A few more before I call it a night:
di Bassano, Princess (Marguerite Chapin) was a member of Springfield's first family. In the modern penthouse atop her Renaissance palace, her exhibits include the work of her daughter, Lelia Caetani. In Paris,with Mrs. John W. Garrett, she opened a gallery for famous painters; in Rome, a lottery for struggling artists. Her husband composed the opera Hypatia, sung in Basel this winter. April, 1937
de Borchgrave d'Altena, Countess Camille (Ruth Snyder Reilly) is the daughter of Mr. Thomas Alexander Reilly, of Philadelphia, and a niece of Ambassador Charlemagne Tower. The Countess was a bride last week. She has had the distinction of being presented at the courts of Belgium, England, Germany, and St. Petersburg. The bridegroom belongs to a distinguished Belgium family and is gentleman-in-waiting to King Leopold. October 1, 1904
de Polignac, Princesse Edmond (Winnaretta Singer), that famous and formidable daughter of the Singer who so fortuitously sold us sewing machines, passed through New York from her visit to Florida, where she has been surveying the fantastic and magic real estate activities of her brother, Paris Singer. She is one of the few Americans to have accomplished the rare feat of establishing a salon. Much of the new music we have heard in the public concert halls of New York has had its premiere in the private music room of her Paris home. Many artists are grateful for the eager impulse her patronage has afforded them. April 1, 1926
Cantacuzene, Prince and Princess Michael (Julia Dent Grant) were married at "Beaulieu," Newport, the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Potter Palmer, on Monday by the picturesque ceremony of the Greek church and on Tuesday, at All Saint's chapel, in accordance with the laws of Rhode Island. Mrs. U.S. Grant, the bride's grandmother, gave a magnificent necklace of pearls, with pendants of diamonds and emeralds, presented to her when she and General Grant visited Mexico in their trip around the world, nearly a quarter of a century ago. September 27, 1899
Cantacuzene, Prince and Princess Michael (Clarissa Curtis) In the quaint little church at Nahant, capable of holding less than three hundred people, and where generations of the Curtis family have worshipped and been given in marriage, Clarissa Curtis became a princess. The bridegroom is Prince Michael Cantacuzene, Count Speranski, of Russia, whose mother was Miss Julia Dent Grant, a granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant. The estates of the Cantacuzenes are in the Ukraine, and their magnificent old dwelling there has been destroyed and the lands confiscated. The family dates back to the Emperor Cantacuzene of Constantinople, who reigned in 1293. July 20, 1921
Cunard, Lady (Maud Burke) Born an American, Lady Cunard is still an emerald in the rough. Or perhaps, one shoud say, that she still exhibits the persistence suggested by her real name, Maud, more than that of the polished "Emerald," to which she answered in London. Her ladyship has been trying to get back to England. After achieving a reservation, Emerald Cunard has pursued the shipping agents to find out whether the boat has linen or cotton sheets, because if they are only cotton she will sleep between her own linen from here to Lisbon. A second complication arises in the presumed hour of sailing from Baltimore. Lady Cunard finds herself on the horns of a dilemma pointing either to a night on the boat at dock, because the Baltimore hotels are crowded, or, more horrible still, an 8 a.m. train from New York. Still a third problem is a guarantee that she will be able to take her sapphire clock through the Portuguese customs. November, 1942
