Monday, Feb. 02, 1925
Married. Miss Loretta Hines, daughter of Edward Hines, Chicago lumber millionaire, to one Howell Howard of Dayton; in Chicago, at the Cathedral of the Holy Name. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra played the wedding march. Cardinal Munclelein officiated. Tito Schipa, famed tenor, sang. The Hines family had caused the interior of the Cathedral to be done over in red velvet, had filled in with flowers, had spent, it was reported, more than $100,000, The arrival and departure of 2,000 guests was facilitated by lines of policemen stationed to keep back a great multitude of idlers.
Married. Lawrence ("Larry") Semon, 35, cinema comedian, to Miss Dorothy Dwan (real name Dorothy Smith), 18, cinema actress; in Manhattan.
Married. J. Howard Berry, famed University of Pennsylvania athlete, all-American halfback in 1915, one time member of the N. Y. Giants, to Mrs. Ethel G. Morley, 31, divorcee; in Philadelphia.
Married. Prince Henry XV of Pless, 63, Hohenzollern, to intimate friend Sefiorita of Wilhelm Clothilde Silva y Candamo, 26. Prince Henry was Secretary to the German Embassy in London before the War. Two years ago, he appealed to the Pope for a dissolution of his first marriage on the ground that his wife's father, Colonel William Cornwallis-West, had forced him, in 1891, to marry her at the point of a revolver.
Separated. Francis X. Bushman, 40, he-man from Beverly Bayne, cinema actress. Their romance began when he played Romeo to her Juliet, culminated when he gave up his five children, paid $40,000 alimony to his first wife, in order to marry her.
Died. General Alexei Nikolaevitch Kuropatkin, 76, famed commander of the main Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War, until the disaster of Mukden; at Shemshurino, Russian.
Died. James Patrick ("Big Jim") O'Leary, 60, "Prince of Gamblers"; in Chicago, of heart disease. He was the son of the "Mrs. O'Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed in 1921,