The Dolores star., 1924-10-24

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There are many view Ol~~1y sI.+.--.
points" from which these international marriages
are to he regarded one cannot ndict all these
American women who marry foreign titles any
more than one can indct whole nation. For ii
is evident that some real love matches Not
always does fortune 20 with the bride. Social
position has been the hearts desire of women ev-
erywhere and always, and marrying the right kind
of title abroad is short cut to ii. Besides young
women are often "in love with love-" the philos-
ophers agree. SO the myth of the splendid Euro
rean lover" appeals to them, rather than the
good American husband"
On the other hand there are international mar
riages where 1t looks to the average American rs
If the holder of the title after money
tirely and as if the American women did not get
their moneys worth Anyway. 1t is n one-sided
bargain. We get nothing in return for fortune
and citizen. There is to he sure, an occasional
exception by way of emphasis We did not lose
citizen-and may have gained One-when Miss
Cornelia Vanderbilt, only child of the late George
w. Vanderbilt, recently married Hon. John Francis
Amherst Cecil, third of Lord William Cecil.
Her fathers will provided that in order to inherit
his estate at Biltmore, n. c., she must always
maintain her residence in the United States. Mr..
Cecil resigned from the British diplomatic service
and is assisting in the management of the estate,
one of the show places of the country.
Up to the time of the World war International
marriages were the increase. An incomplete
list of the more noteworthy in 1914 almanac to-
tails about go Many of them caused a sensation
in their day The aftermath of others still finds
Its way to the first page of the newspapers--for
example, the marriage of Anna Gould 10 Count
Boni de Castellnne and later to the Duke de Tai
leyrand-lerigord. Prince de Sagan and that OF
Mary Victoria Letter of Chicago to Lord Curzon
now earl of Kedleston.
During the the business international mar
riages fell off. After the war came the influx of
French brides with their soldier husbands-not
many fortunes there one imaCipes
Now the business is booming again. They do
say that the 40 presentations at the Court of St
James this year through the American embassy
would have been 600 had all the applications by
American women been granted. Anyway 1924 has
already broken all records with its long list of In
ternationa marriages
Gossips of two continents still talking about
the first international marriage of l924-that OF
Mary Miicent Rogers of New York, twenty
granddaughter of the late II. ii. Rogers of Stand
ard Oil fame and heiress to something like $40
0O0,0OO-well protected. In January she married
Count Ludwig Salm Won Hoogstraten, about forty
of an Austrian noble house. The count. and his
bride were married in the municipal building New
York, and took her parents, Col. and Mrs Henry
H. Rogers, entirely by surprise They went to
Paris. In April her father went to Europe and
returned with the countess. The count did not
come as he had pressing tennis engagements in
Berlin and Vienna. The gossps intimate that her
father arranged matters that the count may
be able TO devote all of his time to tennis abroad
An example of an international marriage which
apparently affords little ground for carpng is that
of Prince Viggo of Denmark and Miss Eleanor
Margaret Green of New York last June The
bride Is granddaughter of Abram s. Hewitt
once mayor of New York, and great -granddaugl,-
ter of Peter Cooper, the philanthropist Her Off.
cial title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eleanor
of Denmark, countess of Rosenberg There is no
great amount of money either side. 1t is stated
that Prince Viggo obliged to waive all rights
of succession to the Danish throne of King Chris
tan X. both for himself and his heirs
When Mrs Jacob Wendell of New York (and
Hertfordshre England) recently announced the
engagement Of her second daughter Phippa, to
Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart, twelfth earl
Of Galloway, another glimpse given of the
realm Of pure romance. where American dollars