Monday, Jan. 30, 1928

Born. To the King and Queen of Jugoslavia, a second son (see p. 20).

Engaged. Gertrude Lawrence, famed British actress (Oh Kay; Chariot's Revue) to Bertrand L. Taylor Jr., Manhattan broker. The wedding will not take place for five months, when her British divorce decree from Francis Gordon Howley, London theatrical producer, becomes absolute.

Married. Miss Cornelia Neilson Simmons, daughter of E. Henry H. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange; to Theodore Cole Romaine, Manhattan scion; in Manhattan.

Married. Miss Ruth Green, daughter of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to Melvin Bronnenberg, of Coshocton, Ohio; in Cincinnati.

Married. Miss Louise Hunter, prima donna of Golden Dawn, current light opera in Manhattan; to Henry Haven Winsor Jr., of Evanston, ill., wealthy publisher of Popular Mechanics; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt, recently divorced from Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; half-sister of Martin W. Littleton, counsel for the defense on the Fall-Sinclair mistrial at Washington; to Jasper Morgan, of Wheatley Long Island, nephew of J. P. Morgan, at Windsor, Vt.

Married. Miss Frances Lindon Smith, daughter of Artist Joseph Lindon Smith of Manhattan; to Raymond Otis, son of Banker Joseph Edward Otis, of Chicago; in Manhattan.

Married. Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, 63, presiding Judge in the Snyder-Gray murder trial, investigator of the Queens (New York City) sewer scandal, potential Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York; to Miss Alice Booth McCutcheon, 42, daughter of the late James McCutcheon, linen merchant, and founder of the Manhattan store of that name; at Greenwich, Conn.

Married. Mrs. Lucy Banning Ross, of Los Angeles, Calif., to Seteuzo Oto, a Japanese, her fourth husband; in Seattle. Separated. James H. R. Cromwell, son of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia, and his wife, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, famed speedboat pilot, daughter of the late Horace E. Dodge, automobile manufacturer.

Divorced. By Echward C. Delafield, president of the Bank of America, in Manhattan, Mrs. Margaretta S. Beasley Delafield; in Reno.

Died. Maria Guerrero de Diaz de Mendoza, famed star of Spanish and South American stages, sometimes called "the Sarah Bernhardt of Spain," in Madrid.

Died. Ellis Pusey Passmore, 59, of Philadelphia, president of the Bank of North America and Trust Co., oldest bank in the country; at Philadelphia.

Died. John Wilbur Dwight, 68, of Dryden, N. Y. and Washington, onetime (1903-1913) Republican Congressman, president since 1913 of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Major General George Washington Goethals, 69, builder of the Panama Canal (see p. 13).

Died. William du Pont, 72, retired, one of the chief owners of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; at his winter home, near Brunswick, Ga.

Died. Anthony Rousch Mills, 77, potent westerner; at Sundance, Wyo. "Thirty years back," Mills, climbing a trail in the Black Hills, encountered a grizzly. The bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein.

Died. Frederic Arthur Bridgman, 80, famed U. S. artist; in Rouen, France.

Died. Fitzhugh Lee, 81, theatrical producer, one of five men who in 1888 founded the Loyal Order of Moose at Louisville, Ky.; in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Died. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, seventh Duke of Richmond, 83, aide de camp to Queen Victoria, King Edward and King Geoge, owner of Goodwood, fashionable racecourse on the South Downs; at Goodwood House, near Chicester, England. The Duke was a Knight of the Garter* (highest order of England, founded by Edward III). It was the first Duke of Richmond who, nine years old, inaugurated the present fashion of wearing the ornament of the order. This small bastard presented himself before his father Charles II. to receive the Garter, but the King found that it was too long to hang about the boy's neck. The Duchess of Portsmouth, the king's mistress and mother of the boy, swept graciously forward, suspended it over the boy's left shoulder, crossing the bands to the right hip; stepped triumphantly back to her place. The King, enchanted with the effect, decreed that such was to be the custom thenceforth.

Died. Frederic William Stevens, 88, for 57 years director of the Chemical National Bank, second oldest alumni of Yale (Class of. 1858), grandson of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and Madison; in Manhattan.

*Among the many legends regarding the origin of the Order of the Garter the most picturesque is the one told of the Countess of Salisbury, who in a crowded assembly is said to have lost her garter. Edward III picked it up and to reprove the smiling courtiers placed it on his own knee, exclaiming, "Dishonored he who thinks ill of it," a close parallel to the British royal motto, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."