Adopted. By Joan Crawford, 33, ex-wife of Franchot Tone and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: a five-month-old boy, named Christopher, She already had a two-year-old adopted daughter Christina.

Engaged. Priscilla Lane, 24, youngest and prettiest of Hollywood's Lane sisters; and John Barry, 35, small-town newspaper publisher; in Hollywood. Her ex-husband is Assistant Director Oren Haglund.

Married. Barbara Bennett, least divorced of Hollywood's Bennett sisters (Barbara, Constance, Joan); and Horse-Opera Player Addison ("Jack") Randall. Her only previous husband was Crooner Morton Downey; Randall's only ex-wife is Louise Stanley (but they were married and divorced twice).

Married. Wealthy Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, 49; for the second time to her fifth husband, Georgian Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, 59; in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Manhattan (they had a civil ceremony May 4 in Key West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw.

Married. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 54, co-author (with James Norman Hall) of Mutiny on the Bounty; and Laura Whiley, 30; each for the second time; in Reno. He was divorced from a little brown woman in Tahiti in 1936; she in Newport in 1935.

Divorced. By Tallulah Bankhead, glamor-girl stage star, 39; John Emery, the leading man she surprised everybody by marrying in 1937; in Reno.

Died. Irene Franklin, 65, tall, exuberant musicomedienne of World War I days; in Englewood. N.J. St. Louis-born of poor parents, she toured the British Empire and the U.S. in child dramatic parts. Featured in the Passing Shows of 1917 and 1918 and Hands Up, she made her last stage appearance in 1935, in Merrily We Roll Along. Married twice, each time to a songwriter, she was twice widowed, and although once reported wealthy, died an inmate of the Actors' Fund Home.

Died. William Harrison ("Sparrow") Robertson, veteran gossip columnist of the Paris Herald; at Bois-le-Roi, France (see p. 44).

Died. Daniel Carter Beard, 90, American Boy Scouts' idol and guiding spirit; at Suffern, N.Y. (see p. 18).

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