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Show I How the Postman's Son Danced His I Way Into the Heart of the Rich, A ' I cence with which the wealthy du Pont family is surrounded fH I ' jftfffl 1v 8on nvery jazx tune had bwi played, instead of the conventiona wedding march, when Harold S Glendenning, the son of a hnmble post man, lod Alicia du Pont, the pretty dyna mite heiress, to the altar in London i few days ago, nothing could have beer more appropriate. This romance of theirs, that has endec in such a surprising but apparently most nappy love match, waa certainly jazz-born. jazz-born. It was on the dance floor that the rwo lovers first met and their admiration for each other's fox trotting drew them together and started them on the road to love. Most of young Glendenning's impetuous impetu-ous wooing of the maid who stood so enormously far above him in wealth and social position is said to have been done while they whirled over the polished floor together. Apparently he obeyed to the letter the injunction of the comic opera song, which urges the man who wishes to be sure of capturing a girl's heart to Auk her while the band t playing, Let the cornet speak for yru, While the- 'cello, nweet and mellow. Aids the winsome maid to woo. What you think you'd like to tell hr, Let the soulful oboe say. Afk h-er while the band ut playing, She'll ne'er say you nay. Yes, Harold Glendenning said it with music, if ever a young man did. Friends of his say that when he told the httJe heiress he loved her and asked her to be hu wife, he was pressing her close in one of the fox trots of which they both are so fond Whether his words of love gained any potency because they were uttered to the accompaniment of wailing clarionets, blaring trombones and thumping drums is a matter for the psychologists to argue over. But, at any rate, Alicia du Pont's reply to them was very quick and emphatic, em-phatic, and greatly to young Glendenning's Glenden-ning's delight Since jazz began to captivate the world with its syncopated melodies it has been responsible for many surprising romances. ro-mances. Indeed, some authorities have thought there was something positively intoxicating about the barbaric rhythms and harmonies of this modem music Under the insidious influence of jazz they have suspected that men and women could lose their headB and their hoart3 as quickly and completely as the superstitious super-stitious people of the Middle Ages used to think they could by swallowing a witch's love potion But never in all its romantic hlrtnry has jazz mothered a more astonishing romance than the one which has made Alicia du Pont Mrs. Harold Glendenning. Never has it fostered a love affair where a wider, more seemingly impassable gulf had to be bridged in order to bring two hearts together. The former Alicia du Pont will some day inherit a generous share of one of America's greatest fortunes As the stepdaughter of Alfred I. du Pont, she is expected to come into a good many of the countless millions which he and others of this famous Delaware family have been piling up in the manufacture of dynamite, gunpowder, and other things just as highly explosive in the way of profits. "Poor but honest,'' on the other hand, is the description that best fits Harold Glendenning's family. It is a sturdy New England stock from which he comes, but not the sort that has ever won anything in the way of wealth or social position. Harold's father, now dead, was for year3 a hard-working letter carrier in the little city of Norwalk, Conn. The modest cottage there which the widowed y?"? ' ' - tt l The modest home of the Glendennings in Norwal' f V Conn., which could be duplicated several hundred ,', ' X times for what it cost Pierre du Pont to build ' Ji hia famous greenhouse t fj' :'!,;aWPiHH ... mother occupies and where the young man's early life was passed furnishes a strange contrast to the great country estates es-tates and the palatial town houses to which even the least opulent members of the Du Pont family are accustomed. The original cost of the magnificent greenhouse in which Alicia's uncle, Pierre du Pont, is trying to outdo the famous hanging gardens of ancient Babylon would alone be enough to build several hundred houses as good as the Glendenning home in Connecticut From his earliest boyhood Harold Glendenning has been a scholarly fellow. fel-low. He went to Dartmouth College, paying his expenses there largely through his own efforts. He was graduated with high honors and won a scholarship which sent him to England to specialize in chemistry at Oxford as ono of the American Amer-ican Rhodes scholars. But the remarkable thing about Glendenning's Glen-denning's college career was not alone the high rank he took in his studies It was the fact that he burned as much midnight oil in pursuit of jazz as ho did in quest of knowledge. This made him a marked man, for it is unusual to find an honor student who has either the time or inclination for such frivolities as dancing. danc-ing. He liked fox trotting, one stepping and tangoinp better than anything else outside of his studies And he was so quick at learning that ho found the time to devote a liberal number of his evenings even-ings to this form of recreation without any sacrifice in scholarship standing Perhaps it is no wonder he has always al-ways been so fond of dancing, for he ia the possessor of an extraordinarily graceful grace-ful and nimble pair of feet. From his freshman flays he was known as Dartmouth's Dart-mouth's best dancer-and all his friends were caer to have him as a partner for their sisters and sweethearts at the junior "proms" and the commencement balls. After he went to Oxford Glendenning kept right on jazzing, and to this he owes the fact that he has jazzed his way straight into the heart of one of America's Amer-ica's richest young beauties His Dartmouth friends profesa to be not at all surprised at the wonderful marriage he has made. As one of them Glendenning, Glenden-ning, the post- ' man's aon who owes hi6 heiress I bride to hia fondness for jazz expresses it, "Wo always knew those jazzy feel of Harold's would win him something some-thing rich " T ' ''Lima''' ty'-xv r ' A .. V'""': j .