- Rita
Hernandez de Alba de
Acosta Stokes Lydig (October 1, 1875 –
October 27, 1929) was an
American socialite named by one
observer as "the most picturesque...
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September 2017. "Miss
Julia Robbins to Wed
Lydig Hoyt" New York
Times (March 25, 1914). Mrs.
Lydig Hoyt, "Woman's
Vital Duty in the Work of Upbuilding...
- Rita de
Acosta Lydig....
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several years.
Callot Soeurs's
greatest American supporter was Rita de
Acosta Lydig who
ordered dozens of
dresses at a time.
According to her
sister Mercedes...
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October 16, 1872,
Sturgis was
married to
Florence Lydig (d. 1922). She was the
daughter of
Philip Mesier Lydig, the
family that
owned the land that subsequently...
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entrepreneur Mercedes de
Acosta (1893–1968), writer,
socialite Rita de
Acosta Lydig (1876–1929),
socialite Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908),...
- Stokes. They
divorced in 1900 and in 1902 she
married secondly Philip Mesier Lydig. They also divorced, and she
became engaged to
Percy Stickney Grant, but...
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botanist Charles Sprague Sargent. Rita
became a
famous beauty known as Rita
Lydig. De
Acosta attended elementary school at the
Convent of the
Blessed Sacrament...
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siblings were the
writers and
socialites Mercedes de
Acosta and Rita de
Acosta Lydig. On June 27, 1903, in Paris, when
Acosta was nineteen,
Brazilian pioneer...
- century, many of
which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita
Lydig,
Luisa Casati,
Billie Burke,
Irene Castle, John Barrymore,
Lillian Gish...
