Divorced. Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Joan, Barbara, Constance; by Angela Raisch Bennett; in Los Angeles. Married since 1927, they separated in 1934. Mrs. Bennett was awarded $60,000 community property. Said she: "Dick would go temporarily insane, and play his parts with such realism that he climaxed one performance by driving a nail file through my cheek."

Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt, 23, heiress who sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon Hewitt McCarter claimed she had the operation performed because her daughter was feeble-minded and "dangerously over-sexed." The physicians who performed it were acquitted of mayhem, but Heiress Gay's $500,000 suit against her mother is still pending.

Honored. Swiss-Born Oscar ("of the Waldorf") Tschirky, 71, famed majordomo of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 44 years, and his wife, Sophie Bertisch Tschirky, 71; with a dinner party attended by 1,000 people in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary. Toastmaster of the dinner, sponsored by 17 societies of hotel men and gourmets, was the New York Times's Editor John H. Finley. To the tune of the Wedding March, softly played by violins, Mr. & Mrs. Tschirky cut a 200-lb. wedding cake. They received felicitations from onetime President Herbert Clark Hoover, the present Cabinet, bigwigs in general. Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent "warm greetings and congratulations to my good friend Oscar and his good wife."

Left. By Editor-Author Ed Howe, an estate valued at $200,000; in Atchison, Kans. To Society Editor Nellie Webb of his Globe, he left $1,500. To Niece Adelaide Howe he left $50,000. To Sons Eugene Alexander and James Pomeroy he left the remainder except for $1, which went to Daughter Mateel Howe Farnham who in 1927 won a $10,000 prize for Rebellion, a novel in which she satirized her father.

Died. Barbara Duncan Hopkins, 37, second wife of WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins and mother of his daughter, Diane, 5; after a long illness; in Washington. Among those who attended the funeral were President & Mrs. Roosevelt, several members of the Cabinet.

Died, Thomas Nelson Perkins, 67, Boston lawyer, businessman, financier; after a two-year illness; in Boston. Lawyer Perkins, graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1894, became in 1906 the youngest Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. During the World War he was assistant Secretary of War in charge of organizing tue munitions industry, was chief counsel to the War Industries Board. Lawyer Perkins' speech was slangy. At a meeting of the Corporation, the late President Eliot once requested: "Will someone kindly translate Mr. Perkins' remarks into English so that I may understand them?"

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