Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Alan Gillespie Rinehart, a daughter, Gratia Houghton Rinehart; in Manhattan. Mr. Rinehart is son of Dr. Stanley M. Rinehart & Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mrs. Rinehart is niece of U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Alanson B. Houghton.

Married. Mrs. Nona H. McAdoo de Mohrenschildt, 32, daughter of onetime (1913-18) Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo; to Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 47, psychiatrist; in Manhattan. Mr. Mohrenschildt died in 1919. Dr. Cowles was divorced from his first wife, Florence Jaquith Cowles, in 1915.

Married. Lucien Lelong, selfstyled inventor of the "kinetic theory* of feminine dress," and smart, leading Parisian couturier; to Princess Natalie Paley, daughter (by a morganatic marriage) of the late Grand Duke Paul, an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris.

Married. Peter Arno, illustrator for the New Yorker, originator of the "Whoops Sisters,'' to Miss Lois Long ("Lipstick"), also of the New Yorker; near Stamford, Conn.

Died. James Oliver Curwood, 49, conservationist and famed author of many novels of the Northwest, including The Flaming Forest, The Country Beyond and A Gentleman of Courage; from blood poisoning, at Curwood Castle, near Owosso, Mich. When 17, he traveled over a thousand miles in a carriage, selling patent medicine; afterwards he studied at the University of Michigan; and then, for seven years worked on the Detroit News-Tribune, as reporter, feature writer, assistant editor and finally editor. He then devoted his time to fiction.

Died. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, 51, wife of the Anti-Saloon League counsel, from burns when an oil stove exploded in their summer cottage at Shelby, Mich. Mr. Candy, 81, her father, with her at the time, died from shock when he saw the flames envelop Mrs. Wheeler.

Died. Elbert Henry Gary, 81, Board Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation; in Manhattan, of myocarditis (see below).

Died. G. M. Wandrey, 89, for many years head shepherd to the flocks of the onetime (1871-88) German Emperor Wilhelm I; in Owatonna, Minn.

*To uninitiated persons the fashionable "kinetic theory" of M. Lelong seems to mean chiefly that he designs his dresses with full skirts to permit free leg movement. The French Government sent him to the U. S. in 1925 to report on the working conditions of women throughout the U. S. garment industry.