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Show 5aii aova. - - FORTIETH YEAR, NO. 232. r-- - zz u V) eesOo oil.! vVy-- 7 mm arae 1 joaerus - f - - 3sf s fetse- - J -- -- A, -- t . f The Livingstons and the Spencers Were Inseparable ana ThenMrs. Livingston 4.' Sailed Away With the Wrong. Husband and Kept . Left: New York Society' Moot BeanUfal Blonfln, Mrs. . Louis Livingston, Who Accompanied Major Gary Spencer, Husband of Her Beat Friend, 4 "Si ' I y,Xi 5 'X- m J: - r F r r. Into a French Lor Eiila. s A1 - .i .1 - 1ft r4 4 -- " a 8 '1 tv- ..'!.-- society's handsomest mixed foursome has finally come to the cTid ot the match. The exclusive ins and out of Fifth Avenue was the course over which they played. Romance was the prize they fought for. As in every mixed foursome two persons won out ' while two persons lost- - And like good sportsmen that they are, the two losers, one a husband and the other a .wife, have quietly given up their mates as the price of defeat. Mrs. Gary Spencer is now seeking work to support herself and her small baby while she presses her divorce suit against her husband, who won and eloped with his friend's wifo. Louis Livingston has buried himself on his great Long Island estate "in an effort to drnse out thoughts of his beautiful wife who divorced him 'to join Spencer in Paris exile. And a little more than a year ago the four were so inseparable that society knew them as the "perfect foursome." Back in 1920 one of the social events of thft Spring season was the marriage of Major Gary y, Spencer, son. of the famous Mrs. F. to Adelaide Guidet Buckley, one of the four beautiful Buckley sisters. Spencer had made for himself during the war and had followed up the armistice with a meteoric Jrise in Wall Street While of first rank position in New York society his private fortune was not large and he attacked the money market with the same vim that he had shown in France. At just, about the same time Charlotte Black came east from Chicago and after a brief season ini Newport and the Long Island spas was hailed aw the most beautiful woman in society. She of complexion, light was unusually tall,-fa- ir of eyes and with a mass of hair so golden-brow- n that it held the attention of all comers. Among those who were struck with her beauty was Louis Livingston, who was distinguished as a sportsman and a sprig of a social and financial family tree reaching back into days. He courted the beautiful Chicago gui throughout the long Summer social season, at wewport ana at Southampton, ana it enaea wku their marriage and an assured place in Eastern i society lor unartotte uiacK uvinsrston. .v Louis':UyinjgtQiy'Qllowiiaf family tradition,' '.Tiadlserved his apprenticeship in Wall Street One of kis best friends was Gary Spencer, And th two young financiers both became members of the New Xork Stock Exchange at about the same N EW YORK i' 4 4, it 1 4 - 'if f. L I ' 1 7V -- ' "Livingston also learned the dangers of mixed foursomes.- - But he took his defeat like a sportsman, giving op his wife to his best' friend and adding a substantial, competence to 1 V Mrs. Gary Spencer, Who Lost " Her Husband to Her Best Friend, Mrs. 1 ' -- Louis Livingston,' in Society"- -' Foursome Lore Match. .Above: insure her comfort" Spencer-Hornada- Mrs. Spencer during an evening's entertain-- . ment Propinquity began to sap the platonic base on which the friendship of the foursome . was tuilt One- - evening there was a dinner party at jwfche Livingston home at No. 9 East Fifty seventh Street. Spirits were high and th merry. Mrs." Livingston iana fuests grew as had increasingly becomes theit custom, paired off for the evening. They danced often together, but during several dances strolled about the commodious rooms together, and for a time slipped up onto the w , roof to admire the moon. "Following this party the first rift appeared. Fierce words passed between Mr. and Mrs. Span cer. As time went on the situation became more strained. A separation between the two was first discussed and then drawn up.: But it was never signed, as Mr. Spencer slipped of f to Europe. Livingston also learned of the dangers of f mixed foursomes. Early in the Summer a friend came to him out on his Southampton estate and . . . . ". .? : Louis, this condition of affairs is not fair to Let mo tell you a few things." you. ' Livingston then learned with a shock of the state of his household. But he was a sportsman and loved his beautiful wife. He also cared deeply e friend. He told his informer; for his ' ; .time. "Never, mind. Charlotte and 1 have been mar--' It was inevitable that the two young wives " ried happily for four years. I will carry out my bargain. should meet, moving as they did in the same ' And carry out his bargain kouis Livingston social circles. They became the closest of friends. did. He permitted his wife to leave for Reno r More and more the two couples were seen and sue him for a divorce. He made a handAll four were mutually attractive to one some money settlement on her and permitted another and at last so inseparable had they beher to take title to certain property that come that society smiled itsomment and blessing. he-- had settled on her. it was "Gary" During the season of 1923-2- 4 " Aieanwmie Mrs. spencer naa given and "Louis" downtown and at the Racquet