topped by the device 
the British crown, will not sound for the wedding. They ring only
for Sunday services.
In one of the maroon-cushioned pews with four-foot sides, Mrs. William H. Force, Mr. Astor's grandmother, will be seated. His aunt Mrs. Spencer Lorillard, also will be there. These two will be his nearest relatives on the scene. His half-brother, Vincent Astor, is in Europe, and ill health will prevent the presence of his mother, Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte, wife of the Italian boxer. 
There has been much speculation over the make-up of the guest list, but it is certain that Dr. Ernst Franz S. Hanfstaengl, Chancellor Hitler's aide, will be present. He will be a guest of the bride's father.

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Flowers From W.H. Vanderbilt.
NEWPORT, R.I., June 28. — The decorations in Trinity Church for the Astor-French wedding on Saturday will be marked by simplicity. The palms, ferns and cut flowers, the latter mainly white, will be brought from Oakland Farm, in Portsmouth, home of William H. Vanderbilt, a cousin of the bride-elect. The gardener of the estate will arrange them.
Francis O. French, who will give his daughter in marriag, is expected to arrive at the Viking tomorrow, with Mrs. French. William K. Dick, former stepfather of Mr. Astor, will arrive for the wedding with his son, William Force Dick, on Saturday at the Muenchinger King. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Livingston Burrill, grandparents of the bride-to-be, are also expected today to be the guests of their daughter, Mrs. French. Another daughter, Mrs. W. Whitewright Watson of New York has arrived at the Muenchinger King.
The Rev. Dr. Edward Travers of Rhinebeck, N. Y., who will assest the Rev. Harold St. George Burrill oof Emanuel Church, will arrive tomorrow at the Muenchinger King with Mrs. Travers and their daughter, Miss Jane Travers.



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MOTHER OF ASTOR TO ATTEND BRIDAL: Despite Illness, Mrs. Fiermonte Goes Alone to Newport for Marriage to Miss French. FORMER HUSBAND A GUEST W. K. Dick to Be in Trinity Church Today — Rehearsal for the Ceremony Takes Place.

Both Madeleine and William Karl Dick attended the wedding of Miss Ellen Tuck French and John Jacob Astor (her first son).  The article also states that initially he had opposed his mother’s wedding to Enzo Fiermonte although he attended. (New York Times, 1934)

Footage of the venue and bride: "THE ASTOR WEDDING - Heir to millions marries Miss Ellen Tuck French at Old Trinity Church, Newport, R. I."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRZT-1nMJ0)

Madeleine is spotted by YouTube commentors at 0:34 the woman in front in between two boys.   Since that lady is wearing the double-strand pearl necklace Madeleine always wore – seems legit!



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Open All-Age and Puppy Stakes Annexed by Decoy at East Islip Field Trials

HARRIMAN'S DECOY TAKES TWO STAKES Wins Puppy and Open All-Age Tests in Labrador Retriever Club Field Trial Meet. SMUDGE ALSO TRIUMPHS Dick's Dog Annexes American-Bred Competition — 44 Run in Three Events.

By Henry R. Isley. Special to the New York Times.

EAST ISLIP, L.I., Nov. 26. — William A. Harriman of Arden, N.Y., carried off the honors of the fourth field trial meeting of the Labrador Retriever Club today on the estate of Charles L. Lawrance.

In many respects it was a remarkable decision that gave to Mr. Harrlman's home-bred puppy Decoy not only first in the puppy stake but the highest award in the open all-age event, the supreme test of Labrador retrievers in this country.

This puppy, which was whelped on March 20, 1933, by Odds On out of Peggy of Shipton, was bandied by Thomas Briggs and was one of the two outstanding competitors in the puppy stake this morning. Both on land and in water she performed satisfactorily, demonstrating control, ability to mark and keen and kindly retrieving.

Decoy failed to place in the American-bred stake, but came back strongly in the open all-age event, the event in which she faced the sternest opposition from the best of the home-breds and the stars that had been brought across from England.

Blind Places in Three Stakes.

Mr. Harriman and his trainer cleaned up handsomely in the three stakes contested. They placed second in the all-age event with the home-bred puppy Blind, which also was second in the puppy stake and third in the American-bred stake.

Then they placed second in the American-bred stake with the home-bred dog Sam, certainly enough honors in a single day's competition against the best retrievers in the country.

