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Show The famous Langhorne-Astor match has been postponed indefinitely owing to the recent divorce decision in the Haddock case. The hundreds of cousins who reside here are greatly worked up over the affair from the woman with the tiny feet to those of the other patricians in the case. Time and space prevent an alphabetical list of cousins but the tale of the Langhorne disappointment is told in an eastern special as follows: London, May 1. Reports that Mrs. Nannie Langhorne Shaw and William Waldorf Astor, Jr., . were married last week were unfounded. It is now learned that all preparations had been made for a wedding last Saturday, in the least con. splcuous manner possible, but the divorce decision de-cision of the United States supreme court upset all arrangements. The legality of Mrs. Shaw's divorce may be affected by the decision, so the . . marriage is indefinitely postponed. Her friends say she has not yet been able to get in communication with her former husband, Robert G. Shaw of Boston, and that a considerable time must elapse before steps can be taken to legalize le-galize the divorce and make it possible for Mrs. Shaw to marry Mr. Astor. Mrs. Shaw, famous as one of the "Gibson Girl" beauties, got her divorce in the state of Virginia, where she lived for years after she went home to her father, Cheswald Dabney Langhorne, at Mi-rador, Mi-rador, Albemarle county. The decree was granted grant-ed on a charge of three years' desertion, a statutory statu-tory ground for divorce under the laws of that state. Mrs. Shaw was in Europe at the time the decree was granted. The supreme court, whose decision in the Haddock Had-dock case, which has upset the generally accepted accept-ed validity of many divorces, held that the state of Connecticut has not obtained jurisdiction over the wife, who lived in New York and never appeared ap-peared in the proceedings in Connecticut. Mr. Shaw remarried two days after the Virginia Vir-ginia court granted his wife the divorce. She retains re-tains custody of their child, a boy, 7 years old. Mr. Astor first met Mrs. Shaw last November on a steamship on which they were journeying from New York. Craig Wadsworth second secretary sec-retary of the American embassy in London, introduced intro-duced them. It is said that with Mr. Astor it was a case of love at first sight. He paid her devoted attention on the ship and later in London, and when Mrs. Shaw took a hunting box in Warwickshire Warwick-shire Mr. Astor, never a keen rider, took pains to distinguish himself in the Melton Mowbray hunt in order that Mrs. Shaw, a daring horsewoman, should not surpass him. Their engagement was announced last month. Even then there was a report of possible trouble because of the reluctance of many of the American Ameri-can clergy to pronounce the marriage ceremony for any divorced persons. There was even some talk that Mr. Astor and Mrs. Shaw would go to America and be married in Virginia. |