Married. Cinemactor Joe Yule Jr. (Mickey Rooney), 21; and North Carolinian Ava Gardner, 19, Hollywood newcomer; in Ballard, Calif, (see p. 32).

Married. David Ellis Lardner, 22, son of the late Humorist Ring Lardner; and Actress Frances Chaney, 24; in Manhattan.

Married. Fandangler Sally Rand, 37; and Rodeo Performer Thurkel Greenough, 36; he for the second time; in Glendora, Calif.

Married. Cineproducer Joseph Pasternak, 40; and Actress Dorothy Hallenbeck (Dorothy Darrell), 21; in Palm Springs, Calif.

Married. Cynthia Vansittart, daughter of Robert Gilbert, Baron Vansittart; and Frederick C. Whitman, son of the late Davis Cup Tennist Malcolm D. Whitman; in San Francisco.

Divorced. By Pulitzer Prizewinning Dramatist Elmer Rice (Street Scene): Hazel Levy Rice; after 26 years; in Reno.

Died. Nathalie Oushkoff Koussevitzky, 61, wife of Boston Symphony Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky; after a long illness; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 71, founder and guiding spirit of the energetically anticlerical, antiwar, anti-State Jehovah's Witnesses sect; in San Diego. A tireless orator, he was a youthful admirer of Orator William Jennings Bryan, affected a high-standing wing collar, string tie, capacious hat. He was legal adviser to Sectarian Charles Taze Russell, leader of the "Russellites," took over the organization after Russell's death in 1916, renamed it Jehovah's Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released on appeal. The Witnesses got into trouble before War II for refusing to salute the U.S. flag. They believe that the Biblical prophecies control world happenings, Armageddon is drawing near, and the Prophets alone will live forever. Rutherford died in a Spanish mansion he had prepared for King David, Gideon, Samson, other Biblical luminaries. He landscaped it with palm and olive trees "so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come. . . ."

Died. Sir Oswald Stoll, 75, British showman; in London. Producer, impresario, manager, he had owned or controlled some dozen British theaters and music halls, among them London's famed Covent Garden and Coliseum.

Died. Emma Calve, 83, soprano of "Opera's golden age"; in Millau, France (see p. 40),

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