Born. To Captain Elliott Roosevelt and Ruth Josephine Googins Roosevelt: their second son, third child (his fourth), 7 lb.; in Fort Worth. He is the President's 12th grandchild.

Married. Cinemactor George Brent, 37; and Cinemactress Ann Sheridan, 26; he for the third time; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Divorced. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; on grounds of willful desertion in 1936; in Woodstock, Vt. The divorce was the second for each. Columnist Thompson received custody of Son Michael, 11. Writer Lewis was forbidden to remarry within two years without court permission.

Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Boheme. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague.

Died. Charles Hackett, 52, Metropolitan tenor; after an appendectomy; in Jamaica, L.I.

Died. Sol Hess, 69, comic-strip creator (The Nebbs); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Wholesale jeweler, no artist, he dreamed up The Nebbs in 1923, found a cartoonist to draw his ideas for him.

Died. Louis Michel Eilshemius, 77, self-styled Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A painter for some 50 years, he turned out more than 5,000 canvases, failed to attract either fame or buyers till he was a broken old man. He was then embraced as a cult, made the Metropolitan Museum, sold paintings at four-figure prices. A crippled, wandering-minded recluse, he observed: "It's too late to enjoy my fame." He died in a psychopathic ward.

Died. Daniel Berkeley Updike, 81, typography expert, historian of printing (Printing Types--Their History, Forms and Use), founder of the Merrymount Press; in Boston. Greatest U.S. printer, he put legibility above decoration, was an outstanding influence on modern printing development.

Died. Otis Skinner, 83, U.S. stage star for nearly 40 years; father of Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner; of uremia; in Manhattan. Known best for his high-flavored characterization in romantic roles (Kismet, The Honor of the Family, Blood and Sand), he played some 325 parts in his career, appeared in 16 of Shakespeare's plays, produced and directed more than 30 shows.

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