Engaged. Miss Marion Choate (Manhattan), granddaughter of the late Joseph H. Choate, diplomatist, to Charles B. Harding (Manhattan), great-grandson of the late Jay Cooke, Civil War financier. She attended Foxcroft; he, Groton.

Married. Charles H. Consolvo, 52, owner of the Hotel Belvedere (Baltimore), the Hotel Monticello (Norfolk), the Hotel Jefferson (Richmond), to Mrs. Mary Byrd Coble, 26, of Virginia; at Atlantic City. They planned to tour the entire U. S. as guests of hotel men.

Married. Felton Elkins (Manhattan), son of William L. Elkins (Philadelphia street railways), grandson of the late Charles Felton, ex-U.S. Senator from California, to Mrs. Lansing Kellogg Tevis (Manhattan); in Manhattan. This was the third marriage for each, divorces having terminated all the others. She was characterized as "the first woman in Society to bob her hair."

Sued for separation. John A. Hartford, President of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., by Mrs. Frances Bolger Hartford; in Manhattan. She charged desertion. The marriage of a year ago had, until now, been kept secret.

Marriage annulled. The marriage of Count Jacques de Lesdain, Attache of the French Consulate at Shanghai, to Miss Carmen Beley (Centralia, Ill.); at Paris. Her marriage, at 19, at Chabanor, Mongolia, in the presence of two Belgian missionaries, was held invalid.

Died. Captain Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson of the hero; in Rome. After a period of coma, he opened his eyes, kissed his wife, embraced his daughters, to his son whispered: "Peppino, I am going; you continue the Garibaldian tradition," then died. Premier Mussolini ordered a funeral at the expense of the State, but it was refused.

Died. Leo Claretie, 55, journalist, first husband of Mme. Joseph Caillaux; near Rennes, France. His decapitated body, found by a trackwalker, was thought to have been struck by a train. He had written more than 30 volumes of lectures, essays, plays, short stories, had been Editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, the Revue de Paris.

Died. Winifred Emery, 62, actress-wife of Cyril Maude, smart British comedian; at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, after a long illness. Sir William S. Gilbert, collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in light opera, sacrificed his life in 1911, when 75 years old, in rescuing her from drowning in a lake on his estate at Harrow. Mr. Maude's most recent U.S. engagement was in Aren't We All.

Died. Harry H. Tammen, 67, Editor and part owner of the Denver Post; at Denver, after four months' illness. With his partner, Fred G. Bonfils, he was onetime owner of the Kansas City Post, the Sells-Floto Circus.

Died. Mrs. Charles W. Eliot (Grace Mellen Hopkinson), 77, second wife of the President Emeritus; at Northeast Harbor, Me., after some years illness caused by heart disease.

Died. Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner (Mrs. "Jack" Gardner), 85, at her "Venetian Palace," Boston. (See AST).