MILESTONES

Married. Pretty, blonde Virginia Lee Newport, 19, of Beverly Hills, Calif.; and Joe Leroy Brown, 21, handsome son of gulf-mouthed cineclown Joe E. Brown.

Married. Dark, beauteous Mary B. Gushing, 34, daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Harvey Gushing, elder sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and her longtime friend, Manhattan Real-Estate Tycoon William Vincent Astor, 48, inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor Franklin Roosevelt during Term I.

Divorced. Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr; from Writer-Producer Gene Markey; in Hollywood, after testifying that he spent only four evenings alone with her in 14 months of wedded life. The Court's advice to Miss Lamarr: spend more than four weeks getting acquainted with your next one.

Died. Marguerite Clark, 53, onetime silent cinemactress; of pneumonia, after five days' illness; in Manhattan. Cincinnati-born, she co-starred at 15 with De Wolf Hopper. She appeared in Victor Herbert's famed Babes in Toyland and in 1915 went to Hollywood to make such films as Snow White and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Peer of Mary Pickford, fairy-like (4 ft. 10 in.) Marguerite Clark retired in 1920, wed Harry Palmerston Williams, late (1936), wealthy, Louisiana cypress heir and maker of fast Wedell-Williams airplanes. Said she of her career: "I knew enough to go home when the party was over."

Died. Courtney Ryley Cooper, 53, ex-circus clown, ex-newspaperman, ex-circus pressagent, G-Manly author (10,000 Public Enemies, Here's to Crime), prolific writer for magazines, radio, screen; by his own hand (hanging); in a Manhattan hotel closet.

Died. WPAdministrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington, 53, onetime Colonel of Army Engineers; week after an operation for an intestinal obstruction; in New London, Conn.; with Harry Hopkins at his bedside.

Died. Dr. Julian Besteiro, 70, Socialist Speaker of the Spanish Cortes 1931-33 and last Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republican Government, who stayed behind in Madrid to surrender the city to the rebels; in Carmona prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for "prolonging the war."

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