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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1911)
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Here we have Edith, the very beautiful daughter- of the - Oren vllle Kanea,' of Tuxedo Park, and George F. Baker. Jr., the only aoa .1 J .V Mias Dorothy Kane, Who Kept a, Watchful Eye on Youns? Mr. Baker While ller Sitter Was Away. and heir of George F. Baker, Br., the multi-millionaire banker. . , For love, Mis Kane went round the world and back again, and is , now going round again on ber wed ding trip I It Is a delightful tale or hearts, millions, beauty and wealth. Two years ago Tuxedo Park, that exceedingly exclusive colony in 'he Ramapo Hills, was shaken to Its foundations. It had a delectable morsel of gossip to roll under Us tongue. Edith Kane, the supposed- ' ly heartless daughter of the house of Kane, acknowledged to being in love with Mr. Baker, heir to a hun dred millions, and chief bachelor of the colony. The Grenvllle Kanes are charter members of Tuxedo Park. Mr. Kane and Mr. Pierre Lorillard originated v the idea of starting a country resort where their children might grow up far from the city. They organised " a company, and tor all these years the most rigid rules have been o'b served. When George F. Baker, Sr., the president of the First National Bank, came to live at Tuxedo, he was received with open arms. George, Jr., Immediately Joined iu the sports of the young people, and very early In the game showed a preference for blondes! Bo far. so goodl Time 'pawed, the boy became a man, the glrli grew up magically. Papa Baker Inciden tally added to his millions until he became known as one of the seven men who own the United States! J. Tlerpont Morgan is another! When young Baker returned from Harvard he was twenty-three years old and one of the biggest matri monial prises in New York society. Mothers were overjoyed to receive lilm. Daughters looked on him and found htm good. But George loved all the girls so much he could not select onel As the years passed, the Bakers, and Tuxedo as a whole, decided that George would never marry- Mama Baker rejoiced as every year closed and George was left unmated. The years which left George, Jr., a bachelor were dealing mout de lightfully with the girls of the Kane family. Now the Kane family has always been an Institution in this tight little resort of the Ramapos, tuelr love affairs closely watched, their beauty gloated over. When Edith came out the was the second of six vlBters a bril liant marriage was predicted. Sh was a brllliiant success socially and opera hostesses literally fought with each other to get her for their prlte beauty, tine turned a cold but beautiful shoulder to all lovers. -What can Kdlta be waiting for?" asked society. There was young Malcolm tiloane, ber own age, and heir to the fabulous Bioane-Vanderbllt fortunes; he was mad about her. And there were others. Even Mrs. Kane despaired. And who can wonder) For there were plenty more at home Just like Edith! And now we come to the Wluter of nineteen nine. We find MUs Kane, more ethereally beautiful than ever, aged twenty-four, and the II ' i Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr., Who Encircled the Globe for the Sake of the Man She Loved. cleverest girl whip - and all-round sportswoman in New York o:ty.. She drives a tour-ln-hand as non chalantly as she motors her (O-horse-power motor car. . Just around the corner we find Mr. Baker, good looking, popular, ' STAGE dauces in which jjhe Is surrounded with 'fire effects were the attractive specialty of MIes Ida Fuller in this country and abroad until her career seemed to ! be ended by a long and serious ill ness. How she suddenly regained her strength, and at one bound re-. trieved her former position as a dancer, all at the command of a dead genius, makes one of the weirdest tales of real life in these times. While Miss Fuller was Elowly con valescing in a Western sanitarium she said one day to a visitor: "Yes, I feel that I shall yet dance again. But I don't know whether 1 shall revive any of my old suc cesses. I don't even know what the world Is doing on the state. I cxtremuy""10'80"11 ,a Here she ceased speaking, seem ing like one who bad gone into a trance. But the next day she showed great Improvement. Inside of a week she left the sanitarium a well woman, filled with energy and ambition. She went directly to a storage house, and from an rid trunk took a shabby roll of manuscript, read it thn and there, and within another few weeks had produced with great success her new spectacular panto mime caUed "The Dance in Hades" a sketch pantomime built on the old classic of "Orpheus and E.iry dice," the episode in which the bero iue is followed by the lover within the gates of the inferno. - Here, amid the flames, watched by the three-headed dog that guards tbe iurernal gates. Miss Fuller dances at her dead author's command. It was that same command a voice from the dead which caused the break in her speech to her hos pital visitor. "In my extremity" and this Is her strange story: At tne height of Ida Fuller's European career as a dancer, Rich ard Wyeth, the gifted sou of an American mll'lonalre, was In the final stages ot slavery to drugs. But when the madness induced by morphine and the trengy caused by cocaine were upon him he wrote n n ft ir5v n n . ' twjh'fi' ;';; r Vty '11 I ift ill 