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Show Wedding in High Life Is "Postponed" f P HE marriage of Miss Nancy B tloyt, the twenty-year-old fa daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, solicitor general under the Taft administration, to Lieut. F. Wiseman-Clarke, twenty-three, R. N., has been indefinitely postponed. According Ac-cording to a statement issued by Mrs. Hoyt. the plans for the wedding were canceled because of the sudden and serious illness of her daughter. It Is understood, however, that the engagement engage-ment is broken. Lieutenant Wiseman-Clarke and his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wiseman-Clarke, who arrived for the wedding, returned to England. The matrimonial troubles of Miss Hoyt's sister, Mrs. Horace Wylle, who has been twice divorced and whose first husband, Philip Hichborn, committed commit-ted suicide, are rumored to be the real cause of the breaking off of the marriage. mar-riage. The facts, it is said, were previously unknown to the young man's family, who were greatly shocked. Mrs, Hoyt was so seriously offended that she at once terminated the engagement. News of the canceling of the marriage mar-riage shocked Washington society. Dinners and dances In honor of the bridal party had been given every evening eve-ning for a week, the concluding festivity festiv-ity being the dinner-dance given by Senator and Mrs. James W. Wads-worth, Wads-worth, Jr., whose daughter, Evelyn, was to have been one of Miss Hoyt's bridesmaids. Elinor Hoyt, It will be remembered, first married Philip Hichborn, son of the late Admiral Hichborn, leaving him and their infant son nearly fifteen years ago to elope with Horace Wylle, a man nearly twenty years her senior, married and the father of four children. chil-dren. Within a year Mr. Wylle and Mrs. Hichborn returned and left together a few months later, Mr. Wylle in the interval having adjusted his business affairs and settled nearly all his property prop-erty on his wife. About a year later Philip Hichborn shot himself. Shortly afterward Mrs. Wylle divorced her husband, who married mar-ried Mrs. Hichborn with the least possible pos-sible delay. For the last few years Mrs. Wylle has devoted herself to writing and has become widely known as a poet. Recently Re-cently it was reported that she was about to marry William Rose Benet, who denied it. |