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Married. Lew Cody, 39, (real name Louis Cote), cinema actor; to Mabel Normand, 28, cinema actress, suddenly† by the county recorder at Ventura, Calif...
...Whom did Mabel Normand marry...
...Engaged. Mabel Morgan Satterlee, granddaughter, of J. Pierpont Morgan; to Francis Abbott Ingalls Jr., grandson of David H. Houghtaling, late tea merchant...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
...spite of French law and Mongolian folklore, Mabel Bailey (the Countess de Lesdain) maintained that the wedding ceremony was carried through in perfect good faith by both parties. Therefore the court declared marriage was "putative." It is null in law but valid in equity. Daughter Pauline is legitimate...