Engaged. Janet Phillips, socially able eldest daughter of Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., Oklahoma & Pennsylvania oil & gas oligarch, onetime (1923-1927) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and director of, among other companies, the Shell Union Oil Corp.; to Leander McCormick-Goodhart, U. S.-born, English-educated subject of H.M. King George V, now commercial secretary of the British Embassy at Washington.

Engaged. Prince Eitel Friedrich, 44, second son of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Mme. Clara Sielchen Schwartz, 52, widow of Opera Singer Joseph Schwartz. Reputed second wealthiest prince in Europe, Eitel Friedrich was divorced in 1927 by the former Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who subsequently married a Berlin police officer.

Reported Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce.

Married. George Moran, blackface comedian, member of the team of Moran & Mack ("Two Black Crows"); to Dancer Claire White; at Crown Point, Ind.

Divorced. Mrs. Margaret Gibbs Miller Guggenheim; from Robert Guggenheim, son of Capitalist Daniel Guggenheim, managing director of the Guggenheim Exploration Zinc Co., director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelting Securities Co. and other copper companies; in Paris.

Reconciled. Dorothy Cumming, whose contract as the "Blessed Virgin" in the cinema play The King of Kings forbids her from the "appearance of evil" for at least seven years; with the father of her two children, Frank Elliott, from whom she was divorced last December.

Died. Nora Bayes, 47, famed and beautiful actress in vaudeville and musical comedies, from the results of an abdominal operation performed at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance.

Died. Erie Clark Hopwood, 51, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer since 1920; at Cleveland; of heart failure.

Died. Melton D. Bryant, 52, philanthropist, brother-in-law of Henry Ford, member of the Michigan State Legislature since 1924; of heart disease; in Traverse City, Mich.

Died. Clifton H. Dwinnell, 55, financier, director of the Hood Rubber Co., president since 1926 of the First National Bank of Boston; in Boston.

Died. William Kent, 64, multi-millionaire California landowner, progressive political leader, onetime (1911-17) Congressman, member in 1917 of the U. S. Tariff Commission; of pneumonia; in Kentfield, Marin county, Calif.

Died. Conrad Hubert, 70, credited with having first conceived the idea of the electric flashlight; at Cannes, France. He organized the Ever-Ready Battery Co. and was its president until its sale ten years ago to the National Carbon Co. Then he bought stock control and became board chairman of the Yale Electric Corp., makers of flashlights and batteries.

Died. Mrs. Shirley Sabin Lloyd, 72, active president since 1892 of W. H. S. Lloyd Co. of Manhattan (one of the largest wallpaper importing houses in the U. S.); in Manhattan*

*Another old lady, at 70, hale and active in business, is Mrs. Charles B. Knox, president of the Charles B. Knox Co. (gelatine), whose able management is reported in Tide, March 15.