With a total entry of forty-four in three stakes, the meeting was undoubtedly a success, although the breaks militated against many of the contestants. Weather conditions entered into this, with snow flurries in the late morning and rain and high winds in the afternoon Decoy, according to a strict check on her work in the field, was not far above her opposition. It is not improbable that her flashiness won her the award. In her opportunity in the second series she certainly made good and could not have failed to Impress the judges and likewise enthuse the gallery.

It was one of those tests that characterize a good retriever. She marked well a crippled bird. The bird got up and was marked again by the bitch. She went on, caught her quarry and came in nicely, delivering to hand. When she passed her water test successfully later, going out and back on a straight line, there was little on which she could be faulted.

Raffles of Earlsmoor Third.

Third in the all-age stake went to Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Milbank of New York City with their Raffles of Earlsmoor. Dr. Milbank handling. Jay F. Carlisle of East Islip, placed fourth with his noted importation, Drinkstone Pons of Wingan.

Certificates of merit were awarded

to Lawrance for his Garscibe and to Mrs. Audrey Field of Huntington for her Carl of Boghurst.

In the puppy stake Alfred Ely's Bugla Brant was third, with fourth to Robert Goelet's dog Dasher of Glenmere.

W. K. Dick of Islip won handsomely in the American bred stake with his dog Smudge, handled by Jock Munro.

An interesting deviation for the gallery was the pheasant drive, in which the second and third series dogs of both leading stakes participated.


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MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS
Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday.
Enzo Fiermonte, the Italian boxer who married Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, mother of John Jacob Astor, wirelessed The Associated Press last night from a steamship, bound for Europe that he and his wife had effected a reconciliation.
"In spite of previous statements in the papers I am glad to say that Mrs. Fiermonte and I are reconciliated," said a message which was signed Enzo Fiermonte.
The couple have been estranged for several months, and there was talk of an impending divorce to end an international romance which began in Venice and Rome.
Mr. Fiermonte sailed Saturday on the Italian liner Roma. It was not confirmed at the time that his wife was on board, but officials of the line said after the sailing that a woman giving the name Mrs. Madeleine Fiermonte had presented a passport to the purser after the ship put to sea. 
Mr. Fiermonte and the former wife of William K. Dick were married in New York on Nov. 28, 1933, in a room at Doctors Hospital, where she was recuperating from a broken arm.
The couple first met at the Lido Beach. in Venice in the Summer of 1932. Mr. Fiermonte followed Mrs. Dick to New York and Palm Beach and tried to enter Bermuda, where she has a home, but was denied admission to the country. He pursued his suit when Mrs. Dick came to New York to recover from the effects of a Fall. 
Mrs. Fiermonte, whose maiden name was Madeleine Talmadge Force, was married in 1911 to John Jacob Astor, who was drowned on the Titanic.

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POLLY CAMPBELL TO BE WED TODAY
1935 March 9
Marriage to Adolph M. Dick Will Take Place at Home of Bridegroom's Brother.
W. K. DICK TO BE BEST MAN

The Prospective Bride Passed Several Years in Europe - 
Attended Rosemary Hall.

Miss Polly Campbell of this city, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Malcom Campbell of Detroit, will be married today to Adolph M. Dick of 333 East Fifty-seventh Street and East Islip, Long Island. The ceremony will be performed in the afternoon in the presence of the families and a few friends by the Rev. Dr. Paul E. Scherer of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at the home of Mr. Dick's brother, William K. Dick of 7 East Eighty-fourth Street.
Miss Campbell will be given in marriage by her father. She will dispense with attendants. William K. Dick will be best man.
After her graduation from Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn., Miss Campbell passed several years in Europe. She is a sister of Mrs. Charles G. Stradella of 1,165 Fifth Avenue and of Donald M. Campbell Jr. of New York.
Mr. Dick is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Dick and a brother of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer of 960 Fifth Avenue and of Mrs. W. Kingsland Macy of 778 Park Avenue. He is a nephew of Mrs. J. Adolph Mollenhauer of Brooklyn and the late Mr. Mollenhauer. His family has long been identified with the sugar industry.
Mr. Dick was graduated from Yale in 1917 and from the School of Architecture of Columbia University in 1923. He is a member of the firm Fuller & Dick, architects. Mr. Dick is an ardent yachtsman and is owner o the schooner Vega. He is a member of the University, Rauet and Tennis and the New York Yacht Clubs.

