Monday, Jun. 19, 1939
Born. To Cinemactress Mary Astor Hawks Thorpe del Campo, 33, and Manuel del Campo, 27: a son; her second child, his first; in Hollywood. Weight: 5 Ibs. 10 oz.
Married. Marion Houghton Hepburn, sister of Actress Katharine Hepburn (see p. 40); and Ellsworth Strong Grant; in West Hartford, Conn. Among the bridesmaids: Sister Katharine.
Married. Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 33, a member of TIME Inc.'s London staff, son of the late famed Austrian librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier); and Lady Elizabeth Paget, 22, trainbearer to Queen Elizabeth at her coronation; his second (first wife: Vincent Astor's sister, Alice); in London.
Marriage Disclosed. Lewis Edward Lawes, 55, Sing Sing Prison's warden and a widower since 1937; and Elise Chisholm, 35, theatrical agent; last April; in Arlington, Va.
Declared Dead. New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, Tammanyite, missing since Aug. 6, 1930; in Manhattan.
Died. Mrs. Constance Willis Campbell, 32, wife of Negro Cartoonist Elmer Simms Campbell, who draws svelte white nudes; by her own hand (shooting), in Elmsford, N. Y.
Died. Jack Osterman, 37, famed ad-libbing, ad-bibbing comedian, called "The Banter King of Broadway"; of pneumonia; in Atlantic City. Once accosted by a Broadway trull with the traditional: "What are you doing tonight, honey?" cat-witted Osterman sighed: "I'm making a Gaumont film. Thank God somebody asked me."
Died. Owen Moore, 52, Mary Pickford's first husband and once, like his brothers, Matt and Tom, a popular cinemactor of the silent movies; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh (see p. 20) won it.
Died. James Triplett Haxall, 79, retired banker, famed Princeton alumnus, whose 65-yard placement kick (Yale-Princeton game, Nov. 30, 1882), is one of football's oldest unbroken records; in Baltimore.
Died. Hsu Shih-chang, 81, onetime President of the Chinese Republic (1918-22); in Tientsin. Holder of many high offices under the last Manchu dynasty (finally Grand Guardian of Emperor Pu Yi), he was said to have been the only Chinese to receive both imperial and republican honors.
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