1 If' it devotedly attached to his parents, and still the big nsh in the matri monial npnd, and Just ten years older than Miss Kane. . . At the Hallowe'en ball,' two years afro, the miracle happened! The cold-hearted belle, having turned playlets and pantomimes, embodying his strange fancies. In his home in Philadelphia, in his apartment at Passy, near Paris,, in his house at Shepherd's Bush' In London, when the fiends assailed him he wrote, and what be wrote was as wild as those frenzies, aa terrible aj the visions .wrought by bis drug-tortured nerves. He met Ida Fuller when London and Paris were marvel ing at the embroideries she wrought with hu man figures amidst the illusions of fire. One day the quaking, white faced man who had lived In the same apartment bouse, called upon ber in London. "I have written playlet for you.' He thrust a roll of soiled white paper Into her band. ' Miss Fuller looked politely Indlf- Orpheu. Rescuing Hi. Bride from the Imp. of Hades, in Mis. V'.vl "i 'is-u. "i-:' i'Vtt; (. te?n, .".74. . . t .v S away dosens of partners, devoted herself to the prise bachelor; and he fairly burbled with glee and Joy! At the New Toar ball, the engagement wlas practically ac knowledged. As time passed, the two lovers were constantly I n each other's com pany. When Mlsa Kane tooled ber coach along the mountain roads, Mr. Baker occu pied the box seat, society's surest proof of an en garement When Spring ' came, a rift ap peared in the lute; love's sweet dream seemed to become curdled. Edith and George finally did not speak as they passed by! Oh, the gossip! Suddenly Miss Kane sailed tor Europe and from there went round the world. George was left bereft. No one knew what had caused the trouble, but Tuxedo finally decided that the Baker family bad caused the parting. Wo ' ferent. The unfortunate man read r her glance. , 0C- T .. .. V,KX "You don't believe in it." he said, ift". Ssf - - V" "but remember, sometime, in your la- . ' e&iremuy, you win yruuucn u, auu J? t It will be the greatest success of Ida j yu- Ni ' "' v f your career." She never saw him i. ", t - ,' ' , ' v ' again. Three months later -she read pii- J'" 't v " - " " ' of the sudden death of the doomed ruuer as . ' 1 " v man in his native land. She sent a . -1""! & vy; - cable of sympathy to his wife and Eurydice. , - $ ' yi in her busy, successful, crowded life - it','' forgot the man with the chalk- V' ' . white face and the strange, strained - r - " . t ; t eyes. The soiled roll of paper lay J f in the bottom of an old trunk in the - - " . attlo of her London home, forgotten. , Five years .later, "in her ex- ' s ' tremity.". she remembered it at fV TfS ' 1 , " the dead author's command. And - 5 v : ; ' p it has done for her all that ho t . - 1 r promised It would. " . " . , - ' It seems that, having had their Bon to themselves for ten years. Mama and Papa Baker could not reconcile themselves to a daughter-in-law. As Sister Queenle said: "If George had married a year or two after bis graduation from Harvard it would have been different". When Miss Kane realized bow bitterly the Bakers felt she showed her capability for sacrifice. Did she not say: "Never will I marry you until your family want me. I love you . too much to cause any trouble between you all"? And so, for love, she went around the world. While she was away, Sister Doro thy, another Kane beauty, played peacemaker. Every week she wrote letters to the traveler keeping her ' posted as to the behavior of George, Jr., and the attitude of the Baker family. Mr. Baker was distressed, Indeed, during the first month . of Miss Kane's absence, but toward the end he began to sit up and take notice. As has been already noted, 'Mr. Baker was devoted to blondes. ' One of the prettiest blondes in seven , kingdoms, Miss Margaret .Baxter, a sister of Mrs. Tevls-McKee, arrived in Tuxedo. Mr. Baker drowned his sorrow in Miss Baxter's company. They even had their plcturea taken together, on the lake in , front of the club house. . Sister Dorothy sent this picture to the traveler, and thetraveler hastily turned her face homeward. FulW. Dance ' Did she not say; to herself: "If I cannot marry a Baker, no other girl shall!"? She arrived in Tuxedo In time to drive Mr. William Hoffman's four-in-hand at the Tuxedo Horse Show. Mr. Baker was present, and all at once bis heart bounded and he knew that ao one else could take Miss Kane's place! The Kanes made formal announce ment of the engagement a few , weeks later. The Bakers expressed themselves delighted, and gave the happy couple a big dinner and sev eral valuable gifts. . On Qctober 15 Miss Kane and Mr. Baker were married in the little church In Tuxedo. The Bakers lavished Jewels on the bride an I checks on the bridegroom. Mlsj Dorothy, the peacemaker, was mal. of honor. It was a beautiful wed ding, and there was a very Jolly re ception afterward. ' The bride and groom, both look ing Idiotically happy, motored away from the Park bound tor a trip around the world! Yes, the bride longed to take the groom " to all the places she had 'visited. In her previous Journey! Together they will visit Egypt, the Durbar in India, the Flowery King ' dom and - more Interesting places than can be mentioned! For love the happy bridegroom consents to take this long pilgrim .age! When they return they are to , live in Tuxedo, where they first met - the little but powerful god. Love! 1 J v