The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-25
ASTOR-FRENCH
 WEDDING TO SEE
 SOCIETY FOLKS
Alleged Quiet Event Will Have All the Rich Elite
 of Nation

Newport, R, l., June 25-UPo- Jack" Astor, multimillionaire ht 2l, takes Ellen Tuck French, 10, aS his bride nt D, ID, Saturday in quaint old Trinity church, whore George Washington once w0r- shipped.
 Major details had been arranged to-day for thls social event of the season, wedding of the sixth John Jacob Aator to tho demure titlan- haired daughter of Francis Q. French of Dcdham, Mnss, and Mrs Livingston French of Newport and New York,
 simplicity" win mark the occa- sion, say tho respective families, but tho planned quiet of the church ceremony Itself will bo on. set by tho dnxyling list of American society leaders nnd titled Euro. pcnns sitting in the pows.
 Tho Ast0rs, VandcrbiltA, Whit ncys and other "nristocrats" of the social register will bo there, Prln. cesB .lgucl do BrnRnnxn, Counters I.asSlo Sxcchcnyi, Count and Coun. tess Alfonso r, villa, Lady Chcy. lesmore, Princess Louise MDivani, and Mrs Rulmund Von Hofmann- stnhl, tho former Princess Ob0lcn. sky. Many of the elite 0f the land will be getting their first view of Astor's 26-ycar.old stcp-fathcr and former boxing teacher, Enxo Fior- monte, and Ot pr Ernst Franz Sodwlck HnnfStaengl, visiting Saxl official who will be tho guest of Fl. lens father.
 The Rev Henry St, George Dur Till, rector of Emmanuel church, hna accepted m invitation to offi- ciatc, after tho Rev Stanley C. Hughes, rector of old Trinity church, dlsclosed on return from n cruise that ho had n previous en- Rngcmcnt to solcmnixo h marriage at Ann Arbor, Mich.
 Tho bride-tO.bo and her mother have decided that another daugh- ter, Virginia Middleton French, will be EllonS only attendant. Gossips said this solved n voxinR question --whethcr Eileen Gillespie of New York -Antor's first hnncce and El- lens cloGcst frtcnd--Hhould bo in. cludod if tho customary group Of girls attended. Ellon ,it was recall. hed, wns to have been A bridesmaid nt tho Intended wedding Of Aator and Eileen nt St Thomas church In New York February .,
 Lloyd P, GrimHeom Of Syosset, x, r., will be best man, since Vin. cent Astoi, yachting crony of prosidont Roosevelt and half brother of tho groom, Ia cruising on his Nourmhhnl, and probably will not be able Co attend, There Will bo oigh, uAhOrh,
 French, Boston broker who has been ostrnn scd from hlH wife since Ellen whA seven years old, Will give his daughter in marriage. Tho ceremony probably will take loss ihhn half m hour, nftcr which there will bo h reception for tho immediate families, relatives, md Intimate friends nt Mnpleshndo, residence of Amos Tuck French, Sr,, Ellon's grandfather, Astor nnd MIHH Fronch nre un- dorst0od to plnn n short wedding trIp, ho having returned only ro. gently from n thrce- month world cruise Co forget after Miss Oil- Iospio had brokon their brief en- gRRomont. After tho trip tho couple will spend tho summer at "Chctwodo," tho $260,00O Newport mn nsl0n hO bought hA n wedding" present for MisS Gillespie, In tho fnll Aator and his bride may em. bark on . world tour,
 Slight Oversight Newport, R, l., June 2b,-~Uro .--Iilgh society wnH on lls ear to- day, Mary Ellen Tuck rrcnch "ntood up" her flnnoc, John Jacob l Astor, III, nt tho swAnk Sponting Rock Beach,
 00ssipa among the local downS' erH Immediately recalled thnt As' tors engagement Co Mlhs l;lloon Gillespie wns abruptly terminated by the brldc-t0-be, and wondered If what seemed n irivlnl Incident on the surfnco might have lmpl'' cations,
 It wDs learned, however, thnt Mss Fronchs fnlluro Co mcot tho scion Of millions wnH m oversight nnd thnt tho wedding scheduled for Saturday stlll wna very much sched uled,
 Astor waited at Sprontlng Rock two hours, IIu was HO annoyed thnt in departing he almost atcercl his new x2O,000 Rolls R0yco into n neighbors' limousine.
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