Show TI TId d o Ea lU 01 r any Q wd c dOn y I 1 T 44 a ae w wY e Y I How This Specter of Tragedy and Scandal So Terrified Ih Nancy Hoyt That She Sent Her tP Lover Back to England Without t His Promised f a ak k l 1 4 h f c I In l n vi vil vis G Ga 9 w Bride Bridei a l s daC t h tro Awl 4 i I 1 See Y t II A w l h t I fl I III OG 4 g p olA a 2 aSt aS a t t t x xv r v F Fe r M r i urR e la ila t aT It r r rc q g i y a aa au ao a u o Z L ty I v sa ky je 3 i x xi i Mu w v y s st s 1 d s I l yc A 1 c 4 if V Y fI fIc vs G Grey rey a v 1 ik e l t I An ti t r N 0 1 w k iL r e v vb f a b i F 1 t t th te tr h e r a I 3 e na nar r iI I Wylie Elinor t 1 y Nancy Hoyt Hoyt's sister lister whose who e first tint husband killed himself after 6 C Che she he ran away with another J woman womans woman's husband HE skeleton of o tragedy THE and scandal which has haunted her family forto forI for to I- years the hateful specter she feared feared would mould not stay in Its closet but would could come stalking forth to rum ruin her het own life and her lovers lover's lovers lover's thi is belle believed tobe to tobe tobe be the real reason why hy MIss Nancy Hoyt tho the charming charming charm- charm in ing Washington society Abelle I belle broke her engagement engagement engage- engage ment to Lieutenant FrederIck Fred- Fred genck erIck crick J Wiseman-Clarke Wiseman y of the British navy naV Juston just y yon on the eve of their mar mar- marrIage marriage f x xIt It was within a few hours of the time for the wedding bells to start ringing Scattered among the most fashionable of Washington's hotels clubs and private homes were scores of distinguished guests I Iwho who had traveled thousands of miles tobe to tobe tobe be present at the ceremony The Tile best man and th- th th matron of honor hOllor had journeyed all the way from the CIty of Mexico Lieutenant WIseman- WIseman Wiseman-Clarke's Wiseman Clarkes Clarke's father and mother had crossed the Atlantic to see sec their son claim for hIs bride ride tins tillS haired dark-haired American The invited guests included not only an the elite ehte of Washington but some of the smartest of the New York and New New- Newport Newport Newport port smart set For Nancy Hoyt and her mother in spite of the family skeleton skeleton ton are socially very popular Washington was vas quiver a w with wi h antici antici- anticipation anticipation pation patton of what hat was to have been its mo most t brilliant society wedding in In suddenly like funeral a n pall falling failing over the bridal orange blossoms came the surprising and distressing r that the wedding was not to be that be that Nancy Hoyt had decided she could noi not marry the naval officer Washington was as astounded Even the closest friends of the Hoyt lIo Hoit t and Wise Wise- Wise man man Clarke families were puzzled to un- un un understand h shy wh Nancy should shoud break her engagement and send her lover loser away hearted broken hearted just as she was as about to start up the aisle to the marrIage altar According to one tale the gossiping tongues tattled it w was as really not Nanc Nancy Ho Hoyt t at all who broke the engagement but her ber fiance She had ft t was dS w is said carefully concealed from him all knowl knowl- knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of the skeleton that had so 80 long shadowed her lier family with tragedy and scandal On the very day before the wedding he chanced to learn the cruel truth And hen nhen he heard from Nancys Nancy's own lips hat shat a grim thing this skeleton is and how its malign ln Influence u nce might pursue her ber as it already has so many others of i l 1 Mas Ma's der I JI A J l la J a 1 a t I d s a r t a aA A d I Lieutenant Clarke Wiseman Wiseman- Clarke of the British Navy r-lavy with whom Miss Hoyt broke her engagement on the tho of their wedding her family he lacked the courage to tomake tomake tomake make her his wife Ife He asked to be released released from his big prom prom- promise promise ise it was hi and only out but of gallantry let it appe apper appear r that the engagement engage engage- engagement engagement ment was being broken by her Another J story tory hadIt had it that Nancy had told her suitor everything Before l fore gIVIng her ner promise to marry ma ry him hint and that h he had declared matter If it there thero were ere a whole regiment of grinning deaths death's hea heads ls concealed about the t Hoyt Hoyttown town to and country ho houses ses His love he was sure would prove rove more than a match for tor them It was from the lieutenants lieutenant's parents according acco to this version that the exist exist- existence ence e of the family skeleton skeleton was con con- concealed con concealed c al d When hen they reached Washington and learned learned what had befallen Nancys Nancy's brother and sister and other of her rela rela- relatIOns relations relations they were appalled They qUickly that in spite of all her charms It would be tempting fate too much to accept t her as a II law fir law daughter And so these fond and anXIOus anxious parents join joined d in pleas picas and arguments that thit final final- finally finally ly forced their on eon much against h liis s swill will to ask his fiancee to call calI the wed wed- wedding v wedding cd- cd ding off s The