Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes, 30, actress of stage (The Moon Is Blue) and screen (I Remember Mama), and Windsor Lewis, 34, summer-theater producerdirector: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 5 Ibs. 11 oz.

Born. To Judy Canova, 36, hillbilly screen and radio (The Judy Canova Show) comedienne, and Philip Rivero, 39, wealthy Cuban importer: their first child, a daughter. Name: Diana. Weight: 8 Ibs. 14 1/2 oz.

Marriage Revealed. Ethel Merman, 44, trumpet-voiced songstress of stage & screen (Call Me Madam); and Robert Forman Six, 45, oilman president of Continental Air Lines; he for the second time, she for the third (her second marriage, to American Weekly Publisher Robert D. Levitt, ended in divorce last year); in Mexicali, Mexico, on March 9.

Married. Sir Alexander Korda, 59, British cinemogul (The Third Man, Breaking Through the Sound Barrier); and Alexandra Irene Boycun, 23, farm-bred Canadian singer; he for the third time, she for the first; in a surprise civil ceremony at Vence, in southern France. Said Moviemaker Korda: "She has never played in a film, and never will."

Divorced. By Diana Lynn, 26, cinemingenue (Meet Me at the Fair): John C. Lindsay, 35, Beverly Hills architect; after 4 1/2 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, 60, longtime international tennis champion and one of the U.S.'s great athletes; of a heart attack; in Hollywood (see SPORT).

Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan.

Died. James Shelley Hamilton, 69, composer of the famed college ballad Lord Jeffrey Amherst, and pioneer Hollywood scriptwriter (The Perils of Pauline); of uremic poisoning; in Rutland, Vt.

Died. William Farnum, 76, oldtime idol of the silent screen; in Los Angeles. Making his cinema debut in The Spoilers (1914), He-Man Farnum outpunched Villain Tom Santschi in the-movies' first bloody balcony-to-street saloon brawl, spent three days in the hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruises, bent ribs. In the early '20s Farnum made as much as $520,000 a year, lost $2,000,000 in the '29 crash, survived the transition to sound to play supporting roles (Samson and Delilah).

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