The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-09
GOTHAM GOSSIP
tRy Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910.
by the National News Service, N. "

New York. June "a man who has
speaking acquaintance with prob
ably more society men and women
in Gotham than any other single in
diVidual and is familiar with their
relations to one another stood at the
entrance of the picturesque Meadow
Brook club grounds at Westbury
on the first day of the International
polo championship meet between the
United States and England and
counted more than 100 couples who
had passed through the divorce mill.
Seemingly wherever you gaZed the
face of some familiar grass widow or
debonair widower, who had taken the
count, clipper and unperturbed as If
he or she had never impaled their
heart upon matrimony's barbed gate.
confronted one. Ex-husbands brush
ed elbows with ex-wives, greeted each
other cheerily as old friends and
passed on to their box, ablossom in
all their radiant summer plumage.
Accompany some of the men were new
wives and not to be outdistanced by
their former liege lords, not few
of the wives were chaperoned by
new "hubbies" who Joined in the
formal exchange of formalties, with
certain affectation of interest in
each other that seemed TO signify:
''Oh, putter. you haven't anything on
me, even if 7 am No. % Elsie French
Vanderbilt, who divorced Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, received a cor
dial reception from members Of the
Vanderbilt family and was the centre
of much interest because of the re-
port, renewed recently that she con-
templates marrying again in the late
fall or winter. None Of the galaxy
i'll at ease as they are disposed to do,
when they are in company not so
mixed matrimonially as that at West
bury. Following the game they fra
ternized freely at the fashionable res
taurants and roadhouses in the vici-
nifty tow hich they motored for sup
per. Many old wounds were healed
and a general toning up of former
friendships ensued.
Among his friends and admirers
along the rialto, there is a growing
suspicion that as he is moving along
in years, Nat Goodwin, the actor,
is changing the tenets of the faith
he practiced so tenaciously in his
earlier days. Once upon a time, he
looked upon a welcher as a person
to be Stunned and unfit to associate
with. In the face Of his oft empha-
sized opinion on this subject, it is
difficult for his friends to understand
his recently expressed purpose to in
stitute suit against Edna Goodrich,
his fourth and last wife, who recently
divorced him, for the dissolution Of
the trust he created for her benefit
at the time of their marriage two
years ago. By this trust, she re-
ceives the income from real estate
valued at $500, 900 as long as she
lives. Goodwin feels that this gift
is tremendous cost to pay for a
little more than eighteen months of
conjugal bliss and believes that it
is unfair of his wife to exact so heavy
a tribute from him. Maxine Elliott
who was Mrs. Goodwin No. g. was
willing to give a quit claim on him
for nothing and he cannot see why |
her successor should not be equally |
generous. But then, wife No. turn |
ed down a millionaire miner from the |
West, in order to marry the actor
and she thinks the provision made |
for her by Goodwin is only a fair
compensation for the sacrifice she
made for him. If the genial Goodwin
who has not yet rehabilitated himself
with many of his admirers who
bought stock a few years ago in his /
mining ventures with George Graz
ham Rice, On the strength of their
confidence in him, only to lose their
investment, persists in going to law
over the deed of trust. his wife will
make stubborn fight to uphold it,
in whatever part of the country the
action is brought
Before the summer passes, it is re-