Monday, Dec. 15, 1924

Reported engaged. Lucio and Sim-plicio Godino, of Manila, P. I., Filipino "Siamese Twins," to "pretty Filipino sweethearts waiting for them at home." A Johns Hopkins surgeon once declared Lucio and Simplicio could be cut asunder and still live. They refused to be parted.

Married. Avery Rockefeller, 20, son of Percy A. Rockefeller of Manhattan, to Miss Anna Mark, daughter of Clayton Mark of Chicago; secretly, a year ago.

Married. Anna Pavlowa, Russian dancer, to M. Andre Darnide, her accompanist.

Married. Olivia James, of Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass., to Chanler Arm strong Chapman, of Manhattan, son of John Jay Chapman (see Page 20); at Boston.

Married. Miss Marion Choate, daughter of Joseph H. Choate, Manhattan financier, to Charles B. Harding, son of J. Horace Harding; in Manhattan. Miss Choate is a grand daughter of the late Joseph H. Choate, famed U. S. Ambassador to England; Mr. Harding a great-grandson of Jay Cooke, Civil War financier.

Sued for Divorce. Ted (Edward Harris) Coy, famed Yale football leader, by Sophie D'Antignac Meldrim Coy, daughter of General P. W. Meldrim, quondam President of the American Bar Association; in Paris. Said the N. Y. Daily Mirror, gum-chewers sheetlet: "If the romance of Jeanne Eagles [Rain star] and Ted Coy still thrives, there is good news for them."

Died. William C. Reick, 60, one-time owner of the New York Sun, New York Evening Sun; in Manhattan after a lung illness.

Divorced. Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks Evans, onetime wife of Douglas Fairbanks, cinema star, from James Evans, Pittsburgh broker.

Died. William Nelson McClintock, 21, heir to many millions; in Chicago, of typhoid fever. In a few days he was to have been married. Ushers became pallbearers; on the door of the house there was a bride's bouquet of pink roses; the cleric who was to have performed the wedding ceremony preached the funeral sermon. Owing to the similarly sudden deaths of other McClintocks, Chicagoans declare that a curse rides the family's wealth.

Died. Mrs. Edward H. Smith-Wilkinson, "most expensively dressed woman in the world"; in London, following an operation. She had thousands of gowns. When she traveled, she carried such vast luggage, feed porters so prodigiously, that her presence in hotel or railroad station meant that all others, no matter what their quality, must carry their own bags. One night she entered the Pre-Catalan, fashionable Paris nightclub, wearing $2,000,000 worth of gems. On her head was a crown which had belonged to the Princess Xenia of Russia. About her neck were the famed Shrewsbury pearls, said once to have been the property of the British museum. To her gown were sewed 400 real diamonds.

Died. Gene Stratton Porter, 56, lovelist and lecturer, author of Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, Michael O'Halloran; in Los Angeles, from injuries received when her motor collided with a street car.

Died. Cipriano Castro, 62, one-time dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around.

In 1899 he became dictator. In 1908, having long suffered from a serious illness, he left the country to undergo an operation in Germany. While on board ship off shore, Juan Vicente Gomez, acting head of the Government who has ever since been President, sent him a message telling him not to return-- which injunction he always obeyed.

Died. Brian G. Hughes, bank president and practical joker, in Monroe, N. Y. Once he entered a ten cent tomcat in a national show, won a blue ribbon.