The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-04-15
YOUNGEST SAVAGE BROTHER
WEEDS YOUNG ACTRESS LADY
Youthful Student Deserts Preparatory School Assume
Residence in Great State Of Matrimony-Yomg Bride
Quits Boy When She Learns He Has No Millions.

About the middle, Of last month.
Robert Savage, son of the late John A.
Savage, suddenly jumped into matri-
iHony with yonng actress in the East
and just about as suddenly jumped out
again.
Duluth is young Savage 8 nominal
home. HIS widowed mother was win.
tering in California and her Youngest
son was a student at the Milford pre-
naratorr school, back there in the
little Nutmeg state. -
The actress was only II years of age.
Her r:s"s"> was Geneva Mitchell of the
ZieGt:rll Follies. 1t is believed. that
lie young woman thought she was
catching a young millionaire. When
she found that he possessed no fortune
in his own right, she handed him back
his ring and returned to her stage and
the Johnnie boys at the stage door.
Young Savage's mother and his
brother, John A. Savage, Jr., present
male head Of the family, did not take
kindly to Roberts short-order nuptials
and they at once set about to prevent a
reconciliation between the hasty victims
of Cupid. There seems to be little
doubt that young Savage and his short
time bride will part forever. 20.
The Duluth daily papers, for some
reason, printed nothing about Robert
Savage's matrimonial escapade. New
York, Chicago and Twin City papers
played up the affair in big head letters
and attractive illustrations. Here is
what the Chicago Herald Examiner
said, viz:
Married In Connecticut.
Young Savage was married two
weeks ago in Milford Connecticut to
Geneva Mitchell, of the Ziegfield Fol.
lies. A week ago they separated and
Savage returned to his mother in La
Jolla, California, with the wedding
ring which the bride returned to him,
Geneva s mother also is opposed to any
reconciliation. Savage, age 20, is a
student~o of the Milford Prep School and
the son of the late John A. Savage.
Savage first met Miss Mitchell last
year, when a friend took him to a per-
Torrance Of the Midnight Frolic -
and after the show introduced him to
her. At Christmas he returned to New
York for holiday visit to one of his
brothers, and since Christmas, he says.
has been to twelve performances of
"Sallv' and to ten of the "Frolie."
As result he came to New York
the end of last week and persuaded
Miss Mitchell to marry him. They
NJ 10 H.
companied by Lillian Acres. also a girl
of the "Sally'' company, and were
married thereby the Rev. Leslie Briggs.
Miss Acres acted as bridesmaid, apd
Wallace c. Works. friend Of Savage.
was best man. No announcement of
the marriage was made until yesterday.
Son Of John A. Savage.
Young Savage is a son of the late
John A Savage, founder Of the John
A.. Savage Company, steel and iron
manufacturers of Duluth, MINI. He
is the Youngest Of family of eight,
having four brothers, John A., present
head of the company, and William D.
of Duluth, Joseph F. of Cincinnati and
Edward of Guggenheim & Co.. of New
York. and three sisters, Mary, Alice
and Helen.
After preparing for Yale at Exeter,
Culver and the Milford School. Savage
entered Yale last fall, he says, with
four conditions. He was made captain
of the Yale ineligible team and was a
contributor to the Yale News, but after
short time decided to resign and re-
turn to the Milford School, preparatory
to reentering Yale later without con-
ditions to contend with.
1t was during his brief Yale expe-
rience, Savage says, that he fell in