The Washington times., 1931-04-18
NEWS. VIEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN TIL
Distinguished Gathering to
Attend SzeChenyi
NuptialS Today
BY ANNE PATTEN

Even the weather man smiles
for q Vanderbilt!
The 19-year-old Countess Alice
Szechenyi, daughter of the Hun
garian Minister and Countess
Laszlo Szechenyi, was greeted
when she awakened this morn
ing by the loveliest Of days for
her wedding this afternoon to
Count Bella Hadik. son of the
former premier of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire. Count John
Hadik and Countess Hadik.
Countess Alice, it will be re-
membered. is member of the
Vanderbilt clan, her mother
having been before her mar
riage to the distinguished Hun
garian diplomat, Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt, daughter Of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York, and THE Mrs. Wander
bilt.
PapaI Delegate to Officiate
The ceremony is to take
place at $3.50 o'clock this after
noon at fashionable St. Mat
thew's Church, with the Most
Reverend Pierto FumaSoni-
Biondi, Apostolic delegate, offfi-
ciating. Yesterday the papal
delegate received a cable from
His Holiness, Pope Plus XI,
conveying his apostolic blessing
to the bride and bridegroom.
The cable was one Of num-
ber of congratulatory messages
received from foreign digni-
taries. among them the prime
minister of Hungary, Count
Stephen Bethlen and Countess
Bethlen, and the United States
minister to Budapest, Nicholas
Roosevelt. Both Count Bethlen
and Mr.. Roosevelt are close
friends of Count Szechenyi,
father of the bride.
St. Matthew'S Church, where
the bride has worShipped since
a youngster, is profusely deco
rated for the ceremony in
masses of spring flowers, del
phiniums, white, yellow and
blue iris, pink lilies. yellow
snapdragons and white lupin.
The same flower scheme is
carried out in the bouquets Of
her attendentS, who will carry
huge sheaves of the blooms,
and in the decorations at the
Hungarian legation on Massa-
Chusetts Avenue, where the
wedding reception will be
staged Immediately following
the tying Of the nuptial knot.
Bride Popular Here
The bride herself is a spring
maiden with blue eyes and
golden hair. She has lived so
many years in this country
that Washington claims her
and her three sisters as its own
remembering that she is, after
all, half an American by birth
and more than that by educa-
tion. Countess Alice, in fact,
was educated until her four
teenth year in Washington by
governeSses under the direction
Of Hungarian monks, operating
a school in Staten Island, N.
Y. Her education was that of
a schoolgirl in the Hungarian
public schools, her teachers fol
lowing the curriculum preScrib-
ed by the Hungarian ministry
of education. Later she at.
tended school in Germany and
England.
Her bridegroom, Count Bella,
is a graduate of the agricul-
ture college in Magyarovar,
Hungary. and an enthusiastic
agriculturist. Countess Alice
shares his enthusiasm for rural
life and the young couple ex-
pect in the future to make
their home on the vast Hadil
estate5 near Budapest.
Own Vast Estates
The SzechenyiS, themselves,
have extensive property in Hun
gary where they have made it
practice ever since Count
SZechenyi's appointment to
Washington to spend the
greater portion of each sum-
mer Alice and her bridegroom
have known each other since
children and their romance is
the outgrowth of a long friend
ship based on mutual tastes.
Unfortunately Count Bella was
taken seriously ill upon his ar
rival in this country immedi-
ately following the announce
ment of the engagement and
Washington has lacked the op-
portunity to really know him.
Those. however, privileged to
have met him have found him
a thoroughly likeable young
man.
For her Wedding this after