| Show I 4 q Why She has So Deliberate About Her New Love Affair and How Mr Robertson Finally Succeeded J t r Herr t in Passing Her Hers s Whether n fancy dress or ora Searching F a conora F n y costume the y r t r f former r Mrs f tl ests An B Ange-B e- e eB B Duke Dukek e r r fi k always makes a l 1 G a charming a and n d a v y n 0 y yv v l lai ai aia a a a i ii picture i Q nc ao 1 t x H rk k Yee a X x R J Bp ii terry s ri l t tl v p i Y rh f e c A 1 4 S a v c b i J J a b ar arfi fi r 4 r yh GP a f f 1 r wi r ri p py y t s 4 r x L s t 4 t b i l t a t tn it n rn 4 w a r aI w r rD D r C k aa 1 d S s i t r e 1 i iw it T t a w t of ri 1 F Frn rn V w 1 za x xi i a wa waTi Ti Tin y r n Y ir r t l lF rd i r cY t 9 F 3 C Ct II a atH w a tH r 4 r inn I l lt y to d J A t fi r pair t a t tY Y use S ry R q Pa t r g es i r rr k 4 fH t try ry wv v vt rv r a l t r w W ri rix x Mi Mit Miu t y u v t b p i ia a r v t r r q 1 vC 4 r h 7 Ir 4 I ee t tea 3 d 4 s r d a Ik r 1 r 4 1 t r r rv L ai i i P Ll n tr Art aE aEa a f x i k r w r Zy t The Biddle heiress as matron of honor hono at the marriage of her first husbands husband's sister to her brother An Anthony thony J Drexel Biddle jr ACK in 1914 when CordelIa Cordelia Biddler J BACK da daughter of the wealthy and anda a socially prominent Anthony J Drexel Dreel Biddies of Philadelphia and Angler Angier B D Duke the immensely rich young tobacco prince fell fel in m lose lo jazz Jau was just dust coming into its own o And the romance of this thib son and daughter of two o of Americas America's most prominent famIlies was as liS full of zip as the syn syncopated rhythms to i 1 i which their th ir lr feet kept time the night they first found themselves irresistibly dral drawn n to each other It was as their friends and the lovers themselves admitted from start to a jazzy jany a romance romance a romance as from the ordinary run of society love affairs as the modern fox foxtrot foxtrot foxtrot trot is from the old fashioned waltz Vcr Very fitting it seemed that it should be so jazzy foras for as somebody has bas said jazz is the spirit of youth Both Cor Cor- Cordella Cor- Cor Cordelia Cordelia delia della Biddle BiddIe and AngIer Angler Duke were ere ex- ex ex ox extraordinarily youthful typical youthful typical representatives representatives of that younger generation v which took advantage of the war to kick over all sorts sorta of conventions and make their elders think they were headed straight for the eternal bow bow- bow w Cordelia Biddle BiddIe was a beWItchingly sweet sixteen when ben she looked Into Angler Angier Dukes Duke's eyes and felt her lIttle heart thrilled as it never had hd been be- be before before be before fore The tobacco prince was about a dozen years older but in youthful zest for nil all tho the fun life has to gh gi c e he hemore hemore more than atoned for tor his Ius excess of ears He seemed little more than a school schoolboy schoolboy schoolboy boy and she was actually a school girl hen they became infatuated In fact theIr youth was the only obstacle which their swiftly moving romance en- en encountered encountered en encountered countered at the start The parents of both thought they would better walt wait until they were a few years older they thought of marriage But jazz is not easily swerved from Its appointed course The champions of the older forms of music may denounce ItS eccentricities and ridicule what hat they call its vulgarities and barbarisms all they please but still the tho drums continuo thumping and the trombones blaring in inan inan an ever increasing rhythmic spree Just so It was with the Duko Biddle Biddle Duke romance The more moro their families pro pro- protested protested protested tested that they ought to keep keip their love lovo lovein air 11 leash for a II few sears ears longer the more determined the sweethearts were o 0 rush their romantic plans to a speedy completion Indeed they did not even want to delay their marriage long enough for the formalities of a big church wedding to bo be arranged Rather Bather than wait alt they v would have havo been quite content to bo be by an alderman or a justice of the tho peace or to have the ceremony per per- performed performed performed formed by a clergyman in some somo obscuro country parsonage S it Tj a J F y N 9 a rZ V 5 r J y i io J o t ta f a t 7 1 k f I 1 1 rt r i Z I aM W Wt th f W t J i fit a Hr 1 0 t s Y s Y a J 4 t s i t M 7 t Y Y n N r cwt i id l r ar rss i g t t Y it 1 tt t aC b x Vif t w g i t 1 dr 0 frt no y r l J ar v f A w C w i r 11 rya jJ v f p i 1 r x t i NJ I 11 Wt a C fi t 1 1 1 1 1 51 K h hj j iJ td i g n na 4 v h Lt y arvy ta 1 1 1 a i r sf x xyr yr d w f r i l 1 lf 6 v A t 4 t ti i r rM M L c k e t 4 tj t frt t t fi J t a a yr e j U l ivr Y n T HM 1 v vl 4 l J d l lt Y p 4 11 I It S rr t