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Countess Laszlo Szechenyi (née Gladys Vanderbilt): " In late Summer, at Newport, I lost a pearl necklace valued at $30,000. Last week newspapers told how a Scandinavian maid found my necklace in the gutter, returned it, received $100 reward. The pearls were given to me when I married Count Szechenyi, who is now Hungarian Minister at Washington...
...artist, and portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's housekeeper, mistress and second wife, and of Titus, his son by his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburg. There are also the Man with a Beard and the Portrait of a Man, of the Marquand collection, the Oriental, given by Mr. Vanderbilt, and two portraits lent by J. P. Morgan. Practically all of these are signed " Rembrandt f." (abbreviation for fecit-made), with the dates, ranging from 1633 to 1665. Most of them were listed by Dr. Wilhelm Bode, famed Berlin critic and director of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, in his exhaustive...
...engagement of Prince George, youngest brother of the Prince of Wales, to Miss Grace Vanderbilt, daughter of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt of Manhattan, was all but announced when the good ship Rumor sank in the sea of officialdom...
...secretary to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt said: " If there had been an engagement I would have heard about...
There was a blare of trumpets at Westbury, L. I., and John Wingate Weeks, Secretary of War, appeared before a crowd of 10,000 people. Others present were Mrs. Rene La Montagne, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, II, Major General Mason M. Patrick, Harry Payne Whitney, John S. Phipps, Brigadier General Hugh H. Drum. It was a gay assemblage, in holiday attire...