Show n t Rich Balked Al Al e Nancy Beautiful Washington i I Society Takes No Chances U 4 on Another Case of Nerves fI 3 but Quietly d S f fL I L W Quickly lUar- lUar AJ Friend I I I r f of r r ri Eig- Eig EigO O 4 i Q d k p H Hi L i f d f i 1 i I My I I J v a r ra j rj tl f Mrs Gerald GeraldI Alastair Wynn I V yone the former who Nancy Hoyt 1 s sto dodged the wracking nerve preliminaries of ofa a fashionable wedding i f fl fly y to make sure her second attempt other balk balle at marriage would not be an yx A y 4 la lan n f I r rother years ago aeo in Washington T 4 THREE the cream of the Capitals Capital's soci society ty pulled on their very whitest kid gloves and adjusted their smartest hats rJ to witness the most brilliant wedding of the season Miss season Miss Nancy Hoyt daughter of the late Solicitor General of the United States Henry M Hoyt was to toI tobe tobe tobe be married to Lieutenant Frederick Clarke I Wise Clarke Clarke an-Clarke son of one ne of Eng Eng- England's Eng Eng- England's England's lands land's most distinguished army officers When the hush came just before the moment loment that everybody expected the pipe organ to boom into the beautiful prelude of Lohengrin's wedding march the silence suddenly became mocking and ever every one looked at everyone every one else as if it to inquire why the minutes were slipping by with no bride on the scene She was not late because she dreaded the solemn moment when the she she w would meet her life mate at the altar and so delay delay- delaying delaying delaying ing a last las second perhaps in prayer be- be before before be before fore going down doWl to tell her lover that she was His iii until death do us part No Nancy Hoyt the beautiful bride bride- was that bride was that that was was-to-bo didn't appear at all and Washington society is still talking about the day she kept them waiting for her Ier herto to take her vows and how pretty Miss Nancy never did offer a very satisfactory explanation for balking so o near near the th altar That Thai Th is society was still gossiping about that wedding until a few weeks ago when the Capital was startled with the news that Nancy Hoyt was wedded at last to a another other Englishman This time she took no chances on nerves but rushed through the cere cere- ceremony cere- cere ceremony ceremony mony in haste The successful bride bride- bridegroom bride bride- bridegroom groom oom is Gerald Alastair Wynn Wynne who it is said is i a friend of the bride groom who woo was le left t waiting at the church A few days day ago go in London Miss Hoyt actually met her second bridegroom in inthe inthe inthe the fashionable Church of Saint George Square and there in the great silence of that spacious cathedral the two were married without any congratulatory congratulatory congratulatory friends to send tend Miss Mi 3 Hoyt into a second fit of hysteria oh her second nuptial date dale Not very soon toon however will the nation's na nation na- na nation's tion tion's capital forget its wed wed- wedding wedding ding For that was the first time timo in recent years that Washington has been een treated to a scene of that kind t Chicago society on the other hand is quite accustomed to reneging brides and after twice gathering in their most formal ups get-ups to see sec Mary Landon Baker married to Amster Allister McCormick McCormick- and being twice they disappointed disappointed they are arenow arenow now almost leery of setting aside an n I afternoon afternoon flern on or evening for a wedding It Itis Itis IS is so likely to turn out like a concert concert-at concert which Leginska is scheduled to play Other cities too especially New York l pave have ve adjusted their lorgnettes and pro pro- proceeded proceeded proS to the church only to hear the wedding march being repeated over and t 1 I over while the th disconsolate wilted in the vestry and the distracted the minister finally had to call the whole thing off But in the case of Miss diss Hoyt who since that failure to keep her appoint appoint- appointment appointment appointment ment at the altar has written a very sophisticated novel Roundabout pub pub- published published by Alfred Knopf it was really according to all reports very much of ofa ofa ofa a love match Therefore all her friends ask sk Why didn't she keep her date with him at at the altar The handsome Lieutenant Frederick Clarke Wiseman Clarke Wiseman-Clarke Clarke vas was not the only suitor Miss Hoyt lIot had for she was one of the most attractive girls ever to make