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Show THE "SUNDAY JIEEALD, SUNDAY. MARCH 14. 1926. J- PAGE SIX 1 3 3 t: trig At Left? Mrs. Cornellut Vanderbilt, Jr, Wife f the Young Publisher Whoa J7 cr: How Sarcastic Comments From Society for Criticizing the . Berlin-Macka- Mitch y Hu lloing Caused Excitement-iNeV" TorkTITuur Himdreo. i ' v : X t ' Mrs.-Corneliw 'rrizMtheiGrdddal Withdrawal of - 'nttM - I Other Hostesses v n. 7 of the Family V Have Set the Ted At Leftr Mre, William H. Vanderbilt, Formerly Misr Emily Daviea, the Last , ' Banking Member of the Eight Vanderbilt fiostessee of the Present - Social Era. " V Cups Rattling.; - -- ,v ? . -- r A r- - '- - r- - -- - 'tin. ,' ft 'a. r - X ir J H rv By MRS. JOHN DALE VAN ALLEN... Cornel SARCASTICriticjBmJay of New..- A: ZZZ. the York society "ha teacups Tattling all up and 4owft-Ear- lt at Palm Beach and wherever else the system of society extends.- - In .a editorial of his Miami newspaper, Mr. .1 - I ili h" i Avenue, -- Arist-ocrat, - New York. With innate flare for society and always half a sea- .... son in advance of the ruling fashions it seemed for a time as though the Vanderbilt social grandeurs might be centered on this branch of the Cornelius Vanderbilt line. vhe WM also the best looking an" rulers of New York ciety but who now has practically dropped out of Mayf air activities. This may have been due to one 61 two reasons. Mrs. WiIHnm K . ' was one of the outstanding .events, of" the .Winter sea-- ,. eon.- While Mrs. William K. Van- derbilt 2nd has played the so x cial part traditional to the' Vanderbilt name she has at - ' times lacked the brutal exclu- , siveness necessary for supreme if social success. Her friends are 'y so many that their demands may nave, 10 a certain exieni, edged her out of the most exclusive circles. Her cousin by marriage, the former Gloria Morgan and present Mrs- Reginald Ct Vanderbilt badtt fair at one time to . Paul Rutherford Hatch Nicholn, have had to do 5 '3 f v - j ziuntebses. uuuuruiib u-- i -. ih- ' al . thrown this beautiful woman into mourn "tilt has ana hammering at the social barriers. ' These new lorced her retirement from the social invaders had fort'jnos of, twentieth century nAf: ing lists. If she now remarries she will no longer nitude. They pitted tens of millions of dodars be a Vanderbilt If she decides to return to the .oukH against every one that the , Vanderbilts social r after her period of mourninp she throw into the social struggle- will probably find that, with the present highly The Vanderbilts never had the cent'srirs cf social st&ndin? held competitive social system, out of sight neans the old Dutch families. out of mind. As their wealth becsm divided they had recourse Another cousin by marriage is Mrs. William to watering their blue blood by raminp jeme of H. Vanderbilt, the last of the eight Mrs.' Vanthe most promisinfr end weslthy of tne ovst 'dnr-int- o derbilts of the present social era. At the present the cliarmed..Vanderbilt circle Ihrouah A- ii time she seems the most likely candidate for riage. Also most of - tha famous ' Vanuentft the post of social dictator-r-i- f she should care mansions on Fifth Avenue, once scenes of New to assume the responsibilities. Before her mar-- " York's greatest social triumphs, have been sold . .off. one by one. riage to the eldest son of the late'Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. she was Emily O'Neill Davjes and Vhher any or all of. Jiass reasons, afiectcd, in. the social world is mount the social' throne of - so has the backing of both wealth and family, , "the Vanderbilt a queition much argued over the teacuDS just But it is questionable whether she will ever reach for the crown onee held by her husband's - now. A family that lias played dominating part in society for nearlv nan a cnturymfly have relations. Born within the charmed circle she have- - ibecome "somewhat disgn?t(withhecoiTTe"B:1ittle bored with the affair and feel that it is about timo they withdrew altogether as the. Ur again, lasmont in so--' present-da- y society. New' else In and" as change everything ciety t Or atfttnth?re. ia alw.tys the chance" that after "York's Four Hundred may havp become! a little fifty yenra of rule tbe Vixnderbiits have for.weary of always following tha lead of a, Mrs. gotten the tricks of scciety warfare and at the Vanderbilt saiiM tnno -- ero iio. praud to- - take-- second place Back in the. eighties, Mrs. Cornelius VanderAt any rate Mr. Vanderbilt's to anyone else bilt, the former Alice Gwynnefc wrested the social present-day of criticism society has brought sharp I '.::.. ': of the entire world the fact that 4. the to attention Grace Wibm Betow, Left to Blghtt: Aire., the eight present mistressing Vanderbilts-- are Vaaderbilt,' Wife of Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, for one reason .or another, giving society what from Social Who, Through Illness, Hns Retired is sometimes known in. the Vemacular &4 the, K. William W. Mrs.. and Activity; Mrs. Frederick . high-hr 2nd. , Vanderbilt, . . mr vi. tut; so-ci- aj ' Van. derbilt incurred throueh the recent somewhat widely published conduct of her two dauph- ters by a former .marriai e, Lady and Dukes Mrs. Barbara much of New Yoi'V - Ci'V Mitch ftn'tocniry. bv hr-oeiwhit fortnmif riod yh acirnnn Wealth. unlimited For twenty yeurs she ruled New York society, bo'.h tha' okl Dutch fnmHins ii.o.UiiT lwt:iti the 'and social newcomers. tradition ec'mkinj4 v.'itti' years by sheer force-o.the unusual sociul activity oJrhe mambers, t.vs o ma::;tai.. r.t Vanderbilt farraiy mriuifred ascendency in fashionable New Yo-kBut eventually the millions of Uicold Omimo r dore, who was once a ferryman; became stlit among' a host of deecerdants. The Vanderbilt wealth lost sonvthinarof its prestige as cil. sttd leadership ; that he-re- a Snapped on the Tennis Court at Hollywood, CaL, Afte a Game with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fifty-sevent- IIIlV " Society V. Suddenly Ciiangtid to a Lite llctiwM nt by the Traric ltc'-l- i of Her IIiiKband.' "OfPukluiliec ' she has retired to Europe with "her daughter, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. - Mrs.