Married. Marjorie Gestring, 19, blonde & beautiful diving champion (Olympics springboard winner at 13); and Edward Harrison Carter, 21-year-old U.C.L.A. student; in Los Angeles.

Married. Pulitzer Prize Novelist John Ernst Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), 41; and Gwyn Conger, 27, Angeleno; eleven days after First Wife Carol Henning Steinbeck's divorce became final; in New Orleans.

Married. George Creel, 66, director of U.S. propaganda in World War I; and Alice May Rosseter, 46, until recently NLRB director in San Francisco; each for the second time; in Manhattan. His first wife was the late theatrical favorite, Blanche Bates; the bride's first husband was the late John Henry Rosseter, vice president of W. R. Grace & Co.

Died. Rudolf Kommer, 55, impresario, long Producer Max Reinhardt's agent in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Onetime correspondent for German newspapers, German translator of U.S. plays, he arranged for the U.S. performance of The Miracle in the early '20s.

Died. Edward Wentworth Beatty, K.C., 65, Canadian transportation tycoon; after a year's illness; in Montreal. Fresh out of law school, he joined Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in 1901, became its president in 1918, resigned a year ago. Under him Canadian Pacific operated the greatest privately owned track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward was a remarkable double -- in face, figure, mannerisms and dress -- for England's Admiral Beatty, World War I naval hero, no kin.

Died. Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, 69, world-famed pianist and one of the half-dozen greatest composers of his generation; of pneumonia, pleurisy and complications; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protege of the late great Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, made his first reputation as a conductor of the London Philharmonic and of the Imperial Grand Theater of Moscow, in 1909 toured the applauding U.S. in the dual role of pianist and composer. An unbending foe of the Soviet revolution, Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 to spend most of his remaining life in Manhattan.

Died. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, 73, pioneer juvenile-court reformer, champion of companionate marriage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In the flaming '20s, his companionate-marriage idea -- essentially a proposal for an enlightened attitude on marriage -- was sensationally publicized as everything from trial marriage to free love, once led to his ejection from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming juvenile-court procedure, set the trend away from formality toward privacy, toward distinction between adult crime and juvenile delinquency, a more sympathetic attitude toward delinquents, a more demanding attitude toward irresponsible adults.

Died. Frank Gillmore, 75, theatrical favorite from the '80s through the 1900s, co-founder and longtime president of Actors Equity Association; in Manhattan. He was leading man to Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Alia Nazimova, was the father of Actress Margalo Gillmore.

Died. James Augustine Farrell, 80, director and longtime president (1911-32) of U.S. Steel Corp., co-founder and chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council; in Manhattan. Rags-to-riches hero in the classic American tradition, he stopped school at 16 to work as a day laborer, educated himself in his spare time, rose to general manager of Pittsburgh Wire Co. at 30, became general manager of exports for the new American Steel & Wire Co. When American Steel & Wire became a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901 he bossed Big Steel's foreign developments, became president ten years later. Under him the corporation developed its own far-ranging carrier fleets, wide-scattered mines, reached a sales peak of nearly $1 1/2 billions in '29. He retired at 70 to put the management on a "more permanent foundation composed of younger men."

Died. Major Leonard Darwin, 93, eugenist, last surviving son of Charles Darwin's five; in Forest Row, Sussex, England. Onetime member of Parliament (1892-95), president of the Royal Geographical Society (1908-11), the Eugenics Education Society (1911-28), he energetically plumped for eugenic reforms, which he saw as Western civilization's safeguard against "slow and gradual decay." He also devoted himself to correcting misconceptions about his famed father, a windmill-tilting job. In 1934 he commented: "As I grow older, my faith in the veracity of mankind gets steadily less & less, and now, in my 85th year, is small indeed."

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