The sun., 1917-07-01
Wedding Set for Tomorrow in
st. Patrick's Rectory, Ac-
cording to Report.

Kingdom Gould, eldest son OF George
J. Gould. known as a sportsman as we'll
as q serious young business man, sur
prised his relatives yesterday by getting
n marriage license from City Clerk
Scuily. The young woman to whom his
engagement WIS thus announced for the
first time is Miss Annunziata Camilla
Maria Lucci. an art student OF Italian
birth. who has been living with her
French maid for two years in the apart
ment house at 81 East sixty-second
| street. She is 81 years old and n Roman
Catholic; Kingdom Gould is 30 and an
Episcopalian They told Mr.. Scully they
would be married Monday at the rectory
Of st. Patricks Cathedral by Mgr.
Gherardo Ferrante.
After getting the license Miss Lucci
went to her home and Mr.. Gould 10
Lakewood. AS their action was COM
plete surprise to friends OF the Goulds
here 1t seemed worth while to ask
George J. Gould about Il. over the tele-
phone from Lakewood he said; ut Is all
news to me / know nothing about IT.
| 1t is the first l have heard. Thank
you. Good-by."
At the Gould city home, S57 Fifth ave-
| nue., q woman who answered the tele-
phone exclaimed, when told OF the mar
riage license, why, that can't be true.
Who is the ladyT' Later Mrs. Gould's
| social secretary said on leaving the Fifth
avenue residence, whose windows are
nothing about II. You win have to see
Mr.. Gould"
Miss LuccI Born In Italy.
| Miss Lucci and Kingdom Gould went to
the City Clerks office a little before
noon. In answering tho questions re-
uuired by law Miss Lucci said she was
| born In Arexxo. Italy, the daughter Of
Condido and Fortunate Mcneil Lucei.
| She gave no occupation Mr.. Gould said
| he was born In New York and that his
business was Corporation" He Is an
officer and director OF several Of the
Gould companies.
Miss Lucci talked freely In praise OF
Kingdom Gould in her apartment in the
| afternoon, but was reluctant to speak OF
herself, saying she dislilled publicity, and
was Just an Ordinary humble creature"
in whom the public could not possibly
be interested. She smilingly parried
questions as to her acquaintance with
her fianoe's parents and other relatives.
II do not know" she said. when asked II
she knew them. But when told OF
George ]. Gould's remark that he knew
nothing OF the match. she nodded her
head and assented, That's right" Be-
| ing also informed that the woman at the
Gould city residence was equally as
| tOnlShed, she again said, Yes, that's
right" She would not tell where or
| under what circumstances she met King
don Gould.
"I have known him several years
was her answer. You must ask him
about eyerything-how we met. when
we are to be married; everything"
AZ Opera Together.
She and Kingdom Gould have been
seen at the opera together many times
In the last two winters. Between acts
they often strolled the corridor, talking
Italian. She speaks French and Eng
lish as we'll as Italian; Mr.. Gould speaks
seven Languages and even took a course
In Arabic at Columbia. Like all the
children OF George J. Gould, he re-
ceived linguistic training. and II is sur
missed that their mutual interests In this
direction helped along his and Miss
Lucci's friendship, Persons who have
seen them much together remarked upon
the yOunB man htSenuNeness upon tnt
dark Italian girl. but no hint OF an en-
Eagemant got abroad until the fact was
revealed yesterday.
Miss Lucci has four room apartment
on the eighth floor OF the East Sixty
second street building, which is near
Madison avenue and only six blocks
from the, Gould residence at Fifth ave-
nue. and Sixty-seventh street. She Ii
known 20 other tenants as Yiyacicus
talented young woman who dresses well
and In Interested In painting and music
} except by reason OF her foreign accent
which Is marked, A boy mendiny q
slinEshot in the hallway yesterday af.
ternoon said he lived In the house and
seemed chaErined 10 have TO admit tina;
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