Monday, Nov. 02, 1931
MILESTONES
Engaged. Catherine Harriet Foulkes, daughter of Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, of Newark, N. J., Presbyterian and Y. M. C. A. leader; and Morley K. Price of Norwalk, Ohio.
Married. Artemisa Elias Calles, 17, daughter of Mexico's onetime President, now Minister of War, Plutarco Elias Calles; and Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller, 37, Manhattan dermatologist; in Mexico City. Among the guests: President Pascual Ortiz Rubio; U. S. Ambassador Joshua Reuben Clark.
Married. Howard Phipps, of Long Island's famed polo-playing family, son of the late Henry Phipps, one of the founders of U. S. Steel Corp.; and Harriet Dyer Price, daughter of Theodore Hazeltine Price, Manhattan cotton-expert, editor of Commerce & Finance; in Manhattan.
Married. Lady May Helen Emma Cambridge, 25, niece of Queen Mary of England, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone; and Capt. Henry Abel Smith, 32, of the Royal Horse Guards; in Balcombe, Sussex. Present were Queen Mary, Prince Edward of Wales (once reported engaged to Lady May) and most of the royal family. Among the bridesmaids: Princess Ingrid of Sweden, small Princess "Lilybet" who thus made her debut. Lady May wore the lace veil which Queen Mary and the Countess of Athlone had worn, omitted "obey"--first British royal bride so to do.
Married. Eleanor Painter, soprano, divorced wife of Tenor Louis Graveure; and Charles Henry Strong, Cleveland department store manager, father-in-law of Newton Diehl Baker III; in Manhattan.
Sued for Divorce. Pauline Lord, actress (Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) ; by Owen Burtch Winters, Manhattan advertising man, originator of Camel Cigaret's Cellophane advertising campaign; in Reno. Charge: cruelty.
Left. By the late Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (TIME, Oct. 12): an estate of unestimated value (possibly $10,000,000); to his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, save for $1,130,000 in bequests to friends, relations and institutions as follows: Amherst College, his alma mater ($200,000); Smith College, whence Mrs. Morrow was graduated ($200,000); The Smithsonian Institution; Columbia University; Union Theological Seminary; the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor; Englewood charities. To the late President George Daniel Olds of Amherst College; Professor Charles Theodore Burnett of Bowdoin College; onetime Dean Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge of Columbia's graduate faculties; Martin Egan of J. P. Morgan & Co.; and Arthur S. Springer, his secretary, go bequests of $25,000 each. The will directs that Mrs. Morrow "provide for herself and my children," leaves specific bequests to Senator Morrow's brother, sisters, sisters-in-law and mother-in-law. For Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the late Senator set up a $1,000,000 trust fund (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). Other children are Elisabeth (teacher), Dwight Whitney (Amherst junior) and Constance (Smith freshman).
Died. Barbara Marquis, 13, frail daughter of Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, Manhattan wit; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Like her father a talented versifier, she had lately written, edited, managed, multi-graphed and circulated a paper called The California Sun.
Died. Charles Ashby Penn, 62, vice president and director of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) and American Cigar Co., direct descendant of John, brother of William Penn; of gastrointestinal toxemia; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. John Whitridge Williams, 65, chief obstetrician of Johns Hopkins Hospital; after an abdominal operation; in Baltimore.
Died. Roland William Boyden, 68, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Hoover-appointed last year to succeed Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; of heart disease; in Beverly, Mass. In 1923 he caused international shivers by saying that the reparations provisions of the Treaty of Versailles were impossible, would affect Germany's financial situation until revised. Secretary of State Hughes told him to desist from expressing his views.
Died. Arthur Schnitzler, 69, Viennese novelist, poet and dramatist (Casanova's Homecoming, Professor Bernhardi, Frauelein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death.
Died. Charles Albert ("Old Roman") Comiskey, 73, president of the Chicago American League Baseball Club (White Sox); of heart disease; in Eagle River, Wis.
Died. Dr. Emil Mayer, 77, famed retired laryngologist, Wartime representative of the Medical Intelligence Bureau of the U. S. Red Cross; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Khartoum, 28, gluttonous, misanthropic 7,000-lb. elephant, largest in captivity; of heart disease after prolonged overfeeding and lethargic life; in New York Zoological Park, The Bronx.
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