Engaged. Miss Elsie Kipling, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, famed British author, to Captain George Bambridge, M.C., Attache to the British Embassy in Madrid.

Engaged. Harry P. Davison, 26, son of the late H. P. Davison, famed philanthropist-financier and Chairman of the American Red Cross during the War, to Miss Anne Stillman, 22, daughter of Mrs. James A. Stillman of Pleasantville, N. Y.

Married. Robert Gould Shaw, II, son of Lady Astor's first husband, and Miss Hilda Burt, actress; in Carthage, N. C.

Married. Miss Peggv Hopkins Joyce, 31, actress, and (Swedish) Count Gosta Morner, 24, President of the Stomatol Company of America (toothpaste manufacturers); in Atlantic City. Previous husbands of the Countess have been Everett Archer, Sherbourne Hopkins, Jr., Philbrick Hopkins, J. Stanley Joyce.

Divorced. Lysiane Bernhardt Verneuil (granddaughter of the late Sarah Bernhardt) and Louis Verneuil, playwright; on grounds of "mutual fault," at Paris.

Died. Esther Concha de Tamayo, wife of Dr. Don Jose Luis Tamayo, President of Ecuador; at Guayaquil.

Died. Sir Mortimer Durand, 74, onetime (1903-06) British Ambassador to Washington; at Minehead, Somerset. He was succeeded by the late Lord Bryce.

Died. Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stockton (retired), 78, onetime (1898-1900) head of the Naval War College; in Washington.