Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-18
PAPA ASTOR IS
NOT PLEASED
SONS ENGAGEMENT NOT IN
PAIL MALL GAZETTE
The London Times Prints the Notice
Waldorf Jr, Will Wed Pretty
but Divorced Sister-in.Law
of Charles Dana Gibson
Special Gable to The Herald.


LONDON, March 1.-THE London
Times publishes an authorized an
nouncement of the engagement of Wal
dorf Astor, the older son of William
Waldorf Astor, to Mrs. Mamie Lang
horne Shaw.
A friend OF Mrs. Shaw said today
that Mr.. Langhorne did not at first
like Astor's attentions to his daughter
being sturdy American. Whether
AStor's father approves the match is
not known. Efforts to see Mr.. Astor
sr. at his Office and residence today
failed. Mr.. Astor refused to answer
any kilograms and took the afternoon
train for Paris to avoid publicity.
When his daughter Pauline was en-
gagged to Captain Spender Clay, Mr..
Astor announced the engagement in
his newspaper the Pail Mail Gazette.
The Pail Mail Gazette did not announce
the sonss engagement and attaches of
the paper say it will not be announced.
Perhaps this is significant.
Met Aboard Ship
When young Astor sailed from New
York in November he met abroad the
ship Craig Wadsworth, second secre-
tary of the American embassy in Lon
don. Mrs. Shaw and her father were
aboard, also. On the second day out
permission to introduce young Astor.
The introduction occurred on deck
while Mrs. Shaw and her father were
promenadfng. Astor was greatly inn
pressed by Mrs. Shaw's beauty and
wit and was devoted to her for the
of the voyage. Arrived in
London Mrs. Shaw stopped at Clar-
idge's and Astor renewed the acquaint-
ance and began his wooing
In December Mrs. Shaw rented a
hunting box near the village of Kline
ton in Warwickshire. Mr.. Astor fire.
quently went to kineton, and, although
he was delicate and forced to be care
full of his health, under the stimulus
of love he became a good huntsman
and had to ride hard and fast to keep
up with Mrs. Shaw, who is an intrepid
horsewoman and rarely missed being
in at the death of a fox.
Astor always attended the London
dinners and dances where Mrs. Shaw
was invited. His wooing progressed so
quietly that the news of the engage
ment surprised all Mrs. Shaw's friends.
Society did not imagine young Astor
would fall in love and propose to the
American young widow, because it was
convinced that the son, who was SEEM
ingly not very courageous, would sub
NIT to his sardonic fathers social am
titled family. Young Astor, however, |
his friends say, has not become Angli- |
cized, as is his father, and is still
proud of tie fact that he was born all
King Calls Her "Gibson Girl"
Although Mrs. Mamie Langhorne !
Shaw may experience some difficulty |
as a divorced woman in finding a
clergyman of the Anglican church will
ng to wed her to Waldorf Astor, and
nay even be denied marriage license
oy any OF the bishops or the lay Of
icials of the diocese to which she or he
nay apply, yet the fact that she has a
Ormer husband still in the land of the
living in the person of "Bobbie" Shaw
will in no wise affect her status at the
,ourt of st. James.
The former strict rules and regula
ions excluding Divorces. which were
instituted by Queen Victoria have been
allowed to lapse since her death. and
asst summer Mrs. Mamie Langhorne
Shaw was one of a couple of dozen
IF divorces who were invited to court.
Mrs. Shaw in particular being asked
lot only to the ordinary evening draw
md state concerts. She was treated
With marked favor by the king and
queen, especially by the former, who
her the "Gibson girl" And
Is young Waldorf Astor is popular
lis marriage to Mrs. Shaw probably
loyal house.