Monday, Mar. 13, 1939
Married. Hedy Lamarr (real name: Hedy Kiesler Mandl), 24, sultry Viennese cinemactress (Extase, Algiers'); and Gene Markey, 43, cinema producer; both for the second time; in Mexicali, Lower Calif.
Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (nee Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England.
Married. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, author of Ex-Wife and ex-wife of three; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent, ex-husband of two; in Manhattan.
Married. Donald Ogden Stewart, 44, humorist, screen writer, head of Hollywood's Anti-Nazi League; and Lenore Winter Steffens ("Ella Winter"), 40, writer, once married to the late Author-Journalist Lincoln Steffens; both for the second time;* in Ventura, Calif.
Died. Herbert Mundin, 40, British cinema comedian (Cavalcade, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Robin Hood); of a fractured skull received in an automobile accident; in Van Nuys, Calif.
Died. Katherine Stravinsky, 57, wife, first cousin and "oldest friend" of Composer Igor Stravinsky, mother of his four children; of tuberculosis; in Paris.
Died. Howard Carter, 66, famed British Egyptologist, leader of the expedition which discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of King TutankhAmen; of pneumonia; in London.
Died. Dr. Miron Cristea, 70, Patriarch of the Rumanian Greek Orthodox Church, Premier of Rumania since February 1938; of heart disease; at Cannes, France. Successor to Jew-baiter Octavian Goga as nominal head of King Carol II's Government, Premier Cristea issued Rumania's enlightened "Minorities Statute" (TIME, Aug. 15).
Died. John Garibaldi Sargent, 78, friend & associate of Calvin Coolidge, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Attorney General; of heart disease; in Ludlow, Vt.
Died. William Shakespeare (no kin), 83; of old age; in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
* Mr. Stewart's first wife, Beatrice Ames, married (1938) Count Ilya Tolstoy, grandson of the late great Leo Tolstoy.
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