Monday, Mar. 04, 1940
Born. To Princess Marie-Jose of Piedmont, and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy; their third child, a daughter; in Naples. Name: Maria Gabriella Gennaro Adelaide Adelgonda Giuseppina Felicita Margherita. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10 oz. Her maternal grandmother is Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians.
Birthdays. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, 83; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, 48; Frederic, Pirate of Penzance, 21.*
Married. Maria Rasputin Soloviev, 39, animal tamer, self-styled daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk"; Gregory Rasputin; and one Gregory Bernadsky, 39; in Miami, Fla.
Seeking Divorce. Crooner Tony Martin, 28; and Cinemactress Alice Faye, 24; after more than a year's separation; in Los Angeles. Grounds: incompatibility. Said she in Hollywood: "It was inevitable that we should part when our careers kept us from each other." Said he in Miami: "We did our best. . . . Our separate careers kept us apart, however."
Divorced. Alton Parker Hall, grandson of Presidential Candidate (1904) Alton B. Parker; by Emmeline Marion Grace Hall, daughter of Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace; after a separation of three years; in Reno, Nev.
Died. Hope Short, second-born of the Nauvoo, Ala. quadruplets (Sisters Faith, Charity; Brother Franklin--TIME, Feb. 26); of colic; in Jasper, Ala., after a life of 40 days.
Died. Smith Freeman Reavis, 46, Associated Pressman whose Paris interview with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in 1927 led to the Briand-Kellogg Pact; after an operation; in Manhattan. Of the 15 original signatories, two are defunct (CzechoSlovakia, Poland), nine at war.
Died. John Taylor Pirie, 68, Chicago civic and financial leader, board chairman of Carson Pirie Scott & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Plymouth, Fla.
Died. Keikichi Tanomogi, 73, mayor of Tokyo; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He lit the "Flame of Friendship" brought to the New York World's Fair last year by Akiko Tsukimoto, "Miss Japan."
Died. Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, 89, president emerita of the Istanbul Women's College; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif.
* Apprenticed to the pirate king until his 21st birthday be reached, he began in 1880 (year of the first production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance) to exclaim in horror:
". . .I was born in leap-year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me till 1940."
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