Monday, Jun. 28, 1943

Married. Agnes George de Mille, 34, smart choreographer; and U.S. Army Air Forces Lieut. Walter Prude, 33; each for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Daughter of Hollywoodsman William de Mille (Cecil's brother), she devised the dances for Broadway's current musical smash, Oklahoma.

Married. Dorothy Thompson, 48, columnist; and Maxim Kopf, 51, refugee Czech artist; each for the third time; in Barnard, Vt. She divorced Sinclair Lewis last year, Austrian writer Josef Bard in 1927. After the bridal supper, the groom put on tights, did a one-man wrestling act.

Divorced. Lionel Atwill, 58, onetime matinee idol; by Henrietta Louise Cromwell Atwill, fiftyish, ex-wife of General Douglas MacArthur; after 13 years of marriage (third for each); in Washington, D.C. She is a sister of onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell.

Divorced. Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, 65, famed dapper tapper; by Fannie Clay Robinson; after 20 years; in Reno.

Died. Sigrid Onegin, 52, famed contralto; in Lugano, Switzerland. Born in Stockholm, of German and Huguenot extraction, the statuesque diva was a U.S. opera and concert favorite from 1922 to 1938.

Died. Bayard Veiller, 74, mystery dramatist (Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair, The Trial of Mary Dugan) ; in Manhattan. Veiller left college for a newspaper job, wrote Within the Law in 1911, sold it outright for $3,750, saw it make $500,000 on the stage.

Died. Reginald Bathurst ("Reggie") Birch, 87, famed Victorian illustrator; in The Bronx Home for Incurables. Born in London, Bon Vivant Birch illustrated scores of magazines and books. For his drawings for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy (which brought its author $350,000), Birch said he got $400 and two theater tickets.

Died. Albert Bushnell ("Bushy") Hart, 88, venerable Harvard historian, classroom reference from coast to coast; in Cambridge, Mass. Graduated from Harvard in 1880, a teacher there for 40 years, Professor Hart took into retirement in 1926 the longest beard in the university's history.* Author and editor of over 100 volumes on U.S. history (The American Nation, Source Book of American History), he greatly admired his classmate Theodore Roosevelt, was a great authority on Geoige Washington.

*Harvard beard No. 1 now belongs to Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis lecturer in history of Italian civilization.

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