and birth to a beautiful child. Her Tennis Club. The two men nearly always lunched husband returned ' from Europe together, exchanging hits of market gossip or and-fa time it appeared as business advice. When the market closed for the though the mixed foursome . day they generally finished up the afternoon to- might be patched up. But a , gether on the golf links, the tennis courts or at Deidere after little their clubs. Marie Spencer was born, Mrs. In the same way it was "Adelaide" and Livingston secured her divorce. "Charlotte" in one or the other's boudoir, on J Shortly, afterwards Major Gary their morning shopping trips or their lunches at Sper.cer sold his seat on the the smart hotels. The two young matrons were Stock Exchange. And the first hardly ever a day apart, and their visiting lists thing society knew about the fin--ibeing much the same, the afternoons were genof the friendship was the reI. erally spent in a common round of teas, matinees port that Spencer arid Mrs. Livand bridge. tohad sailed for Europe ingston In the evenings the two couples would gather gether on the steamship Julius at the handsome Livingston or Spencer homes Caesar. for dinner and bridge if, which was rare, they According to'Mrs. "Spencer's ; had- no common social engagement In fact, sosuit for divorce, the two exile ciety became so accustomed to this friendship from society have been living on) that It made a point of either asking both couples Continent together ever since. - to a function or neither. It also was known .. the For a time they are said to have throughout the Four Hundred that any social visited Italy. Then came a little slight to one of the two women would bring an , at No. 8 Rue du Pare attack, from both, 'just as surely as it became . ' apartment Monceau in Paris. Recently known in "the Street" that the financial powers r purchased a large farm of th two men could ba counted on as one in an at Orne, Normandy,Cwhere he is said to emergency. be making plans to spend the rest of his t- Weeks, months and years went by with these two couples working and playing together. Grad- - : ually all formalities were dropped between the Right: Scene Near Love Nest Farm at i men and women. The couplae took to pairing of. Orne, Normandy, the Retreat of Major i Spencer and Mrs. Livingston,-- ' Livingston and Gary Spencer and Mrs. Louis Livingston, - . J one-tim- - .' . . life breeding horses. For a time everyhued thing was rosyoeauti-ful for the most New woman in York society and the young financier as they wandered about Europe 'together. money, Theyhadhad romance and they thev Were together with none of the restrictions that had hampered them in New York. There remained but One drawback to their complete happiness. They convenwere unable to be married and tional society together. Louis Livingston' had heen willing to give up his wife to his best friend. He had even added a comfortable competence to insure her comfort. But . Mrs. Spencer refused all talk of divorce. She was a devout Roman Catholic and no action was taken toward freeing her husband so that he ' might marry her best friend, Such at least were her feelings for more than a year. Perhaps in the back of her mind was always the hope that Spencer would return to his child and its mother. But recently she paid a. visit to Paris. There she met her husband, heard - er s his plea for freedomi-an- d gathered the. necessary proof for a divorce action. Upon her return she filed . . . ' suit charging her former .host friend with eloping with her husband. As Major Spencer has never, returned to' this country she received permit ' sion to serve her husband by publi v m-- cation. Down on their farm in '.1 k Normandy, two members of the.1 once ... famo rhave found' happi;' m. .'Majo. Mrs. CharGary- Spencer and rtd lotte Black Livingston plan to be married as soon as his di- S v VftWi la fiiniptp(i. Hut ftac.k in New- York the other members of society's twin couples have found only tn ag- edy. Louis Uvmgston plods throueh his work in Wall . Street piling, up dollars with- ...out aim. he beautiful woman he still lovos and on whom hs once delighted to spend the thousands he won is no longer his. With hunched shoulders and graying hair he can only dream of the days Defore she left him, ? 'J j V?- r--J- 7vi;fwri ,Jif s - t - ; - li ' , - . 1 .i i A A. ' . - vt yxrvx U " . ,. , '! , ' . v 'f', H v v. 1 . - - M MP- . Vi r '7 ; 1 or few-mont- 1OIU8 sh . Her .' -- ''h i ? rs ,'vr w 1 iime ot . the ji rriage to One of . new lonks Richest Brokers. IK for his friend. - For a time society rumored merely planned to reshuffle But the report quickly died. evon the !o'e Games, game, are. illogical. Once in the rough and it is hard for the losers to get back on the fairway. Or at least so the rich bujt lonely Mr. Livingston has found. , For Mrs. Spencer also there is little happl- ness- Rmittances from hor husban-- are few and far between. She has their child to rear. She also plans to accept a job- that has bean offered her, partly to "eke out hor income and partly, perhaps, to aid her hi forgetting the happy days wheif the now' famous foursom played its match over the course of society. that nropiaquity the foursome. , - Major-Spence- . - . i - -- Ntmpwr Pmtttf Service. 1936. 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