Monday, Dec. 10, 1923
Engaged. Robert H. McAdoo, 26, son of ex-Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, by a former wife, to Miss Lorraine Arnold Rowan, 19, of Pasadena.
Engaged. Charles J. Hubbard, 21, captain of the Harvard football eleven which was decisively defeated by Yale in its final game, to Miss Anna H. Fuller of Cambridge.
Married. Ellis A. Gimbel, Jr., of Philadelphia (Gimbel Bros., dry goods), to Miss Virginia Louise Newman of New Orleans. (Louis) Richard Gimbel was his brother's best man. Six of the eleven ushers were Gimbels.
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of Enrico Caruso, to Captain G. A. Ingram of the British Army, in London.
Married. Mrs. Irene Castle Treman, dancer, 29, to Major Frederic McLaughlin, 45, coffee merchant, formerly Captain of the Onwentsia Club polo team, in Chicago.
Divorced. Mme. Takani Miura, Japanese prima donna, from Dr. Masataro Miura, vitamine expert, professor in Tokyo University, in Tokyo.
Died. Viscountess Morley, 83, widow of Viscount John Morley (who died two months ago) at Wimbledon, England, in her sleep. Her existence was not generally known. There is no mention of her in standard reference works, and she never went into Society. She took no part in his public activities and never went to Court. It is said that when Lord Morley met her she was unable, under English law, to procure a divorce from her then husband, and he (Lord Morley) was therefore unable to make her his legal wife until several years later.
Died. Robert Threshie Reid, Baron Loreburn, 77, at Deal, England. He was Lord Chancellor of England, 1905-1912. In 1907 he visited Canada the first Lord Chancellor to leave England while in office since Cardinal Wolsley accompanied Henry VIII to France to the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520.
Died. Martha Mansfield, cinema actress, 23, in San Antonio, Tex. The flimsy, hoopskirted Civil War costume which she wore as leading woman in The Warrens of Virginia took fire from a smoker's match. She appeared in other cinemas (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Perfect Lover, Potash and Perlmutter).
Died. Philippe Daudet, 14, son of Leon Daudet (French Royalist leader), grandson of Alphonse Daudet (writer), in Paris, suicide, by shooting himself in a taxicab.