Engagement denied. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman; McAdoo campaigner and society authoress, to Thomas J. Walsh, senior U. S. Senator from Montana and Permanent Chairman of the late Democratic National Convention. (The New York Bulletin, Manhattan gum-chewers' journal, scored a "beat" on this news item.)

Engaged. Theodore M. Edison, of West Orange, N. J., son of Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor, to Miss Anna Maria Osterhout, of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, a Professor in the Botany Department of Harvard, precipitated wide discussions in 1918 by averring that food could be obtained from sunlight, air, water.

Married. Ralph E. Bushman, cinema actor, son of Francis X. Bushman, famed square-jawed cinema actor, to Beatrice Danti, cinema actress; in Los Angeles.

Suing for divorce. Ina Claire, famed comedienne, from James Whittaker (Manhattan); in Paris.

Marriage annulled. The religious marriage of Boniface Marquis de Castellane, to Anna Gould (daughter of the late Jay Gould), in 1895; at the Vatican, by Pope Pius XI. She divorced Boniface in Paris in 1906, in 1908 married (in London) Helie de Talleyrand-Perigord, later the fifth Due de Talleyrand.

Divorced. Julius Fleischmann (yeast), onetime Mayor of Cincinnati, by Laura Heminway Fleischmann; in Paris. Her friendship for Jay O'Brien, "Broadway (Manhattan) King of Hearts" and onetime husband of Mae Murray and Irene Fenwick, was said to have precipitated the decree.

Remarried. Stanley Field, 49, nephew of the late Marshall Field, to Mrs. Sara Carroll Brown Field; in Chicago. Since their divorce over a year ago (when he charged wilful and persistent desertion), their son and two daughters have sought the reconciliation. Mr. Field is President of the Field Museum, Chicago, which was provided with an endowment and building fund of $10,000,000 by his uncle, Marshall Field.

Died. Benjamin G. Lamme, 60, famed electrical engineer; at East Liberty, Pa. (see Page 18).

Died. Gen. Byron R. Pierce, 95, "last surviving General in the Union Army during the Civil War"; at Grand Rapids,