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Show I Keeping Divorced Couple From Meeting 1 By Margaret Watts De Pryrtrr Iisy Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, July 30. Now that there is a possibility of much embarrass-niout embarrass-niout in the meeting of Colonel John Jacob Astor and his divorced wife, Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, in Newport, soiety peoplo arc. taking great pairis in mak-mg mak-mg up their guest lists for next mouth so that both may not bo invited to tho samo functions. It requires a deal of trouble in society keeping divorced husbands hus-bands and wives apart for almost every one who is anybody is divorced. Sometimes Some-times it is very hard to "keep track of their names, they marry so often. According to the information which is now at hand, Mrs. Astor has definitely decided to return from abroad next month to spend a short time- at New-. New-. m. with her brother, J. R. Barton uillmg, at Ins villa there. "When Mrs. Astor went abroad several months a"o it was reported thai she would make Her permanent homo in England, and weight was added to this rumor by the fact that sho took a house in London shortly after reaching there. A chango must have come over tho beautiful Mrs. Astor lately, for it was only two or three weeks ago that the cable announced an-nounced that she was getting homesick and tired of hor life abroad. She was " j rtmu"K er menus again arid especially desirous of spending spend-ing part of the summer at Newport, nrhero her former husband and son inceiit, are spending the summer at Beechwood If both Mrs. Astor and the colonel spend August at Newport and go m for entertaining on a large scale, prominent members of tho villa colony will bo placed in an embarrassing embarrass-ing position. Her serono highness, Princess Lwoff Parlaghy, who came to America twelve monfhs ago with a couple of million gold ducats to spend, sailed away heartbroken heartbrok-en because sho had only gotten rid of a mere trifle of $300,000. But cheer up! She is coming back in tho fall nnd sho is. determined to spend a million next winter. She is going to try very hard. As a first step in that direction sho has loused the Imperial suito in the Plaza non0r m,cil sh,c wi" Pa-V "Pwards of !r60,000. (This doesn't include meals nor tips; the last named being reckoned in close proximity to another $60,000.) riio princess owns castles in every country coun-try in Europe and sho is so wealthy that she has several secretaries who do nothing but count her money. It is estimated es-timated that her income is nearlv as great as that of J. P. Morgan. Will Go to Newport. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Rockefeller and Mr. and Mrs. Percy A. Rockefeller will fio later in the season to stay with James Stillman at his Newport cottage. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rockefeller arc 111 the Adirondacks, the former having returned re-turned during the week from a fishing trip in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. William Rockofeller are for the summer at Bay Pond. " A second wedding m the Fish family will be that of Miss Rosalind Fish and John Cutler of Brookline. Mass.. to take place on October 8 at the Fish homestead home-stead at Garrisons, N. Y. Mish Janet iMsh. an elder sister of tho bride, is now in Europe attending to details of the trousseau. The bride-to-be is a daughter daugh-ter of Hamilton Fish. When Paul Rainey, the rich young sportsman and- chibmau, comes ' back from his hunting trip in Labrador, the u thin" the reporters will ask him wrll bo about his proposed engagement to Eleanor Scars of Boston. Miss Sears breaks into tho newspapers about once a week with some freak doing. She goes m for1 athletics and besides excelling in running, walking, golf, tennis, polo, horse racing, swimming and other mild forms of recreation. Sho is always photographed in froakish garb. Sho af-f af-f opts men's clothing and delights in shocking the Back Bay section .of Boston Bos-ton with her unique ideas. While she was 111 California last winter she at-' at-' tempted a, marathon walk on a wager from Biirhngame to Del Monte Rai-uev's Rai-uev's family hails from Cleveland, uino, whero it mado many, many millions mil-lions out of eonl and coke,' Mr. Rainey is a professional sportsman. He coaches, hunts, plays golf and runs his stable, which takes up about all his time. Ho recently sailed for the arctic regions on the ship Bocthic with Harry Whitney, Whit-ney, and others for a hunting and exploring ex-ploring trim Is Groat Spender. Rainey is known ns tho "groat American Ameri-can spender' ' from tho prodigal way ho distributes the mcomo of his fortune which is said to total $30,000,000. He is said to have an income of $1,500,000 yearly and to havc spent $1,000 000 last year. Miss Scars in known as a daring horsewoman, swimmer walker and tennis champion, and expert nutoist, with a penchant for speeding. She onco tnod to play pony polo in trousers riding rid-ing astride, but this was too much for the male players. Her engagement to uamey is said to havc been mado the day he sailed for tho Arctic. Again in Limelight. Young Jay Gould, son of George Gould, comes into the matrimonial lime- light through dispatches, stating that he is engaged to Beatrice Blanche Bru-ner Bru-ner Godfrey, a beautiful divorcee and member of Anna Held's "Miss Innocence" Inno-cence" company. Mrs. A. Bruncr, mother of the young woman, makes the announcement! of the engagement at Davenport. Young Mr. Gould is in Lurope, as aro his father and tho remainder re-mainder of the family. As Beatrice an Bruncr. the young woman was. formerly a Davenport. Iowa, belle, and much sought by tho eligible young men or that place. Sho had a talent for music and for the stage, and putting aside all thoughts of marriage went to Boston to take vocal study at the Conservatory of Music. Her beauty and her ability in amateur productions soon brought her notice, and she became be-came as much sought after as she had beon at homo. She was wooed by Arthur A. Godfrey, a Back Bay millionaire of Boston, and tho romantic marriage in which they figured added to her fame. Uhoro was considerable parental opposition oppo-sition to the match, and this later ro suited in a' separation and divorce. It was after sho became disentangled from her matrimonial alliance that she went on the professional stage and appeared in musical comedy. According to tho girl's mother sho is now in T.nnrinn playing in a "Miss Innocence" company, com-pany, and young Gould is- supposed also to bo in the British metropolis. Brief Mention. ; Newport is looking with much interest inter-est towards tho national tennis tournament tourna-ment which will open the middle of next month. On the evening of August Aug-ust HI a great dinner will be given fu the Casino for the players. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has sent word that sho will not open the Fish residence resi-dence at Newport this summer. Last summer Mr. and Mrs. Fish entertained royally there. Tho polo season at Naragansett Pier opened this week. A great many ponies havo arrived there. Mr. and Mr. Clarence Mackav will not return t"o this country from Europe until Septombor. Mrs. E. H. Harriman has bought a large tract of land near Oyster Bay, L. I. Tho property is about eighty acres in area, and is between Svosse and Cold Spring Harbor. John p. Archbold, the Standard Oil millionaire, is having, one of the finest wmter homes in the south built for his family near Thomasville, Ga. Tho residence resi-dence will overlook, the Ochlocknce river and will bo a veritable palace when completed. Oh, no, that young 'chap with the bulging cap and the thick black growth of beard is not Nat Willis. Ho is Kingdon Gould, son of George J, Gould, Kingdon is sporting the finest beard iu society. Just: now tie is on a .yachting crniso with his father somewhere in liiiropean waters beard and all. |