Monday, Jun. 24, 1935

Born. To Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 23, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team, and Edna May Rowe: a son, their first child; in Detroit. Weight: 4 Ib. Next day Father Rowe yielded only three hits as he beat Boston, 4-to-1.

Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Irving Thalberg (Norma Shearer); an 8-lb. daughter; in Hollywood. The Thalbergs have a son. Irving Jr., 5.

Engaged. George Vanderbilt, 20, co-heir to the $30,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, West Orange, N. J. socialite. From an African trip last spring Heir Vanderbilt brought back 5,000 snakes, 15,000 bugs, 10,000 birds, 15,000 ft. of cinema.

Married. Katrina McCormick, daughter of Mrs. Albert Gallatin Simms and the late U. S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois, granddaughter of the late great Mark Hanna; and Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Jr., Manhattan broker; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Robert Emmet Sherwood, 39. lanky playwright (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest), longtime cinema critic; and Madeline Hurlock Connelly, 35. divorced wife of his good friend Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures); in Budapest. The marriage was Mr. Sherwood's second, his wife's third.

Married. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, novelist (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided); and her Manhattan publisher, President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co.; in Reno, after Mrs. Buck had divorced John Lossing Buck, onetime missionary, and Mr. Walsh had been divorced by Mrs. Ruth Abbott Walsh, good friend of Mrs. Buck.

Married. The Archbishop of York's favorite kitchen maid, pretty Dorothy Shaw; to George Wilson, Bishopthorpe cobbler; by the Archbishop of York. She changed into traveling clothes in a bedroom of the Archbishop's Palace, left the Palace on her honeymoon in the Archbishop's motor car.

Left. By the late Benjamin Newton Duke, last of the Duke tobacco triumvirate (Father Washington Duke. Brother James Buchanan Duke): $7,879,850 ($66,000,000 was estimated at his death in 1929). Beneficiaries: Daughter Mary Duke Biddle, divorced wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., and 22 charitable, religious and educational institutions.

Died. Philippe Marcombes, 58, Radical Socialist Minister of Education in the French Cabinet formed last fortnight by Premier Pierre Laval; of heart disease; in Paris, just before the new Cabinet's first meeting in the Elysee Palace.

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