Monday, May. 01, 1939
Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin (see p. 25).
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 30, onetime husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; and Mary Lee Epling Hartford, 28, onetime wife of Chain-Store Scion (A & P) George Huntington Hartford; in Westwood. Calif. Best man: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Married. Tyrone Power Jr., 24, sleek cinemacting scion of an Anglo-Irish stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protegee of French Director Rene Clair. Once-widowed, once-divorced Annabella and Bachelor Power became friends last year during the filming of Suez.
Died. Daniel S. Roosevelt, 21, nephew of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Bronson Harriman Rumsey, 22, son of the late Sculptor Charles Gary Rumsey* and the late Mary Harriman Rumsey,/- in a plane crash; near Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla. Mexico. Belittling storm warnings, Flier Roosevelt, on vacation from Harvard, took off from a Mexico City airport with a girl companion, Carlotta Constantine, and Schoolfellow Rumsey, headed for Veracruz, ran into a storm, crashed in a forced landing. Catapulted clear of the wreckage, Carlotta Constantine was taken to a Mexico City hospital with fractures of left arm and leg.
Died. Jose Aranguren, onetime Republican Commander of Barcelona's Civil Guard, the brave Colonel Ximenes of Andre Malraux' novel, Man's Hope; before one of Franco's firing squads; in Barcelona.
Died. Julian F. Thompson, 50, playwright (The Warrior's Husband) and treasurer of McKesson & Robbins, who started the investigation that exposed President Coster as ex-Convict Musica; of influenza; in Manhattan.
Died. Mme Clementine Delait, 74, France's most famed bearded woman; in Epinal. Because her cafe, where she peddled picture post cards of herself (mustache, sideburns, foot-long beard), prospered, Mme Delait repeatedly spurned the overtures of importunate circus-owners.
Died. Charles Blair Macdonald, 83, stockbroker, first U. S. Amateur golf champion (1895), designer of the first 18-hole golf course in the U. S. (Chicago Golf Club); after long illness; in Southampton, L. I.
* Killed (1922) in an automobile accident.
/- Killed (1934) during a foxhunt.
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