New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Martha McCook
Will Be Bride
OF Eliot Cross
Wedding to Take Place Dur
ing September at Tuxedo
Park Home of Her Uncle.
Charles B. Alexander
Miss Wendell Betrothed
Daughter of Former New
Yorker Will Wed Fran.
els Collingwood Drake

Mrs. John J. McCook, of this city
and Tuxedo Park, announces the en-
earement of her daughter, Miss
Martha McCook, to Eliot Cross, of
this city. The wedding will take
place during September at the Tuxedo
Park home of Charles B. Alexander.
Miss McCook's uncle. Miss McCook is
member of the famous lighting Nc
Cook family" her father beng the
late Colonel John J. McCook. She
made her debut several seasons ago.
snd during the war was engaged in y.
n C. A. work in France. Her sister,
Miss Susan A, McCook, married Peter
Augustus Jay, who is in the diplo-
matte service. Another sister, MISS
Harriet McCook, married Jackson H.
Boyd. of Harrisburg, Pa, April 20, of
this year, at the town home of her
uncle. Mr.. Alexander, 4 West Fifty
eighth Street. Mr.. Cross is son of
Mrs R. James Gross, of 405 Park Ave
nue. and Princeton. n. J. He was
graduated from Harvard in 1906, and
IS member of the Knickcrbocker,
Racquet and Tennis Clubs. He is an
architect, with Office at 6S1 Fifth Ave-
nue..
Mrs Jacob Wendell jr, formerly Of
this city, but now living at Sandridge.
Sandridgebury, Herts, England, has
announced the engagement of her only
daughter, Miss Catherine 7. Wendell.
to Francis Collingwood Drake, son Of
Mr. and Mrs. John Ramsey Drake. Of
Datchwood Hail, St. Albans, England.
Miss Wendell's father died i'll this
city in 1911. He was the son OF the
late Jacob Wendell, a we'll known
commission merchant of New York.
and brother of Professor Barrett
Wendell, Of Harvard, of the late
Evert Jansen Wendell and of the late
Gordon Wendell. Jacob Wendell jr.
was graduated from Harvard, and
while at college took part in the
dramatic productions of the Hastv
Pudding Club. When he returned to
New York ne became q member of
the Comedy Club, and was considered
the best amateur actor in the coun-
try. Later he entered the profes-
the New Thea.cr Company when he
died.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph S. Rainsford. of
l28 West Fifty-ninth Street, are receiv-
ing congratulations on the birth of a
son few days ago ct their country
home in Huntington, l.. l. Mrs. Rains
ford was Miss Marguerite lie Breton.
Mr. Rainsford is son of the Rev. DR..
and Mrs. William s. Rainsford.
Miss Elsie French Rice, who has been
in California for the last nine months,
Will return East the middle of Septem-
ber and join her mother, Mrs. W. Lowe
Rice, at her summer home in South
amp:on, L. I.
Mr.. Philip Rhinelander and his
daughter, Miss Adelaide Kip Rhine
lander, who have been visiting friends
in Cooperstown for several weeks, will
return to New York to-day.
Mrs. Henry Seagwick is the guest of
Nrs. George T. \. Keith al Rolling Hill
Farm, her summer home in Thornwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Salisbury Bent
ley are receiving congratulations on the
birth OF 4 son last week at their coun-
try home in Cedarhurst, l.. I. Mrs
Bentley was Miss Dorothy Anderton,
daughter of the late DR.. William B.
Anderton.
Mrs Frederick sharer Crofts. Of this
city, is visiting her parents, Mr.. end