- - Cornelius Vander-bilt, who is the mother of the young publisher, has been forced to retire from the social season because of serious Illness. While she is the least wealthy of the Mrs. Vanderbilts, she seemed at one time the most likely to carry on traditions of social prestige. She was the daughter of the late Richard T. Wilson-anis related by marriage to both the Astor and the Goelet" families. While for years she figured prominently in society she generally ' ' Younir 111.1.. decorations t At Rltrht: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. the Wealthy " : nervous leading Vander-- To begin with, there is the dowager, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grandmother, of the young She is now at an advanced age newspaperman. and takes only the most casual interest in the social parade. .In fact she goes to the greatest lengths to keep her doings out of the public print. Perhaps for that reason she has abandoned every social affair except those so. exclusive that only the inner ring oi society ever bears of their occurrence. She oas given up her great mansion at Fifth h Avenue nd street, an abode that formed the setting ox her social triumphs since the .. eighties. - The magnificent doorway, once known as the portal of American society! will To re soon be m the hands of the wreckers. place her mansion she has purchased the mors secluded home of Mrs. George J. Gould and while IVfiice. Tfte TYhosp l?:Trr of Lva.-n -- tain persons who took it ...upon . .themselves to snub the former Ellin Mackay for her marriage to Irving. Berlin. He further laid down the law that the foundation of all society is wealth re--, gardless of the veneer of gentility. According to him, the smart set's snobbishness is onla disguise for the sweat of the male member of the jfamily who lias made its fortune. In his case it was Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt Society's interest in Mr. Vanilerbilt's editorial But most for its own sake was considerable. of the excitement was due to the thought that Mr. Vanderbilt, if not actually a designated spokesman for the rest .of his family, is at least echoinir their general sentiments.AV For, accordI i Tl A.. r- ' L, ... -: ''f . - '- - rta-idin- : if t v ..,.. -- 'J .. -., . . ' ; preferred the glitter and traditions of the Euro- pean courts. .Before her recent illness she had neglected New. York for. the older tind more per-- - " Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., for Number of ' Years Gracious and Beautiful Leader of New York's Social Set, Who Now Has Abandoned Society to Travel and Look After Her Paris Shop in Which She la Shown ia the Above Picture. Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, the sister-in-laof the dowager. Mrs. Vanderbilt Is by far the wealthiest bearer of the famous name. Be- .fore her marriage, as Louise Anthony, she occupied a social p'dition approximating that of her " , r 'i . with the tearing down of the elaborate- social husband's famiy. Whn Fred Vanderbilt capstructure that their mother had built up. was considered, tured her heat and her hand it , Or- perhaps she simply became bored with the " even the Vanderbilts of that by prasent-dasociety and more interested in he period "a step in the right direction." various charitable ventures. At any rate, she But now Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt is known has withdrawn from Fifth Avenue, moving to throughout the length and breadth of New York of Avenue A, where she has erected " . society as Aunt" Lulu." Year? ago she. decided a Colonial brick house at Number One Sutton , to give up the struggle for social homage, .ignorPlace on the site of a former tenement house. ing' both what was offered and what might bev Here she stays during her occasional visits to won with a etrupgle. , She has left it to the this country Most of her time Is spent in Eu-younger Vanderbilts to either play the part that roiie. where the biziare actions of her daughters" he once "Occupied or follow ner example and are-leswell known, .Also her- . . . retirci gracefully health has been tone too goed. She now sppnds practically all of her time ' Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's Eight: The Dowsgtr, either at Bar Harbor or at her palatial estate Mother of the ' is Mrs. Wil-- - -. etepdaughter-in-laat Hudson, entertaining rarely Ham Vanderbilt Brood, Mrs. 2nd. She Vanderbilt, and choosing her intimates for the most -- was born Cornelias Vanderbil- tVirginia Fair, daugh- front the older generation of society which parti still ter of the late millionaire James "v Sr, Who Has Long ' venerates the Vanderbilt name. Fair and sister of Mrs. Hermann Since Deserted the' Frederick Vanderbilt's brother, William K. " :. Oelnchs. It was the Brilliant Social Affairs marriageVanderbilt, married for the second time a very of her daughter Consuelo Vanof New York, Newport beautiful woman who for years was one of the na a Ira iSeach. uuut to ari iu. i . dixuui uia. - -- iff" 4 y . s - - . w. e. . f mm |