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POLLY CAMPBELL TO BE WED TODAY
1935 March 9
Marriage to Adolph M. Dick Will Take Place at Home of Bridegroom's Brother.
W. K. DICK TO BE BEST MAN

The Prospective Bride Passed Several Years in Europe - 
Attended Rosemary Hall.

Miss Polly Campbell of this city, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Malcom Campbell of Detroit, will be married today to Adolph M. Dick of 333 East Fifty-seventh Street and East Islip, Long Island. The ceremony will be performed in the afternoon in the presence of the families and a few friends by the Rev. Dr. Paul E. Scherer of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at the home of Mr. Dick's brother, William K. Dick of 7 East Eighty-fourth Street.
Miss Campbell will be given in marriage by her father. She will dispense with attendants. William K. Dick will be best man.
After her graduation from Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn., Miss Campbell passed several years in Europe. She is a sister of Mrs. Charles G. Stradella of 1,165 Fifth Avenue and of Donald M. Campbell Jr. of New York.
Mr. Dick is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Dick and a brother of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer of 960 Fifth Avenue and of Mrs. W. Kingsland Macy of 778 Park Avenue. He is a nephew of Mrs. J. Adolph Mollenhauer of Brooklyn and the late Mr. Mollenhauer. His family has long been identified with the sugar industry.
Mr. Dick was graduated from Yale in 1917 and from the School of Architecture of Columbia University in 1923. He is a member of the firm Fuller & Dick, architects. Mr. Dick is an ardent yachtsman and is owner o the schooner Vega. He is a member of the University, Rauet and Tennis and the New York Yacht Clubs.

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1935 March 10

Dick -- Campbell

The marriage of Miss Polly Campbell of this city, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Malcom Campbell of Detroit, to Adolph M. Dick of New York and East Islip, Long Island, took place yesterday afternoon at the home o the bridegroom's brother, William K. Dick, at 7 East Eight-fourth Street. The Re. Dr. Paul E. Scherer of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church performed the ceremony in the presence of a few relatives and friends of the couple.

The bride, who was escorted by her father, dispensed with attendants. William K. Dick was best man for his brother.

The couple will go to Florida on their wedding trip and will lie in this city on their return. Mr. Dick is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Dick and is a member of hte architectural firm Fuller & Dick.

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MRS. MOLLENHAUER DIES AT BAY SHORE

Widow and Daughter of Sugar Refiners Social Leader in Long Island Areas.

ACTIVE IN PHILANTHROPY

Benefactor of Many Charities Was President of Y. W. C. A. in Suffolk County.

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

BAY SHORE, L. I., Oct. 11. Mrs. Anna M. Mollenhauer, widow of J. Adolph Mollenhauer, Brooklyn sugar refiner, died at her Summer home here on South Awixa A venue today after a lingering illness. She was 75 years old.

Her husband was one ot the group of Havemeyers, Dicks and Mollenhauers that organized and developed the sugar industry in this country. He died on March 6, 1926, on board his nrivate yacht, Anado, at Miami Beach. leaving an estate in excess of $3,000,000.

Mrs. Mollenhauer was born in Brooklyn. the daughter of William and Anna Dick. Her father came here from Germany as a poor immigrant and, with scanty resources, built up his sugar-refining business to a powerful position. He founded the Dick-Meyer Sugar Company and also became a noted factor in the banking business in Brooklyn.

John Mollenhauer, her husband's father, also came here from Germany and built up the Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Company. Later be aided in organizing the great merger that eatablished the National Sugar Refining Company, and gave the business the strongest position it had ever had. The large fortunes accumulated by the Mollenhauer and Dick families in the sugar-refining industry were combined by marriage, Anna Dick marrying J,, Adolph Mollenhauer and her brother, the late J. Henry Dick, marrying Jul fa A. Mollenhauer.

Socially Prominent Families.

The Mollenhauer and Dick families were among the earliest settlers of social prominence and wealth in the Bay Shore and Islip sections of the south shore of Long Island.

Since the death of her husband Mrs. Mollenhauer had spent most of each year at her Bay Shore place, occupying her residence at 16C Henry Street. Brooklyn. during part of the Winter. She had been active socially and in philanthropic work in Brooklyn and Bay Shore until recently.

