Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
GOULD FAMILY CALLED
MOST ROMANTIC IN u. S.
George ]. GouId's Marriage
to Mrs. Vera Sinclair AIDES
New Chapter to Sentimen-
iaI History
By MARGUERITE M. MARSHALL
Copyright, 1929

BY MARGUERITE M. MARSHALL
Copyright, 1929
The most romantic family in
America?
Surely there's only one answer to
the question-it's the family of
George j. Gould, son and heir Of old
Jay Gould and his millions.
It is George J.'s second surprise
marriage, the news of which has
just reached New York from Paris,
that calls attention once more to the
number Of love matches to the
square inch in one Of Americas best
known and most frequently head
lined families. For when Mr.. Gould
wed in Lakewood, N. j., Mrs. Vera
Sinclair, said to be beautiful act
ress who appeared in several New
York productions, this middle-aged
father Of seven children merely
proved that the spirit of romance
is as alive in him today as it was
when, as Americas most eligible
bachelor, he courted and won lovely
Edith Kingdom, an actress in the
DAILY company, thirty-six years ago!
Like father like children!
There were three Opponents
among George Gould's children in
the short space Of three years-from
1917 to 1920-and the runaway
couples are all living happy ever
after!
OF his two daughters who didn't
elope, one became the bride of an
m frI, L.
international romance, while the
other wed a fine young American,
son and heir of Philadelphia's most
prominent family-and these love
matches are still prospecting.
The Patron Saint
Truly, Cupid must be the patron
saint Of the Gould family!
And father George J.. began it all.
When his first wife suddenly drop
ped dead on the golf links at Geor-.
gian Court last autumn, in the full
autumnal glory Of her beauty, New
York recalled the romantic circum-
stances surrounding her union with
the son Of the railway magnate.
Edith Kingdom, according to con-
temporary accounts, was a poor girl
in the middle of the eighteen eighties,
an orphan and the only support of
her widowed mother. She lived in
Brooklyn, and, after small parts in
travelling companies, Joined the DAILY
players.
On the night of her first New
York hit she was changing her dress
when the audience insisted that she
answer a call. Throwing a. lace
wrap about her shoulders she peep
ed, blushing, around the edge OF the
drop curtain and smiled her thanks
at the audience, From his seat with
his father in their proscenium box,
young George Gould caught the
twinkle in the actress lovely dark
eyes and fell hopelessly in love-
The courtship was swift and silent.
It was commonly said that the young
mans parents objected to the match.
But Cupid won the day, and one
morning the matchmaking mammas
of America were Mortified to learn
that the wealthiest and most eligible
bachelor in the country was mar
ried to an actress.
Mr.. Gould and his new bride have
taken place in Invernesshire, Scot
land, and it is not likely New York
will have a chance to meet them be-
fore late autumn. But when they
return to Fifth avenue, or to Geor-
gian Court, or to the brides own
beautiful home on Manursing Is
land, at Rye, N. Y, society will
watch with interest the triumphant
Towering Of another typical Gould
romance.
George j. Gould's two sons,
George j., Jr., and Kingdom, mar
ried as swiftly and surprisingly as
father himself. Their weddings took
place within three days of each 9TH
er in 1917-just five years ago this
month.
Kingdom chose a. his bride Miss
Annunziata Lucci, a pupil at the
Art Students League and formerly
a tutor in Italian to his sister. His
brother George was his best man
and the only member of the Gould
family present at the ceremony.
The Younger Generation
New York was still talking about
how the younger generation of
Goulds was following the call of
the heart, when, three days later,
came the news that George J., Jr.,
had eloped with Laura M. Carter, a
dancing teacher; of Woonsocket, r.
T., and had married her in Phila-
delphia. His marriage was quite as
much Of a surprise to the Gould
family as was his brother Kingdoms.
BY the time the senior Goulds and
the rest of us had cotton over the
shock of these two elopements-be-
cause apparently, even If you mar
.ry economically yourself, you're still
a trifIe startled when your children
prove chips of the old block-by the
time the boys were living happy
ever after and all that, we read one
morning of the third Gould elope-
ment! It was that of Miss Edith,
dark-eyed debutante daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. George J. Gould, to boy
ish adorer and art student, Carroll
Wainwright.
She slipped out of the Gould house
at Fifth avenue and Sixty-seventh
street one late May morning in 1920.
met her lover a few blocks away,
entrained with him to Philadelphia,
rootcred from that city to Elkton,
Md, and was married without any
member of her family being pres
ent.
According to their, own admission
tins Romeo and Juliet Of Fifth ave-
rue "eloped to avert a tragedy
SEPARATION for a few months. Their
parents planned to have them spend
the summer in different localities.
The match, apparently, is as felici-
tous as it was inpulsive.
If we may judge by the negative
test of absence from the divorce
court all marriages in George J.
Gould's Immediately family seem to
have succeeded. Although the love
affairs of his two older daughters.
Marjorie and Vivien, were less sem
sat;onal than those Of their brothers
and sisters, they each had their fla
vor Of romance.
The Drexel Marriage
Marjorie, who at the time Of her