Born. To John Drinkwater, playwright (Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Bird in Hand) and Mrs. Drinkwater; a daughter.

Engaged. Miss Eileen Bennett, English tennis player; to Edmund Fearnley Whittinghstall, 28, English portrait painter.

Engaged. Arthur Eugene French, captain of the 1928 Harvard football team, son and namesake of the late Boston architect; to Miss Pauline Pope Day, daughter of Joseph Paul Day, potent Manhattan realtor.

Married. Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, lately divorced (TIME, July 15); to Carlotta Monterey, actress (The Hairy Ape), divorced wife of Illustrator Ralph Barton (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); in Paris. In a pre-nuptial contract, world-wandering Playwright O'Neill agreed to lease for 13 years the great Chateau de Plessis at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 25 miles from Tours, with a 600-acre game preserve. Miss Monterey also required installation of a roof garden, gymnasium, swimming pool.

Married. Mrs. Lotta Rupp (Cinemactress Lottie Pickford); to one Russell O. Gillard, Los Angeles undertaker; in Hollywood. It was Mrs. Rupp's third marriage. After her first divorce (1920) she proclaimed she would not marry again "even if the man had golden wings and a diamond halo."

Married. Dr. Joseph Augustus Blake, 65, famed U. S. surgeon; to a Miss Florence Drake, 24, nurse; in Toronto. Not until Dr. Blake confirmed this marriage was it known that he had been divorced in April by Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, whose divorce in 1914 from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., was the domestic sensation of its day.

Married. Anita Stewart, cinemactress, to George Converse, Manhattan businessman; in Hollywood. Sound films recorded the ceremony.

Married. Miss Mildred Vare, 23, daughter of Senator-suspect William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania; to William Frederick Kipp, 28, automobile dealer; in Atlantic City, N. J.

Married. Desha Breckinridge, editor and publisher of the Lexington, Ky. Herald; to Mrs. Frazer Lebus of Lexington, widow of Clarence Lebus, onetime largest Kentucky land owner; in Nantucket, Mass.

Elected. Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., to be a director of National City Bank of New York.

Birthday. David Belasco, theatre man; in Atlantic City. Age: 70 or 75.*

Birthday. George Bernard Shaw, in London. Age: 73. After asking that news of his birthday be suppressed, Septuagenarian Shaw issued a message: "If anybody in the United States thinks my 73rd birthday is in any way significant, I will say I think it exceedingly indelicate of him."

Birthday. John R. Voorhis, Grand Sachem of Tammany rfall, president of the Municipal Board of Elections; in Manhattan. Age: 100 (see p. 14).

Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, "Listerine" scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin's endurance flight-- see p. 47); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker.

Died. James P. Mandell, 23, of Boston, son of George S. Mandell, editor of the Boston Transcript; in Norwood, Mass.; of intracranial injuries sustained in a polo collision.

Died. Major Frank Brian Frederic Bibby, 36, of Sansaw, Shrewsbury, England, chairman of Bibby Steamship Line (England to India); off Loch Leven, Scotland, on his yacht.

Died. John Burchard Fine, 66, of Princeton, N. J., headmaster of Princeton Preparatory School since 1888; in Princeton. Educator Fine's successor will probably be his son, Harry B. Fine, present acting headmaster.

* Septuagenarian Belasco has always considered 1859 his birth year. His sister in San Francisco discovered that 1854 is given in the city records.