her debut in Washington and so it is evident that pretty Miss Nancy didn't agree to to marr marry her first first bridegroom just because she was afraid id idof of never getting anyone any one else It is generally conceded that the dark eyed vivacious Miss Hoyt who moved in the uppermost circles of Washington society probably received more pro proposals pro pro- proposals proposals than any of her sister debs in her first hectic season and of all her numerous suitors Lieutenant Clarke was obviously first choice With this all her friends agree They say that the charming Miss Hoyt could have married any anyone one of a dozen nota nota- notable notable nota- nota notable ble catches and that she chose th the dashing young Englishman for the very good reason that she was in love with him Their further speculations also seem very logical in of of the very swift ceremony by which this shy thy bride was wed in her second trip up the aisle Washington's version advances the very interesting theory that it is a won won- wonder wonder wonder der that every society bride brid doesn't renege a after ter the fuss and fume and wearying round of preliminaries that one has to go trough to be married in ina ina ina a fashionable wiy day to-day For instance one says Yea and then right away there is the problem of when and how to announce th the engagement When that is settled upon and the joyful tidings are burst forth the prenuptial begin Every debutante of th the same season for the bride to bride to usually gives a party That usually means forty or fifty luncheons and dinners all to tobe tobe be accomplished in the space of about three months which is the th usual time between the formal announcement and the wedding ceremony But Dut these tedious engagements are only a small part of the heavy burden that the prospective society bride shoulders shoulders ders when she the announces announce to the world that she is about to be married There are dressmakers to be b visited invitation lists to be carefully gone over gifts for tor the attendants to be selected and a thousand other very important and very very fagging details detail to b be at- at attended at attended tended to t R 1 rr vi i 3 I e ea t 1 iX t a aThe f TheiX The wedded thrice Elinor Wylie V whose experiences as a bride may have been in the mind of her sister Nancy when she left Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant Lieutenant tenant Wiseman Clarke Wiseman-Clarke Clarke n-Clarke Clarke waiting at the church three years ago All these matters were part of the burden that the naturally high strung and very sensitive Nancy Hoyt took on when she announced to Washington so society so- so society that Lieutenant Clarke Wiseman-Clarke Wiseman was the lucky man Being an exceed exceedingly popular girl she was entertained even more than the average society bride After weeks of frenzied activity poor Nancy Hoyt was probably at the the point where she didn't know whether she loved her handsome lieutenant or whether she was in love at all Nerve specialists will tell you that that often when we get a bad case of neu neu- neurasthenia neu- neu neurasthenia neurasthenia caused from over exertion we take a violent dislike to th the persons we love most Of course it was er very unfortunate that the climax should come on the tir very day of the wedding when she was stand stand- standing standing ing in her bridal veil with the bouquet in her hand But that was the most likely time for the break to come foras for as all who have participated in fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable able weddings know the last few days are arc the most fevered of all Nancy Hoyt's case was just this this kind of ofa a not unnatural When her wedding guests gathered lit at atthe atthe the fashionable Hoyt home on or May 23 1923 th the beautiful dark haired bride was in her boudoir arraying herself is in isher her bridal satin Her Fier shimmering shimmering- gown was on and her pretty feet were Vere in her wedding slipper Her mother was standing over her pl pi i pin pinning ning on her veil which fell Cell over her long train like a beautiful white mist At this moment when the fragrance of orange blossoms was in her nostrils and the damp petals of her bridal bou t qu t qUAt rested against her arm Miss hoyt suddenly crumbled up in her mothers mother's arms like a broken lily and heart brok heartbrokenly heartbrokenly heartbrokenly enly cried out Ohi Ohl I Mother I cant can't go through with it The desperation in Miss Boyts