Born. To Dr. and Mrs. Lyon G. Tyler, a son; in Charles City, Va. Dr. Tyler, aged 72, son of John Tyler, tenth U. S. President, is President Emeritus of William and Mary College. Mrs. Tyler, aged 37, is his second wife. U. S. President Tyler was 63 when Lyon was born, 70 when a daughter was born," said friends.

Engaged. Miss Grace B. Cortelyou, daughter of George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt (1907-1909), to one Jacob F. Weintz, of Evansville, Ind.

Engaged. Winslow B. Van Devanter, 28, son of Mr. Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, of the U. S. Supreme Court, to Miss Isabel Earling of Milwaukee.

Engaged. Jack A. Thomas, one-time Literary Editor of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, to Miss Josephine Scott, Manhattan debutante.

Married. John S. Martin, Literary Editor of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, to Miss Emilie Bushnell, Manhattan debutante; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. By Alma Rubens, cinema actress, Daniel C. Goodman, head of the Cosmopolitan producers; in Los Angeles. She charged cruelty, said he struck her on the head while honeymooning in 1923.

Divorced. Gloria Swanson Somborn, cinema actress, by Herbert Somborn, her second husband; in Los Angeles. He charged desertion.

Divorced. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime (1909) All-American football fullback and Yale captain, by Sophie D'Antignac Meldrini Coy; in Paris. She charged desertion.

Divorced. Kathleen Howard, famed contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, from Lawyer K. Baird, onetime associate with Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Frank A. Vanderlip, Alvin W. Krech, in the short-lived Century Opera Company; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Pauline Frederick, famed cinema vampire, from one C. A. Rutherford, Seattle physician; in Los Angeles. She charged desertion. This is her third divorce, the other two being from Frank M. Andrews (Manhattan architect) and Willard Mack (actor and playwright).

Divorced. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor, cinema actress, whose engagement to Pugilist Jack Dempsey has been long reported) from one Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, in Philadelphia. She charged cruel and barbarous treatment. Said the Daily Mirror, Manhattan, gum-chewers' sheetlet: "It now appears as if a romance started when Jack was a gangling youth and Estelle was a giggling girl would lead to wedding bells."

Died. George W. Bellows, 42 famed artist; in Manhattan, of appendicitis. (See ART.)

Died. Edward M. Morgan, 69, famed Postmaster of New York City; in Manhattan, of acute appendicitis. Aged 17, he entered the postal service as a letter-carrier. Aged 51, he was appointed Postmaster by President Roosevelt.

Died. Mrs. Mary Anne Rudd, 82, sister of John Davison Rockefeller; in Cleveland, after a 20 years' illness. Mr. Rockefeller did not attend the funeral. He, the oldest, is the sole survivor of three boys and three girls.