She was a benefactor of many charities and aided many communal enterprises. She was also keenly interested in World War veterans' organizations. The Bay Shore Memorial Building is a monument to the generosity of Mrs. Mollenhauer and her husband, as they were largely responsible for its construction after the war. 

She was greatly interested in the Home of St. Giles the Cripple and for many years was chairman of the Tiny Tim Society of this institution. She was long active as head of the Visiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn, to which she gave an annual scholarship in 1928.

Head of Suffolk Y. W. C. A.

At the time of her death Mrs. Mollenhauer was president of the Suffolk County Y. W. C. A. She was a member of the national board of the Y. W. C. A. and past president of the Eastern District (Brooklyn) Y. W. C. A. She also was a member of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, the Library, Music Lovers and Garden Clubs of Bay Shore; honorary president of the Bay Shore Brightwaters Community Association and president for a long period of the alumnae association of the Moravian School for Girls, Bethlehem, Pa., of which she was a graduate.

Mrs. Moilenhauer was a member of the Emanuel Lutheran Church of Patchogue. The near relatives who survive are the four children of her only brother, the late J. Henry Dick - William K. Dick, who married Madeline T. Force Astor; Adolph M. Dick, Mrs. Horace Havemeyer and Mrs. W. Kingsland Macy; also two other nieces, Mrs. Julia McWethy of Aurora, Ill., and Mrs. Virginia Maynard of Brooklyn.




1936


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AMENDS SEC REGISTRATION
Universal Corporation Gives Prices of Stock to Be Offered June 30.
Special to THE New York
WASHINGTON, June 8.-The Universal Corporation, holding company for Universal Pictures and allied enterprises, has filed an amendment to its registration of securities under the Securities Act of 1933 giving the prices at which its common stock will be offered and setting June 30 as the offering date.
Offering prices are as follows:
1-130.000 shares to underwriters at $8 a share and to public at $10 a share.
2-211.569 shares to be offered by the issuer directly at SB & share. Subscriptions alrea.dy have been received from the following: Paul G. Brown. 13,100 shares; Antoinette K. Brown, 2,500; J. Cheever Cowdin, 6.500; . D. M. Sheaffer, 12,600; Douglas B. Wa.rfleld, 5.000; William K. Dick, 5,000: George G. Baker, 2,000; William Koenig. 10,000.
3-266,666 2-3 shares to holder of debentures at the then existing conversions rate in the event that the debenturea are converted.
4-222.556 share.s at $10 to hoiders at the warrants now outstanding 1n the event that the warrants are exercised.


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1936 June 11

THE J.C. COWDINS ARE DINNER HOSTS

They Entertain in Roof Garden of St. Regis for Lord and Lady Milford Haven.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin gave a dinner last night in the Viennese Roof Garden of the St. Regis for Lord and Lady Milford Haven. The other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ottavio Prochet, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Forgan, Mrs. Julien St. C. Chaqueneau, Mrs. Jorge R. Andre, Miss Corinne Griffith, Prince Serge Obolensky, William K. Dick and M. Dorland Doyle.

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MANY NEWCOMERS REACH HOT SPRINGS

Mrs. Henry Walters Arrives From Newport — Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Halsey Are Hosts.

HOT SPRINGS, Va., Sept. 30. — Mrs. Henry Walters arrived from Newport this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Britton Katte of New York are newcomers.

Recent arrivals are Mr. and Mrs. Buell Hollister of Islip, L. I.; William K. Dick, D. T. Ware, Alan K. Dolliver, H. T. Ross, J. Gay Seabourne, Eugene Barry, Mr. and Mrs. John Wickstrom and William Mazer of New York: Cal Coursen of Madison, N. J . : Raymond Rodgers of Jackson Heights, Queens; Mrs. T. B . Mead and Meserole H. Mead of White Plains. N. Y.; Fred Stocker of Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. D. E. McMichael, Albert G. Moreheart and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lamson of Ne,vark, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Halsey of Rumson. N. J., gave a dinner in the Colonial Room this evening.

Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Farrelly. Mr. and Mrs. George McLaughlin, Miss Kay Stammers, William Jackson Clothier, J. Potter Stockton and H. Levan Richards. Richard A. Parke entertained with a dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Martin M. Foss and Mrs. William Wetmore.

