Monday, Jul. 06, 1925
Born. To Charles S. Chaplin, 36, and Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin, 17, formerly his leading lady, a son (6 3/4 Ibs.) ; at Beverley Hills, Calif. (See Page 14.)
Born. To Eugene O'Neill, 36, famed playwright, a daughter, Onna; in Bermuda.
Born. To Ogden M. Reid, 43, publisher of The New York Herald Tribune, and Mrs. Reid, a son; in Manhattan.
Born. To Giorgio Polacco, 50, musical director and chief conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and Mrs. Polacco (Edith Mason), 32, famed soprano, a daughter; in Milan, Italy.
Married. Herbert C. Hoover Jr., son of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, to Miss Margaret E. Watson, a classmate (1925) at Leland Stanford University; in Palo Alto, Calif. (In 1899, Herbert C. Hoover Sr. married Miss Lou Henry, a classmate--1895--at Leland Stanford University.)
Married. Miss Eleanor M. A. Sparks, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, head of the Cunard Line in this country, to J. L. Mott III, grandson of the famed plumbing manufacturer; in Oyster Bay, L. I. John Davis Lodge, grandson of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, was best man.
Married. Mrs. Matilda R. Dodge, widow of John F. Dodge (automobiles) to Alfred G. Wilson, lumberman; at Detroit.
Died. Mme. George Bakhmetev, formerly Miss Mary Beale of Washington, wife of onetime Russian Ambassador to the U. S., daughter of General Edward F. Beale, onetime U. S. Minister to the Court of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria Hungary; in Paris.
Died. Dr. William Curtis Farabee. 60, famed anthropologist, at Washington, Pa., of pernicious anemia.
Died. Christian Michelsen, 68, first premier of Norway, who took a large part in securing the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905; at Oslo.
Died. Sam Crane, 71, famed baseball writer, once "the greatest second baseman of the major leagues" ; in Manhattan, of pneumonia contracted while accompanying the Giants on their western trip. For many years he wrote of baseball for the New York Evening Journal and was famed for the gravity with which he handled it.
Died. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 81, onetime (1887-89) Governor of Connecticut; in Ridgefield, Conn., of heart disease.