Monday, Dec. 06, 1937
Born, To Marigold Rosemary Joyce, Countess of Londesborough, 34, and the late Hugo William Cecil Deniscm, Earl of Londesborough who died last April of pneumonia; a daughter; in London. The posthumous child will inherit the Earl's $5,000,000 but not his title, which became extinct for lack of male issue.
Engaged. Elizabeth Murton du Pont. 20, daughter of Director Eugene E. du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., to Walter Samuel Carpenter 3d. 22. son of du Font's vice president, Walter S. Carpenter Jr.; in Wilmington. Del.
Married. Ira Arthur Hirschmann. 35, vice president of Saks-Fifth Avenue (Manhattan department store); to Pianist Hortense Monath, 29. with whose aid Hirschmann launched the New Friends of Music (TIME, Nov. 15); by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, in Miss Monath's Manhattan apartment.
Divorced. Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower, onetime actress, from Herbert F. de Bower, Manhattan broker, in Reno. She declared she would marry Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, whose former wife fortnight ago married Ernest Aldrich Simpson, ship broker, whose former wife six months ago married he Duke of Windsor.
Annulled. The 1928 marriage of Ernst ^.iidiger, Prince von Starhemberg. 38, one-time Austrian Heimwehr leader, to Countess Maria Elizabeth von Salm-Reiffer-scheidt-Raitz, 29, by both religious and civil courts at Salzburg and Vienna. Proceedings have dragged on since 1935. when he Prince appealed for annulment because lis wife had borne no heirs to the Starhemberg estates (on which he now owes $60,000 tax arrears). Vienna rumor announced that he would be married this week to Actress Nora Gregor, a Max Reinhardt protegee, who has already given him a male heir.
Died. Tell Taylor, 61, composer of Down By the Old Mill Stream, which sold nearly 4,000,000 copies; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; of a heart attack; in Chicago.
Died. Theodore Augustus Walters, 61, Assistant Secretary of the Interior since 1933; of pneumonia; in Washington.
Died. Dexter William Fellows, 66, famed circus pressagent; of complications after an attack of typhoid fever; in Hattiesburg, Miss. Named for a race horse and a favorite uncle, Fellows grew up in Massachusetts, later publicized Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show. Colonel William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey.
Died. Alfred Solman, 69, composer of The Bird on Nellie's Hat, chosen by Eugene O'Neill for Ah, Wilderness! as the type-song of the 20th Century's first decade; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; in Manhattan.
Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services.
Died. Douglas Vickers, 76, retired chairman of Vickers Ltd., World's No. 2 munitions firm,* onetime (1918-22) Member of Parliament; in London. In 1931 he declared to visitors in his plant: "Our work is very necessary, because the League of Nations cannot be depended upon to do everything. . . ."
Died. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, 79, Hindu physicist and botanist; of a heart attack; at Giridih, India. Famed for his assertion that plants have hearts, nerves, emotions, intellections, he demonstrated by experiment that every stimulus--light, electric shock, alcohol, drugs--affects plants as well as animals.
Died. Bonita, 21, mongrel fox terrier which sulked three days beneath the coffin of her owner, the late Horticulturist Luther Burbank while he lay in state after his death in 1926; of old age; in Santa Rosa, Calif.
* Largest: International Schneider-Creussot-Skoda.
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