Music: Mrs. Carpenter's Dot

In Cambridge, Mass, this week. Composer John Alden Carpenter, 56, and Ellen Waller Borden, 47, were married. Composer Carpenter's first wife, Decorator Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, died less than two years ago. Mrs. Borden, whose Cambridge aunt gave her her wedding, was divorced from Oilman-Stockbroker-Sportsman John Borden. The wedding was a quiet affair but in Chicago, where both composer and his new wife live, it was loudly publicized, set several events in motion.

When Mrs. Borden announced her engagement she said that the wedding must wait until $100,000 had been raised by Chicago's...

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