Monday, Sep. 26, 1927

Engaged. Miss Dorothy Michelson, daughter of Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed Chicago scientist to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president of A. B. Dick Co. of Chicago, manufacturers of labor saving devices.

Engaged. Alfred Noyes, 47, famed English poet; to Mrs. Weld-Blundell of Lancashire, England.

Married. Joseph Wesley Harper, great grandson of Joseph Harper, founder of Harper & Brothers, publishers; .to Miss Constance Garland, (illustrator of her father's (Author Hamlin Garland's) books

(published by Macmillan); at Onteora, N. Y.

Married. Miss Dorothy Evans Nulton. daughter of Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton, superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy; to one Laurence Wright Browning, Naval Academy '24, who quit the Navy to enter business; at Annapolis.

Married. Phyllis Cleveland, second cousin of the late U. S. Presi- dent Grover Cleveland, leading lady in The Cocoanuts* (with Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo Marx); to one J. Ainsworth Morgan of San Francisco & New York; in Manhattan.

Married. Anna Fay Prosser, daughter of Seward Prosser, famed Manhattan banker; to Dan Platt Caulkins of Detroit, quarterback on Princeton's 1926 football eleven; at Woods Hole, Mass.

Married. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Calhern, actor; at Noroton, Conn.

Died. George W. Hayes, one-time (1913-17) Governor of Arkansas; in Little Rock, of pneumonia.

Died. Isadora Duncan, 47, famed danseuse; in Nice. One end of her red scarf caught in the front wheel of her motor; she was dragged from her seat and instantly killed. On her bier, her chauffeur laid a huge bouquet of flowers representing a month's earnings.

Died. James Henry Higgins, 51, who was elected Governor of Rhode Island in 1906 at the age of 31; at Pawtucket, R. I; of heart disease. He had been active the day before in his law office and on the golf links; had planned to attend the Tunney-Dempsey fight.

Died. Laurence Dunn, 57, accountant, brother of the wife of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; in Manhattan, of pneumonia.

Died. Charles R. Miller, 69, one time (1913-17) governor of Delaware, father of Col. Thomas Woodnut Miller, onetime (1925) U. S. Alien Property Custodian; at Clementon, N. J. of heart disease. He told his host, Col. Joseph H. Baker, he desired exercise. Said Col. Baker, smiling: "Well here's a saw; go trim some of the evergreens." Mr. Miller eagerly agreed, and died of overexertion.

*The show opened in Manhattan in 1926 and went on the road in 1927. It was to open in Buffalo on Sept. 26, later going to the Pacific Coast, but without Miss Cleveland.