| Show r rA rt raf i af How Ambitious Yung Mr Cushing inal y Worked 1 A t lY a W 6 his way Into Society's emst Circe and ii I II Won a Fashionable Heiress r Hs Bride Bridei tW Below the former I rr x a i Miss Maud Kahn Kohn whose marriage to f- f iF i sr John C O 0 Marriott g is thought to have de w been a adeep deep disappointment t t's s 's w to Mr f Cushing rD 4 Y r r v i A pi r i t 1 FN t w 1 h sr t A s 1 r t 1 b r ry a j e a un 3 t ri AeY y g f u ref F 1 2 q a aYr yi i k X rf v M e ee r J 3 Y lair t v 1 e y h t r rj ri j i s 's sv e S or nr w GU tr tra I 4 r 0 t Sr a i a fl H Hr r v e i a ra s s z k rr rP I IA It Iw A w 1 A As s t t l x f Fis tA l i S t If Howard C Cushing 3rd the Van Van- Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Van family latest late t love ac member HEmen HE men and women men of the Van Van- Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Van THE THEmen T family hate hale figured In Inmany inmany inmany many extraordinary romances but It Is la doubtful if any of these love loven loven n matches have presented at the very start V more Inore surprising features than thal that rn In which young Cathleen Vanderbilt Is the tho hero heroine me r Until lately Cathleen's adventures with 4 Cupid have hardly received the attention they deserve probably because they fol followed lowed so closely on the second marriage of her father Reginald C Vanderbilt I Her lIer engagement to Howard C Cush Cush- Cush- Cush Cushing Cushing ing mg was as announced within a few days after the daddy whom her mother divorced ha had rather hurriedly married MIs Miss Gloria Morgan Mogan a beauty of almost exactly Cathleen's own y age The society gossips have rather neg neg- neglected neglected Cathleen 0 owing Ing to their being too busy speculating about Reggie's second matrimonial venture and the serious ill IU- illness ill illness ness of the little bride that came so o near covering her orange blossoms with crepe But now that Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt IS recovered from her attack of diphtheria diphtheria diphtheria theria and safely started on a belated honeymoon the buzzing burring tongues are mak mak- makIng making making ing up for lost lot time The general tenor of the comment rye heard on every side is that with all his g many engaging qualities Howard Cush Cush- CushIng Cush- Cush Cushing Cushing ing is hardly the sort of man one expect to find the promised husband of ofa ofa ofa a Vanderbilt heiress He has neither the wealth nor the aristocratic family con con- connections connections connections nor the social prominence to recommend him for such an honor Of course the have a place In The Social Register and the entree to many fashionable drawing rooms In New York and Newport But they have havene ez neier moiled moved in the exalted circles where the are ale found and the chances are that even cn Harolds Harold's marriage will not be able to h lift t them to those lofty social levels In proof of the wide gulf which sepa sepa- separates separates rates the and the It is pointed out that Howard received his elementary education in the tho public schools while Cathleen and her numer numer- numerous numerous ous Vanderbilt cousins and the other boys and girls gills of her set were pupils In ine inthe inthe e the most exclusive private schools Of course COUlse in a nation supposed to be famous for its democracy the fact that thata a young man had for tor his schoolmates i the sons of workingmen and the daugh daughters tern Ula of tenement house ouse mothers ought to tobo be a point in his favor rather than one i against him Still it cannot be denied t r that in m the tho circles where the move a public school education is 18 hardly i thought a desirable thing Cushing Howard Cushing I dont don't seem to recall the name Pra Pray tell me mea a who the young man is and how he ever f succeeded in winning the heart of Reg Rell- Reg- Reg Reggie Reggie t 4 gie gle Vanderbilt's daughter l Comments like these theao were frequent m in inthe inthe the upper circles of the smart set when i i Cathleen Vanderbilt's engagement was Y wasY announced Haughty eyebrows were lifted wonderingly and the tho eyes beneath them took second looks through h ther f w a e l lr r r lr lorgnettes to make sure they had not misread the name It was not difficult for the wondering ones to find out that the are a thoroughly respectable and very mod mod- mod wealthy family who vho have hae long held helda a position on the outermost fringes of the smart set But up to date they have not in m explaining how their son managed to carry off an heiress who was thought a fitting prize price for tor the son of one of Americas America's oldest wealthiest