Evening star., 1935-02-14
|DUKE GIRL BEGINS
HONEYMOON TRIP
Cromwell and Bride Sail for
Mediterranean After Sur.
prise Wedding.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the hSSOClAteQ freSS.
NEW YORK, February 14.-Amer-
icas richest girl, Doris Duke, was
married yesterday TO James II. r.
Cromwell, Knickerbocker scion, infla-
zionist and writer on political-eco-
nomic topics.
They were bound today, aboard the
italian liner Conte di Savoia, for a
honeymoon in Italy and Egypt.
The tall, blond, pretty daughter Of
the late tobacco magnate. James Bu-
| chanan Duke, is %.
Her husband is SO, the son by her
first marriage Of Mrs. e. T. Stotes-
bury of Philadelphia. In 1928, he
was divorced from the former Miss
Delphine Dodge of the Detroit auto
! mobile family. whom he married in
1920.
Wedding Proves Surprise.
Although the names of Miss Duke
and Cromwell have been linked for
| several years in society gossip columns
and although they've been together
quite frequently Of late in Newport,
Palm Beach and in New York's May
fair circles-the wedding was a sur
| prise.
The ceremony-at 1890 am. at the
Duke mansion, on the corner Of Fifth
avenue and Seventy-eighth street
was but another example Of Miss
! Dukes desire to eschew the limelight
At the request of her physician, DR..
Richard A. Hoffman, Deputy City
Clerk Philip A. Hines went to the
Duke home early and issued the
| license.
Half an hour after Hines visit,
| Miss Duke and Cromwell were married
| by Supreme Court Justice Burt Jay
| Humphrey, friend Of the Duke fam
/ lily. Miss Duke, who has never
f1aunted her millions. was adamant
| against an ostentatious church we'd
ding.
Witnesses Few.
The small group of witnesses in
! cluded the mothers of the bride and
bridegroom, Mrs. Stotesbury and Mrs.
James B. Duke; DR.. Hoffman and
former Supreme Court Justice Nor
man S. Dixie, family friend: Walker
Inman, Miss Dukes half brother, and
Eaton Cromwell. who served his
brother as best man.
The newlyweds left soon after the
wedding to board the Conte di Savoia.
| Steamship officials tried in vain to
keep their sailing secret. Although
the bride kept to her cabin. Cromwell
chatted with reporters for several
minutes.
They met six years ago at Bar
Harbor. he disclosed.
Was it a case Of love at first
sight?" he was asked.
1T certainly was"
Were you engaged for long? Isn't
the marriage sudden?"
Yes, it was sudden. We were never
really engaged. Neither of US believed
in formal engagements"
Says Wife Nervous.
Cromwell excused his wife, saying
she was too nervous to leave her cabin.
Seclusion has been the lot in life
for the Duke heireSs.
Simplicity was the rule Of her child
hood. decreed by her father. She was
privately tutored, mostly at the vast
| Duke farms near Somerville, N. j.
In Summers she lived quietly at the
Newport plane, Rough Point. Part of
every year she has passed at Lynne
wood, retreat near Myers Park, N. C.
Only in the last two years or SO has
she frequented' night clubs and So
ciety's bright spots Then, more often
than not. she was squired by her half
brother.
Worked in Banking House.
Cromwell, we'll known amateur
sportman, is the grandson of the late
Charles Thorne Cromwell. eminent
| lawyer Of generation ago. Educated
at the University of Pennsylvania. he
worked for time in the Drexel bank
ing house. After his marriage to
Miss Dodge he was associated in the
sale Of Dodge Brothers Co. after the
death of Horace Dodge.
With the Florida boom he tried to
promote a replica of Biarritz on the
coast below Palm Beach. This col
lapsed with the break of the boom.
Cromwell turned to the study Of
economics and wrote frequent books
and articles. In Wall Street he is re-
garded as one of the silver inflationists
partial to Father Charles E. Coughlin's
ideas on economics.