-' V , ' V -p JTA. But the news that Alicia du Pon' ha I been won by a Connecticut boy of poor and obscure family was a surprise and a most painful ono to more than one pair of millionaire parents. These ambitious am-bitious fathers and mothers had hoped to see a son of theirs carry off this coveted cov-eted matrimonial prize. Jazz and the war with Germany and the fact that Glendenning was .specializing .special-izing in chemistry these were the three lucky chances which brought him and Alicia du Pont together and finally made them man and wife. When the war broke out Glendenning hurried back to America to do his bit for his country. He was assigned to the chemical service of the army and sent to duty at one of the Du Pont munitions plants m Delaware. A few nighta after his arrival Alicia du Pmt and some of her wealthy girl friends gave a dance for the war workers. work-ers. Harold Glendenning was invited, and, of course, he went The opportunity opportu-nity for an evening nf jazz was something some-thing he never could resist. Before he had taken a dozen steps in his first fox trot the critical eyes of Miss Du Pont, also an enthusiastic devotee of jazz, had marked him as a dancer after her own heart just the ideal of manly grace she had always longed to find. "There's a man I I'd like to I trot through life j with," she whispered whis-pered to one of her chums. "Just I see how divinely he danr - Alicia's words have proved pro- piietic, but, of -ourse, when she speke them she ' was only joking. At that time she was bound up in her plsTna for a musical career and believed : he had no room for thoughts of love and admiration for (ho good-looking young chemist's lightf.ot?d:icss wra I . inccre enough for her to reck an introduction. They danced together and all Miss Du Font's opinions of his dancing ability were amply confirmed. For the rest of that evening and on many subsequent occasions when they managed to meet they were partners almost continually. Soon their intimacy grew so noticeable notice-able that Mr. Du Pont and the young wife he had married after the death of Alicia's mother decided it was high time they looked into this budding love affair af-fair of their step-daughter's. Their first impressions of young Glendenning Glen-denning were distinctly unfavorable. Mr. Du Pont, in particular, was strongly prejudiced against the young man, largely large-ly because everybody said, just as Alicia-had: Alicia-had: "How divinely he dances!" From the millionaire's stern, husiness-liko viewpoint, a man who had only his ability abil-ity as a dancer to recommend him was hardly to be desired as a husband for an heiress daughtei . Both he and Mrs Du Pont are said to have had grave fears that Alicia had fallen into the hands of a brainless, penniless pen-niless and unscrupulous, fellow of the lounge lizai 1 type, who would not hesitate hesi-tate to break her heart in order to get his harid on nine of her money. 4 But Mr. Du Pont had not i;., very far in his investigation of Glendenning's past and present and future before he realized his mistake in suspecting him of being be-ing a worthless adventurer an 1 foitune hunter. It was quite plain that the young man had many merits in addition to his nimble feet. He had a level and well filled head, Mr. Du Pont found, and a record for success in using it thaf vuured well for his future Although Mr. Du Pont would have much preferred Alicia's marrying mar-rying the son of some rich and fashionable family, he was too democratic and too eager for the girl's happiness to let this pi if once turn him against the poor and humbly bom but in other wayi highly admirable young chemist. So he gave the "Go" signal to the jazzy romance, and it went swiftly on, developing into the nu. t ardent of love affairs. When the war was over Glendenning Glen-denning returned to England to take up his profession there. On the same boat went Alicia du Pont, to resume her musical studies in Paris. But it proved hard for the girl to keep her mind on the endless scales. She was al- ' ways thinking how nice it would be to be where she could have at least a dance or two every day with the one ma-n whose fox trotting met her every expectation. So she pleaded with her stepparents step-parents to announce an-nounce her en-g en-g a g e m e n t nt once instead of waiting until next year, bis had r 7,K" '.aml cn they consented she and her .-azzing lover had a June wedding in London. Another recent re-cent photograph photo-graph of the dynamite heiress " isented heiresand w.-ll a? O'1 'jKt some of the discords that have ruined mro thiMjj Du Pont romance? fat |