Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at "Asgaard," Artist Kent's home near Ausable Forks, N. Y.

Birthday-- John Davison Rockefeller, 95.

Died-- Evelyn Butler, circa 60, professor of English at Butler University (Indianapolis), onetime (1923-30) Dean of Women, daughter of the University's onetime President Scot Butler, granddaughter of Benefactor Ovid Butler, for whom the University was named: after long illness; in Indianapolis.

Died. Chaim Nachman Bialik, 61, Hebrew poet, "Wordsworth of Hebrew literature." critic, journalist, Yiddish-Hebrew translator; of a heart attack following an operation; in Vienna. An English translation of his poems was published in 1926.

Died. Alec B. Francis, 63, oldtime stage actor, film actor since 1910; after an operation; in Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa).

Died. Marie Sklodowska Curie. 66, co-discoverer of radium; of a lung ailment and pernicious anemia; near Sallanches, France (see p. 22).

Died. Wilbur Morris Stine, 70, physicist, poet, educator; of apoplexy; at Penfield, Pa. Dr. Stine claimed that he was first (1892) to get an x-ray shadow picture, the first (1897) to suggest the remedial use of x-rays.*

Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June 1933.

Died. Ellen MacRorie, 90, Scottish-born childhood nurse of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; in Hamilton, Ont.

Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy.

*Acknowledged discoverer of x-rays, in 1895, was Wilhelm Konrad von Rentgen (1845--1923).

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