Monday, Nov. 18, 1935

Married-- Margalo Gillmore, 35, actress (Flowers of the Forest, The Barretts of Wimpole Street), daughter of President Frank Gillmore of the Actors' Equity Association; and Robert F. Ross, 35, director (On Stage, The Distant Shore) ; in Manhattan. Acquitted. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial manager and head of the London Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; by leaping from the Southampton-bound Berengaria off the Isle of Wight. With the Tribune and Herald Tribune since 1920, he had been recalled to Manhattan to write editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course in novel and short-story writing; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 78, paleontologist, longtime (1908-33) president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; suddenly, of a heart attack; at "Castle Rock," his Hudson River home near Garrison, N. Y. At home over the whole range of vertebrate evolution, he especially liked big animals, was a world authority on the development of titanotheres, elephants and horses. He met Darwin in London, studied under Thomas Henry Huxley after that astute scientist and mighty polemist had delivered his evolutionary blast against Bishop Wilberforce. Osborn similarly tangled with John Roach Straton and William Jennings Bryan ("The Earth," said he, "speaks to Bryan but he doesn't hear a sound"). An able administrator, he turned his museum into a splendidly staffed and equipped capital of scientific research. Died. Frau Elizabeth FOerster-Nietzsche, 89, only surviving sister of the late Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, his nurse and secretary during the eleven years before his death in 1900; in Weimar.

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