The engagement has been announced by Mr. and Mrs. Hart Newman of New Orleans of their daughter. Miss Virginia Louise Newman, to Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., of Philadelphia, Vice President of the Gimbel Brothers stores in New York and Philadelphia.
Miss Newman is a graduate of Wellesley. Mr. Gimbel studied at La Villa School, Lausanne, Switzerland, and was graduated from Yale in 1919. He served during the war as a Second Lieutenant in the Third Regiment Field Artillery.
His sister is Mrs. Fridolyn Fleisher, and Richard Gimbel, another Vice President of Gimbel Brothers, is his brother.
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