Boyt's Hoyt voice and the trembling hysteria of her nind hind cl s may N r J J i t A A recent photograph Nancy of-Nancy Hoyt who saw to it that her Iier second British fiance was not a victim of her nerves an ailment that sent her first husband to back to England sad and single words convinced her mother that her were only too true and that there would be no wedding in the house that day Without saying a word Lieutenant Clarke Clarke Wiseman-Clarke and his his father father and mother who had come from England to see him married to the Washington belle sailed for tor home home The episode was closed and they had nothing to to say Pretty Miss Nanc Nancy the desired desired of all the de- de desired de desired sired had refused to marry their rn ron n After Miss Hoyt's stage fright had been doctored and her nerves had h d been restored to normal she turned away aay from society to literature and bel began n writing the novel that has given her a great deal of fame since it was published last winter Her lIer new husband is a friend of her first fiance and andro ro to doubt Miss Hoyt had to convince him lim that her nerves were all right and that h he was in no danger of getting left like his friend thee tenant eu-tenant tenant Very wise is the comment of Nancys Nancy's friends on the recent event They point out that she the it is just the th typo type of bride that never could go through alot a alot alot lot of nerve strain before a big wed wed- wedding wedding ding and in such cases cases ases it is better to be married in a hurry without telling telline any any t 1 e Job JoD rIU Ina J f r 1 fv 1 I R C Cw CY w Y 1 i iS S Mary Landon Baker another nervous bride to bride to be who who- wh has bas twice disappointed Allister Mc Mc- McCormick McCormick McCormick Cormick and fashionable Chicago society by suddenly becoming indisposed sed to take the mar mar- marriage marriage marriage vows one about it nt after th the papers are signed Miss Hoyt's royt's first and her het he re recent ent sur prise nuptials recall the matrimonial escapades s of f her ber talented and be beautifuL sister Elinor linor Wylie who though h still comparatively young oung has been married three times times Her lIer third husband is the brilliant nt editor editor and poet William Will am Rose Benet El Elinor like her sister Nancy was one of the most beautiful of the current debs the year she made her bow to Not only was this Hoyt sister considered a ranking beauty but she was also extremely vivacious and witty First off oft Elinor Hoyt chose Phil Philip p a popular young bachelor of I 5 I J v w 1 Therell be no nerves nerves this time said Gerald Geraldl l Alastair Wynn Wynne remembering how a ow beautiful beau beau- beautiful beautiful and talented Nancy Hoyt once o 0 nee n c e left his friend Lieutenant Wise Vise man-Clarke man standing ata at ata a altar attar attara altara a very Ia good Washington I family Everything pointed to a happy marriage but but of course no one counted on v 1 the temperament of Miss 1 Hoyt Hot who was beginning to y evince a great interest in iny literature and the literati of the tIie Capit Capital 1 l of f settling down 1 as a quiet matron like hers her other friends friends who had taken y husbands young Mrs Mra HichI Hichborn Hichborn I born began to like her poetry better than her husband gossips said Whether young Mr Hichborn had an any objection to his wife's ife's literary aspirations is not known but at any rate there must have Been Geen some som irreconcilable dif di- differences dif dif- differences for Elinor packed her bags and galloped off to England with Horace Wylie leaving poor Mr Hichborn so hearted hearted broken that he killed himself In Englan England i as Mrs Wylie the charm charm- charming charming ing Elinor got c great deal of inspiration inspiration tion for her verse and critics critic began to rank her as a poet ofa of a high order But just as everybody had begun to regard this uni n as a very congenial and happy one Elinor changed her mind again and it was wis was over o Whatever her feelings Miss Elinor took a third husband and from all ac accounts ac- ac accounts counts this marriage to Bill Benet will prove quite durable It may be it-at it pretty Miss Nancy Hoyt had all these experiences of sister Elinor in mind when wll n she refused to go goon goon goon on Mth her first scheduled wedding it t may be that at the last minute it seemed better bettor to her to end negotiations at the edge of the altar rather than is 1 the divorce court S 1 |