The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1922, Page 9

‘The Goulds ‘Most Romantic Family in Ameria George J. Gould’s Marriage to Mrs. Vera Sinclair His Second ‘‘Surprise’’—Three of His Children, Edith, George Jr. and Kingdon, ‘“‘Eloped’’—Romance Also. Marked Marriages ot Marjorie, Vivien and J.y. Ey By Marguerite Mooers Marshall, PT Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Company. HE most romantic family in America? Surely there's only one answer to the question — {t's the family of George J. z Gould, son and heir ¢f old Jay Gould and his millions. It ts George J.'s second surprise marriage, the news of which has just reached New York from Paris, that @alls attention once more to the num- ber of love matches to the souare inch fm one of America's best known and most frequently headlined families. Wor when Mr. Gould wed in lake wood, N. J., Mrs, Vera Sinclair, aid to be a beautiful actress who ap- eared in several New York produc- tions, this middle-aged father of @even children merely proved that the spirit of romance is as alive in him to-day as it was when, a8 America's eligible bachelor, he courted and lovely Edith Kingdon, an actress fm the Daly Company, thirty ago! Like father like children! There were three elopements among George Gould's children in the short gpace of three years—from 1917 to 1920—and the cunaway couples are all Ing happy ever after! > Of his two daughters who didn’t lope, one tecame the bride of an English Lord and the heroine of an international romance, while the other wed a fine young American, son and heir of Philudelphia’s most prominent family—and these love matches are atill prospering. Truly, Cupid must be the patron saint of the Gould family! And father George J. began it all When his first wife suddenly dropped dead on the golf links at Georgian Court Jast autumn, in the full autum- nal glory of her beauty, New York recalled the romantic circumstances surrounding her union with the son of the ratlway magnate. Edith Kingdon, according to con- porary accounts, was a poor girl Bis middle of the eighteen-eighties, an orphan and the only support of her widowed mother. She lived in Brooklyn, and, after small parts in travelling companies, joined the Daly players. On the night of her first New York hit she was changing her dress when udience insisted that she answer Bu Throwing a lace wrap about her shoulders she peeped, blushing. around the edge of the drop curtain and smiled her thanks at the audience. From his seat with his father in their proscenium box, young George Gould caught the twinkle in the actress's lovely dark eyes and fell hopelessly in love. ‘The courtship was swift and silent, It was commonly said that the young man’s parents objected to the match, But Cupid won the day, and one morning the matchmaking mammas of America were horrified to learn that ee - —_——— _ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1922, Seep pure a . the wealthiest end ,most eligible bachelor in the country was married to an actress, Mr. Gould and his new bride have taken a place in Invernesshire, Scot- land, and it is not likely New York will have a chance to meet them be- fore late autumn, But when they re- turn to Fifth Avenue, or to Georgian Court, or to the bride's own beautiful home on Manursing Island, at Rye, N. Y,, society will wateh with inter- est the triumphant flowering of an- other typical Gould romarice, George J. Gould's two sons, George J. jr. and Kingdon, married as swift- ly and surprisingly as father himself Their weddings took place within three days of each other in 1917—Just five years ago this month. Kingdon chose as his bride Miss Annunziata Lucci, a pupil at the Art Students’ League and formerly tutor in Italian to his sister. His brother George was his best man and the only member of the Gould famlly Present at the ceremony. New York was still talking about how the youn) generation of Goulds was following the call of the heart when, three days later, came the news that George J, jr. had eloped with Laura M. Carter, a dancing teacher, of Woonsocket, R. -, and had married her in Philadelphia. His marriage was quite as much of a sur- prise to the Gould family as was his brother Kingdon's By the time the senior Goulds and the rest of us haa gotten over the shock of these two elopements—be. cause apparently, even if you marry romantically yourself, you're still a trifle startled wnen your children Prove chips of the old block—by the time the boys were living happy ever after and all that, we read one morn- ing of the third Gould elopement! It oO was that of Miss Eudith, dark-eyed debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould, to a boyish adorer Mrs. George J. SOUL Sinclair © Kadel x Lord *¥ Lady DECIES Anthony J DREXEL, Jr. Mr * Mrs Carroll L. WAINWRIGICE Jur ernerone <9 not roman {art student, Carroll Wainwright. e slipped out of the Gould home it Fifth Avenue and @7th Street one ate May morning in 1920, met her lover a few blocks away, entrained vith him to Philadelphia, motored from that city to Elkton, Md., and was married without any member of ter family being present. According to thelr own admission, is Romeo and Jullet of Fifth Avenue “eloped to avert a tragedy"— ‘oparation for a few months. Their iarents planned to have them spend the summer in different localities. The mutch, apparently, is as felicl- ous as It was impulsive. If we may judge by the negative est of absence from the divorce court, all in George J. immediate family seem to have succeeded. Although the love \ffairs of his two older aaughters, Marjorie and Vivien, were leas sen- ational than those of their brothers and sisters, they each had their lavor of romance. Marjorie, who at the time of her marriage looked like a younger edi- tion of ‘er mother's famous brunette beauty, wed a good-looking, olean- cut, sport-loving young Amertoan, Anthony J. Drexel jr., scion of the famous Philadelphia family, | ‘This was twelve years ago, and there are several little Drexels and, apparently, peace and prosperity in their home. Vivien, the second Gould daughter, was that favorite Mgure in American romance—the bride of a British noble- man, Lord Decies, or John Graham Hope de la Poer Horsely Beresford, to give him his full tits, She was mar- ried shortly after her sister Marjorie, and she and her husband have a charming home. Their names occur frequently in the cabled accounts of the doings of London society, Another son of George J, Gould, Jay Gould, qualified for matrimonial happiness when, in 1911, he wed beautiful young New York girl, Mla Annie Douglas Graham, Romantic interest is added to this match by the fact that the former Miss Graham is marriages Gould's a descendant of the royal! house of Hawuli, her mother, before her mar- riage, being known as Princess Kaikilant Gloria Goul of the family, the youngest member js not yet out of school, lows tn footsteps of her And now crown all the others, the Indian summer, orge J. Gould, peret y usking what ts the mest family in Amerioat The Goulds—that's at asad | | ae me ene i ee