Monday, Sep. 07, 1942
Birthday. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 62; in England, where she had arrived five days before by air from the U.S. and Canada.
Married. Musicomedienne Mitzi Green, 21, onetime child movie star; and Actor-Director Joseph Pevney, 30; in Manhattan.
Married. Stripteuse Rose Louise Hovick ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Litterateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold out."
Married. Leonora Corbett, 34, British actress, willowy ghost of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit; and John Francis Royal, 56, NBC's burly, explosive vice president in charge of international broadcasting; she for the first time, he for the second (his first wife died in January); in Manhattan. She came here from England after nearly a year of driving a mobile canteen through bombed areas, scored a personal triumph in her first U.S. appearance. Her make-up in Blithe Spirit: dead grey, from head to foot.
Married. Cineproducer Hal Roach, 50, originator of "Our Gang" comedies, now a major in the Army, and Miss Lucille Prin, 29, former ASCAP secretary; at Dayton.
Killed in Service. H.R.H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, 39; in a plane crash in north Scotland.
Died. Belisario Porras, 85, thrice President of Panama (between 1912 and 1924), idolized revolutionary before its separation from Colombia; of chronic bronchitis; in Panama City. Peasants hung the old fire-eater's picture near the saints' on their walls. He led a revolutionary expedition on Chiriqui in 1900, captured the capital of the province in hand-to-hand fighting with machetes, proclaimed himself leader of the Isthmus. When peace came after two years of guerrilla warfare he exiled himself, the next year repudiated the new republic because he disapproved its political character. Later won over, he became the country's leading liberal, as President concentrated on expansive public works.
Left. By the late George Sutherland, retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: an estate valued at $100,000. The bulk of it goes to his widow.
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