truth of the matter the real rea- rea reason reason rea reason son for the sudden n dispersal of the dis- dis dis distinguished hn wedding party is now be- be believed be believed to lie he In neither er of these gossIPY At As the the griesing lieutenant sailed sadly back to England on on in the very vely rw s 2 A Ar r ih 4 Ih e er r day after he and Nancy Hoyt were to have occupied the thc bridal suite on an- an another an another other liner liller he vigorously denied that ho he and his parents v were ere in III ignorance until recently of The Hoit Hoyt Ho t family skeleton We knew all about it he said ever e e since my betrothal to to Miss Hot Hoyt t was an- an an announced pounced and it had notI ln nothing to do ss with Ith the break Nor was it as another story had It through a sudden ofa of a wan wan- waning waning ing mg lose lo for Lieutenant Clarke Wiseman-Clarko Wiseman that Nancy fancy Hoyt Ot tore the bridal veil ell from her head and sent her sweetheart home a brol hearted broken en bachelor No those who know her best belIeved It was because b cause she bhe loved lo the naval officer officer so devotedly that she he ed as she lobe did She Soo unselfishly to sacrifice her own chance of bliss rather than run the risk of dragging her lover with her down to the nd unhappiness which which u h have already claimed so many of her kinfolk According to Nancy Hoyt's HOfts It was as a pitiful and unusual struggle tt that raged In n her heart and brain dUrin during thos those days preceding the Ont one on set for her Bedding She was at grips gnps with the fear that had troubled her more than ever since she promised ed to be the lieuten lieuten- lieutenant's lieutenant's ants ant's the wife the fear of that bony specter spec spec- specter ter tel which typifies her family's shame shamo and and the fate that might over overtake tak take her and the tre man she married Like the heroine of Dagmar the tragedy in Sn which Nazimova a tarred starred I last season she dreaded to think that some somo someday someday day the devil of heredity or whatever er itis It ItIS itis IS that makes some human beings do shameful sl things might spring to life and bring not only her 0 own n future but her husbands husband's al also o to blac black ruin rum With all the strength of her gl eat struggled struggled struggled love she to put this skeleton of tragedy and scandal out of her ker life life- life to slut shut the door on it Jt and make maka it stay hidden forever But the bony specter was as stronger than she and as she saw caw its sinister face continually peering out at her ber she sho shuddered to think how bow It might follow her to th the tha marriage altar and trail her footsteps as long as aha sho cd h cd After days and nights of mental tor- tor torture torture tor torture ture that brought ought her ber to a complete nervous nervous breakdown she decided her struggle was as as hopeless She must make maka y ye e R Hoyt Miss Nancy T Hoyt the tl-e une un- unhappy un happy heroine of her family's latest love tragedy the tremendous turn sacrifice sacrifice turn her back backon backon bachon on her opportunity for happiness and face her dreadful skeleton alone So flinging herself into h her r sweet sweet- sweetheart's sweetheart's hearts heart's arms for the last time she sob sob- sobbingly sob sob-bingly bingly told him that their theft engagement was broken and the marriage must be called off The Hoyt family gave the serious ill ill- illness ill illness ness of the to bride-to-be as the reason for recalling the wedding invitations This IS literally true for Nancy Hoyt's nerves are shattered by the strain of wrestling all alone and unaided WI with her cruel problem But the causes of her illness are ones whIch no ph physicians physician's drugs or surgeons surgeon's instruments can remove remove They Thoy Th y go 10 back to the sensational 10 love loic e affairs of her sister SIS SIS- SISter sis sister ter Mrs Elinor Hoyt Wylie to the sum sum- SUIcIde sui suicide cide of the latter's first husband to the tragic death of her brother and to other misfortunes whose memories form the Ho Hoyt t family skeleton sk skeleton leton This thing tiling of ill omen came into being back in 1910 when Nancy Hoyt's elder sister Elinor left her husband Philip PhilipS S Hichborn and her year one-year-old sonto son sonto sonto to dope with Horace G C Wylie Washington society could hardly have been more surprised if the waters of the Potomac had suddenly changed their course courso and engulfed the city Both the families involved were old and respected arid and of the highest social prominence and there had bad pe Cr never been a lint mt of anything wrong in the neighborly relations that existed between them Philip Hichborn was as the son eon of Ad- Ad Admiral Ad Admiral miral Hichborn and himself the head of ono one of the Navy Departments Department's most im ha important portent bureaus What made the elope elope- elopement elopement meat ment all the harder tb to understand was WIlS the fact that Horace Wylie was sas a man t ent years ears older than Sirs Mrs Hichborn They fled to Europe and from there ther went on on to Egypt and other othet places inthe In Inthe inthe the Near East t At the end of six months the tho runaway pair capped the original of their elopement with