Married. Sarah Alden Derby, granddaughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt; and Robert Tileston Gannett II, Harvard Law School student; at Oyster Bay, L.I.

Married. Geoffrey Theodore Hellman, New Yorker writer; and Daphne Bayne Bull; she for the second time (see below); in Reno.

Married. Lieut. John Rockefeller Prentice, 38, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller; and Abbie Blanche Cantrill. 29, receptionist in the Chicago law office which Prentice left to join the Army; in Scottsboro, Ala.

Divorced. Henry A. Bull Jr., Town & Country editor; by Daphne Bayne Bull; in Reno.

Divorced. George Randolph Hearst, 37, eldest son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; by Lorna Pratt Velie Hearst; in Los Angeles.

Died. Arthur Blaikie Purvis, 51, head of the British Purchasing Commission in the U.S.; in an air transport crash.

Died. James Stuart Blackton, 66, one of the first large-scale cinema producers; of auto-accident injuries; in Hollywood. With a partner he organized Vitagraph in 1897. The firm was sold to Warners in 1925 for a reported $1,000,000. Blackton went on relief in 1935.

Died. Dr. William Zebina Ripley, 73, Harvard economist and authority on railroads, longtime foe of big business' secrecy with little shareholders (Main Street and Wall Street), longtime champion of railroad consolidation; in East Edgecombe, Me. Professor of political economy at Harvard from 1901 to 1933, he saw most of the financial reforms he urged finally adopted. When he attacked corporate practices in a magazine article in 1926, stock prices promptly took a dive, and Ripley became widely known as "The Professor Who Jarred Wall Street."

Died. Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, 74, Governor of Bombay (1913-19), Governor of Madras (1919-24), Governor General of Canada (1926-31), Viceroy and Governor General of India (1931-36); of pneumonia; in London.

Died. Harry Content, 80, "dean of Wall Street brokers"; in Manhattan. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1885, weathered five panics, sold the first U.S. Steel common--120,000 shares the first day--created a sensation in 1926 when he noiselessly bought control of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. for Speyer & Co. and a western road.

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