Monday, Nov. 19, 1934
Engaged. The Infanta Beatrix Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 25, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 23, of Rome, son of Manhattan's Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia.
Engaged. Lady Margaret, 24, second daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary for Air, and the Marchioness of Londonderry, No. 1 political hostess of the British Empire (TIME, Nov. 12); and her flying instructor. Alan Muntz, 35, a director of Heston Airport; without her father's approval.
Married. Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 19, daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, film, actor; in the home of a friend in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Senator McAdoo, who previously had threatened to cut off his daughter's $1,000-a-month allowance (TIME, Nov. 5), withdrew his objections but did not attend the wedding.
Married. Alfred Mitchell Bingham, 29, pinko editor of Common Sense, third son of onetime Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; and Sylvia Doughty Knox, 28, his associate editor; in Stonington, Conn.
Married. James Andrew Moffett, Federal Housing Administrator; and Mrs. Adeline Stillwell Moran, widow of Joseph F. Moran, wealthy shipbuilder; in Manhattan, 16 days after Mr. Moffett's estranged wife fell to death from a Manhattan apartment (TIME, Nov. 5).
Divorced. Michael Farmer, 31, Irish sportsman; by Film Actress Gloria Swanson, 33; in Los Angeles. Grounds: he was quarrelsome, abusive at the mention of U. S. politics; when she tried to discuss a radio speech of President Roosevelt he told her "she didn't know anything about politics and wasn't good at anything else." He was Miss Swanson's fourth husband, father of a two-year-old daughter, Michele Bridget.
Divorced. Yvonne Printemps, 35, French actress currently performing on Broadway in Noel Coward's Conversation Piece (TIME, Nov. 5); and Sacha Guitry, French actor-playwright; in Paris, on grounds of "reciprocal adultery." Finding both parties guilty, the court granted an impartial decree, canceled Mile Printemps' 6,000-franc monthly allowance. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News gushed editorial approval of this "sensible" ruling, seized a chance to lambaste U. S. divorce laws.
Died. Thomas George Lee, 56. president of Armour & Co. since 1931; of intestinal ailments following an appendectomy; in Chicago. A stenographer in 1895, he worked for Armour in Manhattan and Philadelphia, rose steadily, became known as one of the packing industry's ablest authorities. Succeeding Frank Edson White in 1931, he reduced Armour's operating costs by $45,000,000 (35%), wiped out $6,500,000 in annual carrying charges.
Died. Ivy Lee, 57, "public relations counselor"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan (see p. 34).
Died. Alfred Richard Orage, 61, British economist and journalist, editor of The New Age from 1907 to 1922, of The New English Weekly from 1932 until his death; in London. Lucid and incisive-minded. Editor Orage excited more British and U. S. writers than did any other single man of his time. In The New Age he launched 40 famed writers including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, Rebecca West, The Brothers Powys.
Died. William Lawrence Clements, 73, famed collector of early Americana and first citizen of Bay City, Mich.; in Bay City. Son of an enterprising steel manufacturer, he took over and ably expanded his father's business, retired a rich man in 1924. Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual British Headquarters Papers; 15 folio manuscript volumes of Lord Germain, British Colonial Secretary; and the official files of General Thomas Gage, British Commander-in-Chief, probably the most important bundle of manuscript that ever crossed the Atlantic. Some "items": Burgoyne's and Cornwallis' letters reporting surrender; Benjamin Franklin's letter refusing to compensate Tories; Pitcairn's report of the Battle of Lexington; a letter of Christopher Columbus describing his first voyage.
Died. Mrs. Josephine La Follette Siebecker, 81, sister of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette (see p. 13), relict of Chief Justice Robert G. Siebecker of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; in Madison, Wis.
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