Monday, Jun. 14, 1926
Engaged. John Livingstone Mott, son of Dr. John R. Mott, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; to Miss Celestine Goddard of South Salem, N. Y.
Engaged. Miss Elinor Loomis Sullivan of Manhattan; to Frederick Whiley Hilles, son of Charles Dewey Hilles, famed Republican. (TIME erroneously reported their marriage last week.)
Married. Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Efrem Zimbalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson. Through the "Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted an hour and a half, in the presence of two and a half truck loads of flowers. A wedding breakfast for 1,000 was served in the Executive Mansion, Sherry's doing the catering. The wedding gifts included a diamond and emerald bracelet (from the Downtown Tammany Club of New York City), two diamond bracelets, four oriental rugs, a dozen silver plates (from the State troopers), a Whistler etching, two carloads of early American furniture, a sapphire bow, a gold bag containing 50 $20 gold pieces, valuable tapestries, 20 clocks, 25 lamps, 25 chests of silver, 50 sets of dishes. The couple will live in a four-room house in Albany.
Married. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to one Curtis Dean Dall of Manhattan; by Rev. Endicott Peabody, Headmaster of Groton school, who married her parents in 1905.
Married. Elinor Medill Patterson, 22, daughter of famed editor-publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, Daily News (Manhattan) and Liberty (5-c- Magazine), recently starred by showman Morris Gest as the nun of Max Reinhardt's Miracle, graduate of Miss Spence's School; to Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., 29, son of socially prominent Russell Sturgis Codman, graduate of Groton and Harvard, noted international oarsman, successful Boston real estate broker.
At 4 a.m. they burst in upon his parents at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., announced their secret marriage at Putnam, Conn., on the eve of her departure for Europe to confer with Max Reinhardt respecting future roles, Morris Gest having reputedly offered her a ten-year contract. Her husband will remain in the U. S., will row at the Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia.
Married. Ilka Chase, 20, actress, daughter of Editor Edna Woolman Chase of Vogue, to Louis Calhern, 28, stock company actor; at Irondequoit, N. Y.
Married. Constance Binney, 26, famed cinema actress; to one C. E. Cotting of Boston.
Married. Miss Lucy Porter, daughter of Representative S. G. Porter (Pennsylvania); to Ensign Richard Swann Baron, U. S. N.
Married. Miss Margaretta Lammot du Pont, daughter of Irenee du Pont of Wilmington (explosives, industrial chemicals, motors); to one Crawford Hallock Greenwalt of Philadelphia.
Married. Lincoln Eyre, able Berlin correspondent of the New York Times, to Dinna Gralla, famed Polish cinema actress; at sea, aboard the President Roosevelt.
Married. Fred W. Fitch, 56, rich hair-tonic tycoon, onetime barber, to Gertrude Westberg, 38, his foster daughter and onetime chief hair-tonic bottler, at Des Moines.
Died. Baron Hans Hermann von Berlepsch, 83, scholar, statesman; in Berlin. He was appointed Prussian Minister of Commerce (1890) by Wilhelm II, who thereby ousted Prince Bismarck from that post (which he held in addition to the Chancellory), and gave warning that he would soon "drop the pilot."
Died. Elbridge Gerry Snow 3rd, 26, grandson of President Elbridge Gerry Snow of the Home Insurance Co., War hero, sportsman; at Stamford, Conn., as a result of injuries sustained in a polo accident.
Died. Meyer London, 54, Congressman 1915-19 and 1921-23, sole Socialist then in Congress; when run down by an automobile driven by Louis Greenspan (who likewise rammed the car of Jack Applebaum) at First Ave. and 18th St., Manhattan.
Died. Chester Daniel Massey, 75, industrialist (Canadian farm implements), philanthropist, educator; at Toronto, Canada.
Died. Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Ember, their six-year-old invalid son and Mrs. Ember's maid; at Windsor Hills, near Baltimore, when their house burned to the ground. Dr. Ember was Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Two children survive. Life-work manuscripts were lost.