Evening star., 1935-02-03
Paul Mellon Is Married
To Mrs. Mary c.. Brown
Son of Former Secretary of the Treasury Weds
in New York-Miss Frances Barbara
Lorenz Bride of Robert Hoffman.

Or. and Mrs. Charles Clinton
Conover Of Kansas City announce the
marriage of their daughter, MRS.
Mary Conover Brown, to Mr.. Paul
Mellon. son of former Secretary OF
the Treasury Andrew w. Mellon OF
Pittsburgh and Mrs. Nora Mellon OF
New York City.
The wedding took place at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. David K. L.
Bruce at Sutton place. New YORK
City, at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning.
Mrs. Bruce is the sister OF the BRIDE
groom. Mr.. Andrew w. Mellon, Mrs.
Nora Mellon, DR.. and Mrs. Charles
Clinton Conover, together with other
members of the immediate families OF
both bride and bridegroom and few
intimate friends, were IN attendance
The ceremony was conducted by the
Rev, Robert w. Searle, D. D.. for
merly pastor of the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church. The bride was
attended by her sister, Mrs. C. s. r.
Bunting of Kansas City, and was
given away by her father. DR.. Como
yer. MIR. David Bruce acted as best
man for MIR. Mellon.
The bride, formerly married to Mr..
Karl Brown of Allentown, Pa, was
divorced in 1888 and has since lived
in New York. She was educated at
the sunset Hill School in Kansas
CITY. Bradford Academy, Haverhll'
Mass. and graduated from Vassar
college in 1926. Subsequently she
studied at the Sorbonne m Paris anu
at Columbia University.
Mr.. Mellon was educated at the
Choate School, Wallingford. Conn.,
and was graduated from Yale with
the class of 1929. He then stuoleo
for two years at Clare College, Cam
bridge. England, where he received a
B A. Honours degree in 1881. AT
Yale. Mr.. Mellon was a member OF
the Senior Society of Scroll and Keys
and of the Chi Psi FRATERNITY. he
was vice chairman of the Yale Dally
News and an editor OF the 1aie
Literary Magazine He has recently
been elected an associate fellow OF
Berkeley Collage, one OF the newly
created units of the college plan al
Vale While at Cambridge he edited
the Lady Claire, his college puhllca-
tion and was a member OF the Pitt
Club. Since his return from England
Mr. Mellon has been engaged In
banking and other business actlvltles
in Pittsburgh, where his family
financial interests are centered. Along
with his cousin, Mr. Richard K. Mel
Ion who is now president OF the
Mellon National Bank, he has been
occupied in the affairs of the bank
and in the study of the other varied
industrial concerns which have been
built up largely through the energies
of his father and Of his uncle, the
late Mr.. Richard B. Mellon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mellon left inmedl-
ately for a wedding trip in Europe.
On their return they will live in Pitts
burgh and at Mr.. Melons farm IN
Upperville, Va
A wedding of interest was that OF
Miss Frances Barbara Lorenz, daugh-
ter of Mrs Eugene Georg Lorenz and
the late MIR. LorenZ, and Mr.. Robert
TAYLOR Hoffman, son of the late Mr
and Mrs. Robert Taylor Hoffman,
which took place last evening at the
home of the brides mother, 1888
Livingston street, Chevy Chase. D. c.
The ceremony was performed in the
living room at 8 o'clock pm. by the
Rev. Thomas G.. Smyth, pastor OF the
Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament.
The arrangements for the wedding
were charming in detail, with palms,
ferns and baskets of early Spring
flowers and roses banked in front OF
the huge fireplace, which formed an
inprovised altar before which the
couple stood and repeated the mar
riage VOWS.
Preceding the ceremony, Miss Mary
Frances Glenn sang 20, Promise Me-
and AT Dawning," accompanied by
Mrs. Dorothy M. Farrior. As the bride
decended the wide stairway of her
home she was met and escorted to the
altar by her brother, Mr.. Eugene H.
Lorenz, who gave her in marriage.
She wore a white satin gown made
on empress lines, with lace bodice and
full lace sleeves with white satin cuffs
to the elbow and forming points over
the hands. The gown had long oval
shaped train, and the long veil of i'm
ported Brussels lace was simply ar
ranged in a cap with halo effect and
caught at the neckline with orange
blossoms. She carried shower bouquet
of brides white roses and lilies of the
valley.
Mrs. Frank NJ Allen, sister of the
bride, was her only attendant, wearing
a blue lace dress made princess style
with long sleeve jacket, large picture
hat of yellow lace and yellow shoes
and carried large bouquet Of yellow
Joanne Hill roses.
Mr.. George H. Hoffman, brother
of the bridegroom, was best man.
A reception followed the ceremony,
when the couple was assisted in re-