Mrs. Tate B. Sterrett gave a luncheon at the Cascades Club today for Mrs. George A. Ellis, Mrs. William Sergeant Kendall. Miss Nancy Cowardin. llr1iss Eleanor Hopkins, Miss Elizabeth Povelson, Mrs. W. W. Gibbs. Mrs. J. W. C. Jones, Mrs. Fitzbaugh Elder. Mrs. Richard Bell and Mrs. Clark Worthington. H. A. Fife of New York gave a stag dinner in the Pilgrim Room. 

An informal skeet tournament will be held on the Homestead Skeet Field tomorrow for dog fanciers who are here for the trials.



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Doris Havemeyer Fiancee of Daniel Callin

Her Father Is President of Sugar Company

Mr. and Mrs. Horace Havemeyer of 960 Fifth Avenue and Islip, L. I., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Doris Havemeyer, to Dr. Daniel Catlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Catlin of St. Louis and Dublin, N. H. Miss Havemeyer attended the Chapin School here and was graduated from the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She was introduced to society in December, 1930, and is a member of the Colony Club, the Junior League and the Colonial Dames of America. Miss Havemeyer belongs to families that for more than a century have been associated with the sugar industry in this country. She is a greatgreat-granddaughter of Frederick 1 C. Havemeyer, who was junior partner of the sugar refining firm of W. & F. C. Havemeyer, established

established in 1807, and a great-granddaughter of Frederick Christian Havemeyer, founder of the firm of Havemeyer & Townsend, later Havemeyer & Elder, of which her father is now president.

Miss Havemeyer is a granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osborne Havemeyer and the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Dick. She is a niece of Mrs. W. Kingsland Macy, William K. Dick, Adolph M. Dick, Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen and Mrs. James Watson Webb, and the sister of Mrs. Richard S. Perkins. Horace Havemeyer Jr. is her brother.

Dr. Catlin attended Deerfield Academy, was graduated from Yale in 1932 and from th e Harvard Medical School this year. He is a member of the Yale Club of this city and is now an interne at Roosevelt, Hospital.


1937

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All Boxes Sold for Opera to Aid Milk Fund; Junior Committee Helps in Arrangements