ym a r iJ tt a Ii t rd t hr Yi 4 t i A k a lt i h ri ris k t i 3 r o ot A ij r vilt a AtI Mt r t i 1 1 ff P v t x- x f tv vei veiS p vZ r a s r R Jio 1 fJ S 7 f t F Fri f 4 I f A ja 5 rat h s y air sa a it 1 i rOtt b J 1 1 t S 1 x at L r r s Aft Yr A AJi L d tt 1 ti i Ji f fi u t t Jt Jt iS i'S v vy vt vA t y q B A taT Th The former i 1 Mrs I Cordelia 7 Biddle Dake who w-who who after long andyy and N 4 r careful consideration on decided to take another try at matrimony by becoming t Mrs Thomas Markoe l Robertson At last the t Biddle BiddIe and Duke families had to throw aside aide their objections and get into step with Ith the S swift moving jazz of the young peoples people's romance Only one thing they insisted on and this I was as that the lovers ha hale haie e patience enough to walt wait for tor s II wedding bedding befitting their wealth and social position Cordelia's family and Anglers Angler's too devoted themselves to plans for the wedding with Ith amazing energy and clie disregard hs regard of expense It was such II a wedding as American society had never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen before and probably will III not soon bee again More than twelve t hundred guests Journeyed from New York Pittsburgh and other cities to attend th tha ceremony In Episcopal Church Phila Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia A little army of police had bad hard hald work to hold in check the that thronged about the church to catch a glimpse of the bridal pan pall and theIr hundreds of richand rich and fashionable friends The wedding gifts broke all records for number and costly magnificence No daughter of a king long or emperor could have bave been more lavishly showered than Cordelia Biddle BiddIe Mr and Mrs Sirs Benjamin N Duke the tho parents of the bridegroom presented her with a II diamond necklace valued at Her gift from the bridegroom was a 2000 necklace of exquIsitely matched pearls Mr and Mrs Biddle BiddIe were said to toha ha have e presented their daughter witha with a bank account large enough to make her independent for as life life as If it that were necessary when she was marrying a man who had in his sus own right and was heir to morel When it was all oset OHl and the newly newly- I I fry rJ r r J 6 weds cds were WIe started on their honeymoon ever everybody body IS I'S delighted with this thib Jazzy romance and the promise 11 It t gave of straight on to a lifetime of bliss and harmony Of course a girl gul of bJ ely seventeen bas as pretty young to be but then Cordelia Duke was as a Ic el headed person son more mature of mind than her years ealS would indicate and her husband was as enough older to keep her little feet in m check in nn case the thc yr c e er r should stal start t getting ahead of the music And what hat could possibly go wrong wrong wrong- with a marriage where the bride and groom were ere so tremendously in rn lose lo 10 e 1 But something did go wrong Hong and aud with appall ng quickness As hUb his been said jazz IS s exceedingly hard to swerve e from rom its appo appointed course buthen but when hen it decides to quit It does docs so with Ith little or no warning Theres There's just a wilder blare of the WInd instruments and a louder thump of the drums and then silence then silence And this was quite the v way ay the DuKe jazzy romance reached Its ita disconcerting endAll endAll end endAll All ofa of a sudden it was noticed that the bride and her husband were not moving together with their old time old harmony that with every measure theIr once perfectly mated feet were getting more and more out of step Anxious friends rushed up to beat time for them and restore the tho rhythm that had been so Id idyllic in their courtship days but It lt was no use The jarz of love was over for Cor Cor- CordelIa delia Biddle BiddIe Duke and her husband They ceased dancing altogether and fled from the tho protection of each others other's each arms arms each in a different direction z Yr t tYr rg iu vy P F A a aF AY ARr Y Rr There wee were y R all soils of t nf guesses as to 1 y the the real cause of the Vy zet rk t trouble ti cubic but to this day society 13 is not sure last j hS which was the right one n wf one fi S So Some o m e of anglers angler's F friends that I i his school girl bride i was inordinately and absurdly jealous Some me i J of her friends declared j j that she hd good rea- rea reaf f for her jealousy inthe in j j the attention the to s- s bacco prince was pay pay- paying tl v t d ing to some attractive t toung t owns oung women of the he stage Still others hadt had b ya a variety of other explanations ex- ex explanations st to offer f Whatever the real j d ic a u s q of ther the K r young couples couple's jt v differences they r JO proved irreconcilable T Three h r e a ayears