Monday, Aug. 10, 1925
Born. To Colonel William Mitchell, 45, onetime (1920-25) Brigadier General in the U. S. Army Air Service, and Mrs. Mitchell, a daughter (10 lb.); in Detroit.
Engaged. John Maynard Keynes, 42, famed British economist, author of A Revision of the Treaty, and The Economic Consequences of the Peace (which latter book caused a stir in the
U. S. because of its bitter attacks on the late President Woodrow Wilson), and Lydia Lopokova, 33, famed Russian danseuse.
Engaged. Miss Lucretia Garfield, Bryn Mawr graduate, daughter of Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, to John Preston Cower, Assistant Professor at Williams.
Married. Mrs. Guinevere Sinclair Gould, second wife of the late George Jay Gould, to Viscount George St. John Brodrick Dunsford, eldest son and heir of the Earl of Midleton; in Montreal.
Married. William Faversham, 57, famed actor, secretly to Edith Campbell, 39, actress, daughter of onetime Mayor Joseph Campbell of Phoenix, Ariz.; at Huntington, L. I. This is Mr. Faversham's third marriage; he was divorced from the late Marian Merwin Faversham many years ago. His second wife, Julie Opp, famed actress, bore him two sons, died in 1921. Harry J. Walker, for many years manager of the Belasco Theatre, Manhattan, was Miss Campbell's first husband.
Sued for Divorce. Osborne C. Wood, 27, son of Major General Leonard Wood, onetime U. S. Army lieutenant, winner of a large fortune in Wall Street and loser of that fortune at the gaming tables of Europe, by Mrs. Katherine Thompson Wood; at Wilmington, Del. She is at Southampton, L. I., with her children. He is in Florida attempting to recoup in real estate.
Sued for Divorce. Howard Jones, head football coach at the University of Southern California, brother to T. A. D. Jones, head football coach at Yale, by Mrs. Leah Bissell Jones; in Denver, Col.
Divorced. Miss Mary Ellis, until recently prima donna of Rose-Marie, from her second husband, Edwin H. Knopf, play producer, brother of Publisher Alfred A. Knopf; in Manhattan. Her first husband was one Louis Bernheimer. A month ago she suddenly left the cast of Rose-Marie. It was reported that she had strained her voice.
Died. James A. Lombard, 64, "inventor of the mask now used by baseball catchers;" in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Died. Edgar Addison Bancroft, 67, U. S. Ambassador to Japan; at Karuizawa, Japan, from an internal hemorrhage.
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Goldthwaite, 83, third cousin of Abraham Lincoln, close friend of his son Robert, wife of Alonzo Goldthwaite who traced his lineage "directly to George Washington;" in Chicago.