and most distinguished families The romance is a hard blow for those who would like to see sec the aristocracy of American society kept free from any less regal strain It Isa is a deep satis satis- satisfaction satisfaction faction to the tho small minority who be- be believe believe be believe lieve that marriages like this between young oung men and women of widely differ differ- different different different ent social levels arc are just lust what the smart set needs to save it from too much snob snob- snobbery snob snob- snobbery snobbery bery and ultimate dry rot The winning of Cathleen Vanderbilt by Howard Hovard Cushing is believed to havo ha ha been duo due to no lucky chance but to shrewd d and persistent effort on the young mans man's part In the fashionable mable Avenue clubs where he is better known than he is in the drawing rooms he has long been facetiously referred to toby toby toby by the wags as Pushing Cushing This euphonious nickname is said to have been given glyen him because of his os- os ostentatious os ostentatious and determined efforts to lift himself high above his family's some some- somewhat somewhat what hat lowly social circle and win for his bride some great heiress But until he hemet hemet hemet met Cathleen Vanderbilt his Us struggles for a rich wife were an unending enc enc- suc succession C- C cession of failures Some of the gossips are lire whispering that Miss Cathleen would auld hardly be the proud and happy engaged girl she is If she sho realized at nt how many other f feet et the heart of pf this promised husband of hers had bet been n laid before her own turn came The list of other heiresses for whom horn ambitiOuS and energetic Mr Cushing Gushing is said bythe to have hae been a suitor is 18 headed by the former 1 Miss Maud Kahn daughter of the wealthy banker Miss Kahn frolicked about with How How- Howard Howard Howard ard Cushing for a good many months and seemed to get got a great deal of en- en en enjoyment out of his dancing and conver conver- conversational conversational abilities But when hen it came to settling down to married life she chose for her husband John Charles Oakes Cakes Marriott a quite different type of man Another heiress who was a great pal of Howards Howard's but who looked with no favor at the heart he ha is 19 said to o have J Mr and Mrs Reggy Van Van- Vanderbilt Vani qI who spared the time from their own romance to help along the tho love match which daughter Cathleene Cathleen's mother Mr Mr Vanderbilt's divorced d wife wife-didn't wife didn't think so much of tin finally ally offered her Is the former Katherine Macka Mackay daughter of Clarence H II Mackay the telegraph A and cable million 4 f sue nile Any Auy hopes hope young sS er Mr Cushing may have cherished of sharing inthe in r the Mackay millions cams cam e eto to an end when hen Katherine Katherine Kathe- Kathe rine married Kenneth Kennoth R j OBrien O'Brien third rich bud Still a r for whom he is reported r to have set his cap is t tn n e Cathleen's cousin Muriel at Vanderbilt Like theother theother the tho other two she seemed to l r enJoy pia playing placing Ing about with him but when hen it came to toa toa toa a question of marriage marriage- marriage as as the gossips insist it P her did did her answer was a word of two letters Instead instead In- In Instead stead of the one of three young Mr Cushing Gushing coveted cov- cov d eted There are arc said to have been f Iv v vr r been a number of fashionable fash- fash S r r debutantes of lesser less- less fer f er note into whose hose ears cars A he v whispered h words of rr g glove love before entering upon the tho cam cam- campaign camy campaign campaign y that finally won on him Reggie Vandebilt's only daughter A r Cathleen Vanderbilt Is as rich lIch richa lIcha a love prize as any Howard Cush Gush Cushing Gushing ing mg or any other young bachelor could try to win Beside the list of wealthy and socially powerful rela- rela relations relations rela to whom horn she can lay claim the Cushing family tree seems Beems like the scrubbiest of saplings She is a granddaughter of th dow dow- dowager dowager ager Mrs Vanderbilt anda andar and ar a niece of Gen Gen- General Gen General eral Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs Harry Payne Whitney the Countess Laszlo and Mrs Hollis Her cousins include Cornelius Vanderbilt lr Jr Grace Vanderbilt V George W Van Van- Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Wll- Wll Wiliam lam Wil-lam lam iam H Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Mrs Roderick Tower Tover Barbara Whitney Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Barbara Kemp Countess Alice and Countess Nada Cathleen's