years after their wedding they separated separated and in 1921 Mrs Duke Lucky Mr Rob obtained a di- di divorce divorce di divorce vorce in Philadelphia The grounds on which the divorce was granted cro never revealed Freed from her het he Ausband Mrs Duke naturally became the magnet magret which drew the interest of countless marriage marriage- marriageable marriageable able millionaires millionaires as well as many others who hope some some day to be worth millions if e CT has fashionable socIety had a richer love prize t ti offer than was presented in her her-e hei hel vS nUlly pretty Im- Im Immensely l im-l j ti 1 wealthy I wonderfully mS h 1 C b tn 1 e ln in e eCI e CI CIVay ery Vay way M i P N In spite of the 14 W fact t that she hid hidA r been married and ond A W- W Wy y n and 1 was as the mother of ol t o t 0 children she still WES 5 only a little more than thun twenty years old and everybody thought she looked quite as de- de de dc girlish as S she had on her wedding day But if any of the numerous men v who ho cast desirous eyes atthe att atthe at t the pretty oung dl aroused any interest in m her heart she gave for a long tune time no sign that society could detect The gossips said she had con con- con confided to her intimates how Ilow deeply she regretted the jazzy ja of her first fust ro- ro romance romance ro romance mance She felt that it oI J S have been far better if f she had follo ed her family's aJ Ice and waited alted until she was 35 older before giving gl her heart away avay She was as said to be deter deter- determined determined mined to goery go very sery slowly about entering upon a second romance ro- ro ro nance mance lIance As a 1 result of her first iB firsti-iB disillusionment she would Cn ena en- en a tore turc upon a second love affair only after the most painfully careful deliberation Perhaps she would ne cr marry again again- again she he was not at all sure that she sho wanted to For more than five sears ears eara after her parting rom from ar Duke Duko she remained a very demure demuro and retiring grass widow discouragingly un- un unattainable un unattainable attainable by the many men who would have been delighted to base ha ha c her receive attentions Not Vot until late last summer shortly after ill fated Angler Angier B Duke had fallen from a boat in Long Island Sound and been drowned was WIlS there any In- In Indication indication in indication that she was as about to open her 1 heart to a new romance The man nian who began to be seer seen with v Ith Sirs Ills Duke so much as to excite com com- comment comment ment melt ment was Thomas Thomos Markoe Robertson a Yale gra graduate a successful architect and a member of several prominent i New York club clubs clubs- Th's Th-s made society gasp for it had for some time been supposed that Mr R Robertson bert on vas was in the midst of an ardent romance with Miss Grace Glace Moore a v well ell known prima pruna donna of musical comedy and that the they here ere likely to be married almost any ony da day But Mi Mr Robertson's interest in MIss Moore apparently faded 11 away ay the m- m in instant stant he saw a II chance of winning Mrs Duke and the time latter seemed to ha have 0 no objection whatever whatever to depriving the stage queen ofa of a fiance pro pro Mr Robertson could convince her that he was as the man she ought to marry The wooing that began was a long drawn out affair in m marked contrast as Mrs Duke intended it should be to the klie swiftness with v which Angier Angler Duke had captured her heart Sumner Summer r faded into fall tall fall into winter sinter r and winter into spring sprig before Mr Robertson had gamed gained her promise to b become come his bride In that time she ib is believed Cd belies ed to has ha hae e applied to him e every cry test which luch her firs first matrimonial experience could suggest Her friends feel sure that he helmet met them in a v way ay that leases her with Ith no doubts concerning his ab ability to supply all the happiness she missed with her first husband Other Other- Otherwise Otherwise wise independent Ise the they think thank that this very Cry dent minded little lady would never ha hase hae e said cs es cs to his Ills proposal A As these lines are written the wad w d l wadding ding at St Bartholomew's Church in New is only a few days das away and by the time they are printed Mrs Cordelia Biddle BiddIe Dukes Duke's not at all 1111 jazzy second romance will have hase ha e ended In her becoming Mrs tIrs Thomas Markoe Robertson r How will this 10 love lose e match turn out out If it proves one half as successful liS as the former Mrs Duk Duke and her friends expect she sho will be hailed not only liS as one liSone of the prettiest but of cleverest one the clever est eat young matrons in fashionable J |
