Monday, Aug. 08, 1927
Married. Miss Lilla Cabot Grew, daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey; to Jay Pierrepont Moffat, first Secretary in the U. S. Legation at Ottawa; at Hancock, N. H.
Married. Miss Dorothy Mondell, daughter of onetime (1899-1923) congressman Frank Wheeler Mondell, to Alexander White Gregg, 28, chief Consul for the U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau (TIME, Jan. 17); at Newcastle, Wyo.
Married. Miss Natalie Chandler Christy, daughter of Howard Chandler Christy, famed magazine cover artist; to Ira Henry Chandler, in Manhattan.
Married. Eva Tanguay, 49, vaudeville headliner, to Alexander Booke, her pianist; at La Habra. Calif.
Married. Miss Irene Dorgan, sister of famed cartoonist and sports writer, Tad Dorgan; to John J. Tierney; at Great Neck, L. I.
Married. James A Stillman Jr., 22, of Manhattan, son of James A. Stillman, onetime president of the national City Bank, Manhattan, to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, of La Tuque, Quebec; at his parents' summer home, Grande Anse, Quebec (see p. 22).
Divorced. Major the Hon. Lionel Hallam Tennyson, grandson of Poet Tennyson and heir of the present Baron Tennyson; from the onetime Clarissa Madeline Georgina Felicity Tennant, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith ("Margot"); at London. The suit was not contested by Mrs. Tennyson. Her husband named as corespondent James Montgomery Beck Jr., of London, son of the onetime Solicitor General of the U. S.
Divorced. Lina Cavalieri Chanler Muratore, 53, opera singer, from Lucien Muratore, 49, opera singer; in Paris. She charged desertion.
Died. June Mathis, 35, said to be the highest paid U. S. scenario writer, discoverer of Rudolph Valentino; adapter of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from novel into scenario form; of heart failure; in Manhattan.
Died. Frederick Hall Thomas ("Freddie Welsh"), 41, onetime lightweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; of heart disease (see p. 26).
Died. Lady Anne Lauder, 58, wife of Sir Harry Lauder; in Glasgow (see p. 13). Died. Walter J. Travis, onetime amateur golf champion (1900, 1901, 1908); in Denver (see page 24).
Died. The Right Rev. William Cabell Brown, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; of heart disease; in London.
Died. John Cardinal Csernoch, 75, Archbishop of Graz and Primate of Hungary; of pneumonia; in Budapest.
Died. David C. Cook, 76, president of the David C. Cook Publishing Company, publishers of Sunday School literature; in Elgin, III. His publications include 43 titles, have a combined circulation of more than 4,500,000.
Died. Mrs, Joseph Pulitzer, 78, widow of the founder of the present New York World; at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife of Wm. Scoville Moore; Constance, wife of Wm. Gray Elmslie.
Died. Richard G. Lincoln. 82, third cousin of Abraham Lincoln; in Reading, Pa.
Died. Eppenetus W. Mclntosh, 83, onetime office boy to Abraham Lincoln, when he was practicing law in Springfield, Ill.; in Leavenworth, Kan.
Died. Mrs. Malvina Belle Ogden Armour, 85, widow of Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour & Co., meat packers, and mother of Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the firm; of old age infirmities, in Chicago.
Died. Louis Arnold, 94, "oldest living graduate of Harvard University (class of 1855); in Boston, Mass.