mother who married Syd Syd- Sydney Sydney Sydney ney J Colford jr after ater her divorce from Reggie Reggio Vanderbilt is thought to have hae w ben been painfully aware of the tho disparity In wealth and social position between her daughter and young Mr Cushing and to have done allsho all sho could to turn the girls girl's heart In other directions Mrs Coli Colford ord could get into ac- ac action action ac action tion however things had gone too far for her opposition to havo have any effect And so she had to give her blessing to the engaged couple with what grace she sho could and try to hide any regretful thoughts of the tho law in law ln-law son she might have had From her father on the other hand Cathleen is thought to have hUH received the warmest support in m her attachment for Howard Gushing Cushing Her love lo affair camp came a f 3 a k n I i y c 1 F nr s 0 a 1 1 r y lArA t S 'S r i L rr i n fIrs t tL fI r ra a s f k d V VA A r f h rs n P Y F f 1 U 1 5 f fr r y q 1 ya f r ry y 1 e Q a wi with th 1 r iJ y rF rss ary f ya yaN N YV sti g cr r r Cathleen Vande Vanderbilt's bilts bilt's cousins cousin Muri Vanderbilt who could the gossips say hav have had bad Howard Cushing for c Q husband if husband if she had wanted him juat JUs MIen men Mr Vanderbilt was falling madly in m lovo love with young oung Gloria Mor Mor- Morgan Mor- Mor Morgan Morgan gan and so he was quite in the tho mood to look with favor OT on any lover lo no matter what his station in life or how much or little money he ho had in his pockets Some of the gossips think that Reggie Vanderbilt was as so fascinated by Glorias Gloria's girlish beauty and so eo eager to win her away from the tho movies that he would woul have been inclined to say go ahead if his daughter had asked his consent to marry a At any rate there seems to be no doubt that young Mr Cushing owes some of his success in lD this latest of his COUI court ships to ships to the warm support ho received from his prospective e law in and the latter's fiancee e It is b believed this went a long way toward swaying Cath- Cath Cathleen's Cath leens leen's heart toward him and spiking the tho guns of Mrs Colford's possible OPpOSItion opposition opposition tion to the match Of course courso Gloria Morgan was perhaps In a better belter position to sympathize with Ith 4 1 U Mr Cushing's J 1 lofty ambitions ambi- ambi I V I f kj lions than anyone any one else cUo forIt forA for It A she knew what aP i a aa a tremendous Yf i difference to dt her own for fortunes for for- y tunes her coming com corn lD ing alliance with a Vana Vanderbilt Van Van- 4 a was going going go- go going ing to make s cz The months preceding Glorias Gloria's courageous Invasion of the film acrid orld as a humble movie extra are said to h havo ve been distressingly lean ones for forthe forthe forthe the three putty pretty girls of the Morgan family At one time Gloria Glona MOl Morgan gan and her hert t twin sister Mrs Converse were actual actual- actually actually actually ly forced to try in order to earn enough to maintain a sem sem- semblance semblance semblance blance of th r position In fashIonable society When Cathleen Vanderbilt's engage engage- engagement engagement ment Vi as aas as announced everybody felt sure she would be married during the height i 1 Mia Miss TOlia Caf Cathleen een Vanderbilt only daughter of Reginald C Vanderbilt and Mr Mrs Sydney J Colford jr and the future Mr M Mrs Howard C C Cushing of the season at Newport Such Sucha I 1 In a n wedding would seen eem only fitting for a bride so 80 rich and fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable fashionable I able even though perhaps she has not done so well in the 11 way nay ny of a husband as ashel asher axher her hel friends might v wish Ish But it now appears that nothing of j i the kind is on the cards The wedding wIll not take place until the fall it is 18 announced and the scene of it is 18 qUite likely to be the fashionable colony of in m the Berkshire Hill Hills v where here Cathleen's mother is planning to lease an estate The yo o OL ng heiress will pass pass the greater er part of the summer with her grandmothers grand grand- grandmothers grandmothers mothers the tho dowager Mrs VanderbIlt mistress of The Breu Breakers ers in Newport and Mrs Irs l Frederick Neilson to t Even Cathleen Vanderbilt's friends admit that this love match of hers IS harder to understand than any romance her family has known but they also aho think it stands a better chance of turn turn- turning turning ing out happily than many of the more ious and conventional ones r iP a Ia I M I r r l I t- t tL s- s st if 1 y I i Te t in caa ory 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