"A Lot of Fun"

An airplane from Reno to Chicago one day last week contained among its passengers the President's second son Elliott. Elliott had just been divorced from Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, whom he married in January 1932, and by whom his son William Donner was born last November. Visiting in Chicago when he arrived were Mrs. Joseph Boynton Googins of Fort Worth, Tex., and" her dark-haired daughter, Ruth Josephine.

Next day Elliott met his sister Anna Dall coming from New York by train. They went to Miss Googins' hotel, to take her and her mother to A Century of Progress. Reporters swarmed about. Was he going to marry Miss Googins? When? Where?

Elliott Roosevelt, 22, drew himself up haughtily. "Am I to be prevented from enjoying the company of worthy friends because of a gossiping public?" he asked. "Please leave me alone. Let me go to the Fair and enjoy the freedom I'm entitled to, and if I want Miss Googins' company, please don't embarrass her by asking when she's going to marry me. Even if I wanted to, I haven't had a chance to ask her."

Actually, Elliott had had two chances to ask Miss Googins. He met her in Dallas last March while on his way West to manage a Los Angeles-Agua Caliente air line controlled by Mrs. Isabella Greenway, long-time friend of the Roosevelt family. She is a bobbed-haired, brunette Junior Leaguer of 23, whose late father was head of the Swift packing plant at Fort Worth. She had been invited to a dinner party given for Elliott. He drove her back to Fort Worth, went to see her once before proceeding to Nevada to establish residence for his divorce.

In Chicago, Elliott had another interview with the Press on the subject of Miss Googins. "I don't affirm or deny anything. My father is entirely familiar with all my future plans. The Roosevelt family is a closed corporation. When one decides to do something, all the others get behind him. I will be in Chicago until noon Saturday in any event," he concluded. ''At that time I will announce my plans for the next 24 hours."

By that time, Miss Googins & mother were in Burlington. Iowa, at the home of her uncle, a banker named George C. Swiler. Mr. Swiler, on Saturday, got a marriage license for the young couple and the fateful news was at last out. The night before Elliott and Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair coat. Five hundred neighbors gaped through the shrubbery, but only the bride's family and Mrs. Dall attended the ceremony. Police arrested a Chicago cameraman, broke his plates when he tried to photograph the wedding.

"Of course I'm thrilled about marrying Elliott!" chirped the bride.

"Chicago was not the place for an announcement," chortled the groom to reporters. "Besides, we were having a lot of fun."

His mother was somewhere en route home from Campobello Island, N. B., but Elliott said he had talked "frequently" by long distance telephone with his father at the White House. "Father was very, very jovial," he said.

To the protection of her "favorite brother" sprang sprightly, blonde Mrs. Dall. "Give the couple a break now," she urged. "The marriage is over and they are no longer news."

"Yes," added Elliott, preparing to leave with his new wife for Fort Worth, "after all, a man's got to have some privacy."

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