Monday, Dec. 16, 1929
Living Together. Lou Tellegen, actor, onetime husband of Geraldine Farrar; and one Eve Casanova, chorus girl; in Manhattan. Announced she last week: ''We are man and wife but we are never going to get married."
Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel fur.
Married. Mary Stinson Pillsbury, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stinson Pillsbury (flour); and Oswald Bates Lord of New York; at Minneapolis; on her parents' 28th wedding anniversary.
Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways.
Elected. Charles H. Knapp, lawyer, president of the Baltimore "Orioles," to be president of International Baseball League (Baltimore. Buffalo, Syracuse, Newark, Toronto, Rochester. Jersey City, Reading); at Chattanooga, Term.
Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, sixth vice president of American Federation of Labor; at Washington; of burns suffered when he fell asleep while smoking.
Died. Dr. Rosalvo Bobo, 56, onetime (1918) Provisional President of Haiti, opponent of U. S. intervention; in Paris.
Died. Robert Reid, 67, the artist who painted the murals in the Library of Congress, Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and pneumonia. Having taught himself to paint with his left hand, last spring he exhibited two pictures at the National Academy of Design (Manhattan).
Died. Louis Folwell Hart, 67, seventh Governor of Washington (1919-25); at Tacoma; of diabetes.
Died. Lawrence Godkin, 69, son of the late famed Edwin Lawrence Godkin (editor of the New York Evening Post, founder of The Nation); in Manhattan.
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1-c- postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes.
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