Reported Engaged. Marcella Duggan, 19, step-daughter of the late Marquess Curzon, famed British statesman; to one Edward Rice, attorney; in London. The Marchioness vehemently denied the report, but it is understood that Miss Duggan escaped from her locked bedroom and is visiting friends.

Engagement Denied. Roland Hayes, U. S. Negro tenor; to the Countess Coloredo-Mansfield (nee Kolowrat-Krakowski) of Vienna.

Married. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, publisher of the New York Morning Telegraph, onetime actress; to Col. Lytton Ament; in Washington, secretly last month. They are now in Rumania, visiting Queen Marie and King Ferdinand, personal friends of Colonel Ament.

Married. Frank Richards Ford, 54, president of the L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.; to Ethelwyn Linnell, J. P., honorary county magistrate; at Pavenham, England.

Married. George Campbell Carson, 55, "Desert Rat," who successfully fought for $20,000,000 in royalties on a smelting machine patent; to four-times-married Mrs. Hersee M. Gross, who said she had now found her "dream man"; in San Francisco.

Divorced. Ernest Hemingway, author of The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Nov. 1); by Mrs. Hadley Richardson Hemingway; in Paris.

Died. Frau Hildegard Carson, 50, designated by the usually conservative New York Times "Germany's richest woman"; in Bayreuth, Germany; from apoplexy. Her $10,000,000 estate of shipbuilding yards and docks in East Prussia goes to her Swedish husband. (Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen is probably worth $50,000,000.)

Died. Mrs. Katrina Ely Tiffany, 51, wife of Jeweler Charles L. Tiffany, vice president of Tiffany & Co.; from pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Leland Laflin Summers, 56, munitions expert; of intestinal influenza; at Whitestone, L. I.

Died. Dr. Henry W. Frauenthal, 63, founder of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (largest orthopedic hospital in the world); having fallen from a seventh floor window; in Manhattan. In 1911 he successfully grafted the tibia bone from a dead man's leg into a girl's leg. In 1912, he saw the Titanic sink.

Died. I-See-O (meaning "Plenty Fires"), 75 or 80, last of the Kiowa Indian scouts, only sergeant in the U. S. regular army holding his position for life* of pneumonia; at Fort Sill, Okla.

Died. Walter Leaf, 75, chairman of the Westminster Bank (one of the "Big Five" banks); at Torquay, England. Onetime (1919-21) president of the Institute of Bankers, he was also a noted Greek scholar, having translated the Iliad* and other poems. Henry Bell, banker, wrote of him: For while we see Crowns drop from kingly heads, and canker Attack the hereditary tree, Yet there is left one Leaf to be At once a Poet and a Banker.

Died. Manuel Gondra, twice (1910 & 1920) President of Paraguay, onetime Minister to the U. S.; at Asuncion, Paraguay.

*By special act of Congress, when the Indian scouts were disbanded in 1913.

*With Andrew Lang and Ernest Myers.