Monday, Jul. 15, 1935

Married. George Washington Hill, 50, president of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes); and Mary T. Barnes, 39, his secretary; in London.

Marriage Revealed. Crystal* Marion Lawes, 24, daughter of Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes; and Jack Stratton Douvarjo, 24, florist, son of a Mt. Vernon (N. Y.) barber; following elopement to Manhattan last May.

Divorced. Eugene Luther Vidal, U. S. Director of Air Commerce; by Nina Gore Vidal, daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.

Died. Mrs. Virginia Fair ("Birdie") Vanderbilt, 55. first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; of pneumonia ; in Manhattan. Daughter of James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt.

Died. Andre Gustave Citroen, 57, French motorcar tycoon; of cancer; in Paris.

Died. Leopold Woelfling, 66, onetime Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Colonel of the Imperial & Royal Army of Austria-Hungary; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty.

Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland.

Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar."

* Not to be confused with Sister "Cherie" (Joan Marie), 13, pet & playmate of Sing Sing trusties.

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