Monday, Mar. 16, 1936
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (ne Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford divorced Fairbanks for mental cruelty.
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold.
Settled, The claim of Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte, N. C. hardwareman against his onetime father-in-law, Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon. Thrice Plaintiff Smith took to court his charge that Towelman Cannon had disrupted his marriage with Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, who previously had divorced the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels). Plaintiff Smith had sued for $250,000 balm, got $12,600 out of court.
Left. By the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller: an estate valued at $3,389,244.58; in Chicago.
Died. Jean ("Young Cupid") Patou 47, onetime No. 1 French couturier and style dictator; of an apoplectic stroke; in Paris. A gambler and master showman, who died in poverty, he was the first Paris designer to use U. S. mannequins, in 1923 first re-introduced the long skirt.
Death Revealed. Phoebe Elsie Whately, 51, cook and housekeeper in the Sourland Mountain home of Colone Charles Augustus Lindbergh when Charles Jr. was kidnapped; of cancer, last January; in Birmingham, England. Cook Whately's husband Ollie, the Lindberghs butler, died in 1933.
Died. William Frederic Bade, 63 famed Biblical scholar and archeologist who, by studying the Old Testament, dis covered the lost city of Mizpah ir Palestine in 1926; of a paralytic stroke in Berkeley, Calif.
Died. Rasmus Bjoern Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison, Wis.
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