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26 L SOCIETY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941

C. V. WHITNEY WEDS ELEANOR SEARLE

Sportsman, Arts Patron and Business Leader Marries Singer in Plymouth, Ohio

RELATIVES AT CEREMONY

Nuptials Performed in Church Founded in 1840 by Bride's Great-Grandfather

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

PLYMOUTH, Ohio, June 18-Miss Eleanor Searle, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George James Searle of Plymouth, was married here today to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, of New York. The marriage, whish is the third for Mr. Whitney, comes as a surprise to society as no formal announcement had been made of the engagement of the couple, nor had their wedding plans been revealed. The wedding took place in the First Lutheran Church, which was founded by the bride's great-grandfather, Felix Fenner, in 1840. The Rev. Richard C. Wolf performed the ceremony.

The bride, who is widely known as a singer, wore  a grown of pink organza made with molded bodice and full skirt over taffeta of matching shade, and with dropped shoulders and very full sleeves caught at the wrists with bands of narrow pink ribbon. She wore a veil of rose-patterned net and carried a bouquet of stephanotis and sweetheart roses. The bride was attended by her niece and godchild, Katherine Eleanor Searle, who wore a frock of ciel blue organdy touched with pink and carried delphiniums and sweetheart roses.

Mr. Whitney's best man was Roscoe H. Channing Jr. of New York, with whom the bridegroom has been associated in mining interests for many years.

On Wedding trip in West

After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was given at the home of Dr. and Mrs. George James Searle Jr., brother and sister-in-law of the bride, in Mansfield, Ohio. Later in the afternoon the couple left for a wedding trip in the West.

The bride attended Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., and later studied art, music and languages at Columbia University in New York. She continued her musical studies with Mme. Ella Toedt of New York, and also under Marie Guy Zenatello, operatic coach. She has appeared on the concert stage and during the Summer of 1939 was a soprano with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. She has been heard also over the radio as an NBC artist and a member of the Madrigal Singers. Mrs. Whitney has specialized in oratorio and church music

BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM IN SUPRISE WEDDING
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Left to right, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and his bride's mother, Mrs. George J. Searle Sr. 

Yale Graduate, Class of '22

Mr. Whitney was graduated from Yale in 1922 and became associated in business with Mr. Channing, internationally known mining engineer. The two developed the now famous Flin Flon mine of the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company in Manitoba, of which Mr. Channing is now president and Mr. Whitney chairman of the board. 

Mr. Whitney recently was reelected board chairman of Pan American Airways, which he helped