New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Cossips Setting
Bridal Day for
.Mr.s.McCOrrnick
Say She Will Wed, but Can't
Decide if 1t Will Be DIR.
Hoffman, Psychologist, or
Edward krenn, Architect
Friends Call 1t ssBunk
Contend Law Won't Let Her
Marry Until December;
Hears Rumors in Silence
Special Dispatch 30 The Tribune

CHICAGO, Aug. Rumors that
the former Mrs. Harold Mccormick ex-
poets to marry after the year dating
from her divorce is up were revived
to-day by the news of the marriage Of
Gamma Walsha and Mr. Mccormick.
These rumors seemingly have no more
substance now. than they had last
syringe when they first were heard.
In the first readjustment of the McCor-
mick family-when Harold was wooing
his prima donna and Mathilde was an
nouncing her engagement to marry
Max Oser-it was whispered that Mrs.
Mccormick might we'd again. Two men
were mentioned as possibilities One,
DR.. Josef Hoffman, psych ologist- physi-
clan in whom Mrs. Mccormick became
interested while in Europe before her
divorce. The other was Edward Krenn,
a Swiss architect, who accompanied
Mrs, Mccormick to Chicago from
landscaping in the Geological Gardens
which Cook County is to build at her
expense.
The revived gossip deals with the
same men. Of one of them, volunteer
prophets are saying: John d. Rookie
feller's daughter will be married early
next year.
Rumors Called Bunk"
Rumors of Mrs. McCormicks con-
templated marriage to the Swiss
gardener were characterized as bunk"
to-day by a man who has been close
in touch with her affairs as one of her
advisers.
The informant refused to allow his
name to be used in the discussion. He
declared that he has known Mr.. Krenn
for some time and asserted that he be-
lieved Mrs. Mccormick would not
marry a foreigner when she had so
vigorously opposed the approaching
marriage of Max Oser and Mathilde,
in keeping with the wishes of her
father that none of his daughters bow
to the stern requirements of the mar
riage laws of Europe. The dis
crepancy in the ages of Mrs. McCor-
mick and Mr.. Krenn were also pointed
out as indicating the improbability of
the match.
The former Mrs. Mccormick was not
accessible to-day. At her country
home in Lake Forest and at 1909 Lake
Shore Drive, the town house, questions
based upon rumors were received In
cold silence.
The gossip is based on nothing more
sound than the fact that Edith Rookie
Teller Mccormick has displayed ST in
terest in the work of the two men. She
came into contact with DR.. Hoffman
while in Zurich studying psychology
under DR.. Carl Jung, whose theories
are said to have interested her pro-
foundry When she returned to the
United States she brought the doctor
with her as her personal physician,
and as counsel in connection with the
psychological research establishment
she is said TO have in mind.
Mr.. Krenn is a markedly different per
son. He is only twenty-eight years
old. His patroness was first married
twenty-seven years ago. DR.. Hoffman,
too, is middle-aged. Krenn is plump,
blond and natty. DR.. Hoffman is the
embodiment of dignity.
Kremm EvaGed Questions
The romantic rumors were put
squarely up to Mr.. Kremm last May,
when first they were heard. He was
iabhergasted at the boldness Of his
interviewers, but, recovering his bal
ance, put aside the questions with
evasive answers.
II am bachelor" he said. "Wheth-
err I shall remain SO, who knows? Mrs.
Mccormick is very nice and a very
good friend Of mine. That is all ]
care to say.
The one other "unreaojusted" member
Of the Mccormick family is Muriel,
the elder daughter. When her father
and mother separated Muriel openly
sided with the former. She made her
homo in the Mccormick mansion at
675 Rush Street, treated her mother
coldly whenever they met and boldly
defended her father. But she is known
to have looked with disfavor upon
Gamma Walska.
Now she is left an orphan in effect
Whether this estrangement endangers
her chances of inheriting a share of
the Rockefeller and Mccormick for
tunes is a matter of speculation
Mccormick and Nine. Walska will go
through second ceremony when they
return to this country, his friends said
to-day, in obedience to the Illinois
law, which makes illegal the marriage
of divorced persons within a year after
the divorce.