another still more taking breath one Elinor Hichborn and ana Horace Wylie returned to America ind and nd the tho latter qUIte as if rf nothing out of tho the ordinary had happened went back hack to live with the wIfe and four children he had deserted for the wife of his friend But the reconciliation Hichborn seemed bent on making and wirch ch Ins his wife forthe for forthe forthe the childrens children's sake was ready to o accept sr 5 F t wI d y With all her strength Nancy Hoyt struggled to 8 put this skeleton of tragedy and scandal out of her life But it was p stronger than she and as she saw its sinister face continually peering out at her she shuddered to think how It might follow her to the marriage altar and trail her footsteps as long as she lived I lasted only a short time Within a few weeks the elopers were ere again on their nay ay to Europe together and this tIme theIr native land did not see them again for many years hearted Broken-hearted Philip Hichborn ap- ap applied applied ap applied plied for a divorce but the ordeal 01 deal of lay ing bare the details of his wrecked romance ro- ro romance ro romance than he mance in the courts proved more could co bear Just before the suit was as to toha ha have hae e come to trial he killed himself Mrs Wylie thinking there was no better way of punishing her faithless husband and Ills his guilty sweet sweetheart heart than by outlawing their love reo re- refused re refused fused for a II number of years to seek II a dIvorce When in 1916 she sho finally ob- ob ob obtained tamed her ber decree Wylie W lie and Mrs Hichborn Hichborn born hurried hUrl led bac back to the United States and were at last duly married Soon after this Elmer Elinor Wylie became intensely interested in literary woric She took up the tho writing of erse serse erse and was hailed by critics and the reading public as one of Americas America's most brilliant poets N Her elderly husband however hoever is said to have had little sympathy with hIs wIfe's literary aspirations which took her ner a away sy from the family fireside into GreenwIch Village and other centers of the artistic ar tlc Bohemian world This and other differences brought about their dI- dI dIvorce divorce di divorce vorce only a few weeks ees ego go go In the Bean 1 mean time still another trag trag- tragedy trag- trag tragedy tragedy edy had been heen added to the Hoyt family's heavy burden of shame and sorrow by bythe bythe bythe the suicide of Henry Martyn Hoyt the talented artist brother of Nancy and Elinor No satisfactory explanation was ever given for his killing himself and many believed he was haunted just as Nancy is belle believed to have been by dread of the tho family skeleton and of the fate that might be awaiting him lIim if he lived Another brother Morton Hoyt made madea II a dismal failure of finding happiness ill in marrIage He married Miss Eugenia Bankhead a ter of the dis distinguished Senator from Alabama but they could not agree and three months ago they separated The suicides of Henry Hoyt and Philip Hichborn the elopement of Elinor Elmor Hoyt and her subsequent all all these lidded added to man many lesser misfortunes made mado the family skeleton a II thing of dreadful hideousness Even Elinor Hoyt W Wylies Wylie's lies lie's astonishing success in the tho field of literature could not lessen its ItJI omi omi- omi ominous ominous aspect Is it any wonder that poor Nancy Hoyt de developed eloped hat what psychologists call calla calla a fear complex and shrank from the risk of dragging her 10 lover er down don do n to un- un Unhappiness happiness un-happiness happiness The rhe romance which her refusal to marry Lieutenant Wiseman-Clarke Wiseman has probably ended forever was vas one on one of the kind that novelists l ke to write about Miss Hoyt who ho IlS i as is a II debutante of the carl early winter niter of 1931 met the h haul tn ant ut n ant when hen he was as attached to Admiral Grants Grant's flagship II Me MeS M S RaleIgh v shish lay that year off oft the Washington Navy avy Yard They became so interested in each other that thit when wh n the warm weather drove e all the jowl celebrities from Washington the lieutenant obtained a long furlough an anent and went rent straight to Bar Harbor hel e Mrs Mra Ho Holt Hoyt t the widow of tor Solicitor tor General Hoyt of the Stats Stab De- De Department Department De Department and her daughter Nancy Nanc sere ere at thell their er home bome In the fall the young man went back to his naval duties with evident re- re reluctance reluctance re reluctance so delightful had the days of with Nancy Nalcy Hoyt Hot proved pro The Hois followed fo owed lowed him there late last winter and t there there ere a few weeks ago ill the ill fated engagement was sas as announced I dont don't think we wilt will ever e be married mar mar- married married ried said Lieutenant nt Wiseman Wiseman-Clarke Wiseman Just before he sailed from New York the theother theother theother other day It lt is a sad and t terrible t blow to me And the ship news reporters say they have ave rarely looked on Ii d a more cn en eOll countenance than his as ho he spoke these words It came as a complete surprise to tome tome me said the he lieutenant In iii in answer er to further questions I was with 1 Miss Hoyt on the afternoon |