Monday, Apr. 29, 1940
Marriage Revealed. Alice Jane McHenry, 15, whose upside-down stomach was righted by surgery in 1935; and normal-stomached William Kern Byle, 23; March 22; in Chicago. Said she: "I want to raise a family right away."
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 42, ousted British War Secretary; and French Actress Jacqueline Delubac, 30, divorced wife of famed Actor Sacha Guitry.
Died. Thomas Beer, 50, author of The Mauve Decade, Stephen Crane, Hanna; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Slow and obliquely precious in his writing, he produced few books, many potboilers for the Satevepost. Hipped on the influence of visual color on human life, he struggled ten years to prove his spectrum, left an unfinished volume on the subject.
Died. Florence (Florrie) Forde (Australian-born, Cockney by adoption), 65, famed London music-hall singer who introduced Tipperary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Aberdeen, Scotland, after a charity performance at which she sang her most famous song: Good byeee, good byeee, wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eyeee.
Died. Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), 65, bathroom fixture manufacturer, onetime Governor of Wisconsin (1929-30); of coronary embolism; in Kohler, Wis.
Died. Willard Underbill Taylor, 70, lawyer, yachtsman, brother of Steel Tycoon Myron C. Taylor; of heart disease; in Garden City, L. I.
Died. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, 75, historian, onetime (1916-22) President of the British Board of Education, father of the sweeping law which modernized Great Britain's education system; after being hit by a truck; in London.
Died. Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died in 1920.
Died. Engebreth H. Hobe, 80, longtime (49 years) consul for Norway in the U. S. Northwest; after long illness; in St. Paul. News of Germany's invasion of his country was never told him.
Died. Katharina (Kaethi) Schratt, 84, mistress of the late Austrian Emperor Franz Josef; in Vienna.
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