Mrs. Allan Ryan Jr., who head the reservations committee, has announced that all of the boxes and many of the seats have been purchased for the performance of "Tristan und Isolde," with Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchoir in the leading roles, Thursday afternoon at the Metropolitan Opera House for the benefit of the Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc. Miss Katherine Blake is aiding the benefit as a member of the junior committee.
Boxholders for the performance include Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse, Mrs. George D. Widener, Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. James Corrigan, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, Mrs. Edward L. Doheny, Mrs. George F. Baker, Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, Mrs. Myron C. Taylor, Mrs. James P. Donahue, Mrs. George Blumenthal, Mrs. Harold E. Talbott, Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, Miss Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, Mrs. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Countess di Frasso and Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann.
Others are Miss Fannie Hurst, Mrs. Bertrand L. Taylor, Mrs. William Boyce Thompson, Mrs. Roland L. Redmond, Lord Duveen, Jeremiah Milbank, Pierre C. Cartier, Dr. John F. Erdmann, Jules S. Bache, Marshall Field, Harrison Williams, Robert L. Clarkson, Elisha Walker, Nathan L. Miller, Joseph E. Widener, William Goadby Loew, Gordon S. Rentschler, Basil O'Donnor, James A. Farley, George MacDonald, William K. Dick, J. Herbert Todd, Walter E. Frew, Harry Payne Bingham, Will H. Hayes, Bernard M. Baruch, Thomas J. White, Parker Corning, Keith Morgan, David K. E. Bruce and Emil Winter. 
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SOCIETY NOTABLES RUSH FOR SHELTER
Find Haven in Enclosed Roof Terrace When Rain Falls at Roosevelt Raceway
The enclosed roof terrace of the main grandstand became the rendezvous for many of the box holders and their guests when the rain drove them from the uncovered sections before the scheduled start of the second running of the Vanderbilt Cup race at the Roosevelt Raceway today.
When the official announcement was made that the race had been postponed, this skyway clubhouse was crowded with notables from the field of society and sports. The bar did a brisk business and the tables were filled with box holders, some of whom had luncheon in picnic fashion from. the light repasts they had brought with them to enjoy al fresco in the boxes during the race.
Many came prepared for inclement weather, especially the women, and when the first soft patter of rain fell upon the open boxes, brightcolored waterproofs made their appearance - red, blue and green. The men in the boxes who wore sports coats and white flannel trousers sought temporary protection under hastily improvised capes made from newspapers.
Motor From Estates
The near-by Meadow Brook Club had its quota of social celebrities from the Westbury section for luncheon, preceding the race, and there were also many luncheon parties at the Garden City Hotel. Many of the box holders motored to the race-way direct from their country estates.
William K. Vanderbilt, the originator of the Vanderbilt Cup race, and Mrs. Vanderbilt were among the notables who sought refuge in the terrace roof clubhouse during the early stages of the rain. Miss Rosemary Warburton and Barclay H. Warburton 3d, Mrs. Vanderbilt's daughter and son by her first marriage, were with them.
Mrs. Vanderbilt wore a white and blue ensemble with a broad-brimmed hat which matched her costume. Mr. Vanderbilt wore a blue flannel sports coat and white flannel trousers. They were joined while on the terrace by Miss Gloria Baker, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Emerson, whose long white coat and hair showed that she had been caugnt in the shower.
Mrs. Stewart Defies Rain
Mr. and Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart were at one of the tables. Mrs. Stewart had defied the rain in a long white coat and brown hat. At a near-by table were young William Dick and his brother, John Henry Dick, who had come to join their mother, Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte. With the two boys were Miss Phebe K. Thorne and her brother, Francis B. Thorne Jr., children of Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Thorne of East Islip.
Mrs. Fiermonte, the former Mrs. Madelaine Force Astor Dick, was among the prominent boxholders.
Miss May Fairchild entertained her box party at luncheon on the terrace roof. They included Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rice of Schenectady, Miss Gay Hagen, George C Norton and Miss Fairchild's nephew, Sherman Mills Fairchild.
William B. Leeds and his bride the former Miss Olive Hamilton of Pittsburgh, who have Box 4A for the race, were at the clubhouse. Public interest was recently centered on Mr. Leeds when his estate at Oyster Bay was sold to a New York attorney at the time the Duke of Windsor was reported as a possible purchaser.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ferguson entertained their party at luncheon. Included in the group were Mrs. George Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Vatcher, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crane, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Walker and Mrs. Louis Scott.
Miss Mary Cloonan was a box and luncheon ho.stess to a group including Mrs. George Cabot, Miss Catherine Cloonan and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keenan of Pittsburgh.
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Hyser of Bronxville had Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Saunders and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Netter as their guests at an impromptu luncheon on the terrace roof during the rain.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was among the notables present. Mr. Whitney is still confined to his country place as the result of being thrown from a horse. With Mrs. Townsend Phillips were her two sons, Thomas Gerry Townsend and Alex Auchmuty Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. Harold c. Richard had their box guests at luncheon on the roof.
Mrs. Dodge Sloane, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Fell, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Edward Schuster, Mr. and Mrs. James v. Forrestal, Count-Lichtenstein and Ernesto Angelo of Milan, Italy. were also seen on the terrace roof.
John Hay Whitney, Edsel B. Ford, Walter P. Chrysler and Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey were among the early arrivals, before the rain set in. 
Among the boxholders who will entertain guests Monday are John Schroeder. John R. Hearst, Mr. and Mrs. 'William A. M. Burden, Gilbert Kahn, Edward B. Twombly, George B. Bourne, Colonel Leroy L. Odell, Rodman Wanamaker, Lucius B. Manning, William Averell Harriman, Generoso Pope, Charles S. Payson, E. L. Cord, George McKesson.
Brown and Hunter S. Marston.










MUSEUM PARTY GIVEN BY F. TRUBEE DAVISONN
Dinner, One in a Series for Natural History Institution, Honors Dr. Sanford
Mr. F. Trubee Davison, president of the American Museum of Natural History, gave a dinner last night at the museum, 15 West Seventy-seventh Street, for Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, who has assisted for many years in expanding the bird collections there. The dinner was one in a series which will be given to stimulate interest in the activities of the museum in connection with the ten-year development program.
The other guests included ... <snip> WILLIAM K. DICK <snip>
























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