Engaged. Prince Juan, 21. third and only unmarried son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily.

Engagement Broken. Lily Pons, 30, Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Dr. Fritz von der Becke, Hamburg surgeon. Reason (announced by Miss Pons as she sailed from Manhattan for London to sing at the King's Silver Jubilee next month): "He has his work and I am going to give all for my art."

Married. Esther Strachey, divorced wife of pinko Economist Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey; and Chester A. Arthur Jr., organizer for Utopia, pinko grandson of the 21st President of the U. S.; in Harrison, N. Y.

Sued for Divorce. Marcus Cook ("Marc") Connelly, 44, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright (The Green Pastures); by Madeline Hurlock Connelly, onetime cinemactress; in London. Mrs. Connelly was reported planning to marry Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest).

Sued. Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, second wife of Grant Carveth Wells, dashing traveler and travel-writer; by Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, the traveler's first wife; for alienation of affections; in Bridgeport, Conn. Traveler Wells, testifying for wife No. 2, asserted that wife No. 1 beat him with a riding crop, wrote sarcastic letters about his amours, called the birth of their child an obscenity.

Birthdays. Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe), 83; Clarence Darrow, 78; May Robson, 70; Adolf Hitler, 46 (see p. 15); Shirley Temple, 6.

Died. A beggar whom police identified as the brother of the late Grigoriy Efimovich ("Mad Monk") Rasputin; of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Tomsk, Siberia.

Died. Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison, 64 longtime abstractor of medical publications, foremost U. S. historian of Medicine, librarian of Johns Hopkins' Welch Medical Library; after an abdominal operation; in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock was.

Died. Smith Stimmell. 92, last of Abraham Lincoln's Civil War bodyguard; in Fargo, N. Dak.

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