Married. Miss Kathleen McKane, unquestionably Britain's foremost woman tennis player, to L. A. Godfree, noted British Davis Cup star; at Kimberley, while touring South Africa with a British tennis team of which Mr. Godfree is captain.

Married. For the fifth time, Owen Johnson, famed novelist (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.), to the sometime Miss Gertrude H. Bovee of Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton, who died in 1923. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, one-time (Feb., 1920, to July, 1921) U. S. Ambassador to Italy.

Died. W. L. (Walther Lionel) George, 44, famed English novelist of the "Georgian" school (Caliban, Ursula, Trent, A Bed of Roses, The Story of Woman, etc.), for several years signator with his third wife of a saccharine U. S. syndicated "column" dealing with sex problems; in London, of pneumonia.

Died. Mrs. Robert Mowbray Howard, 65, sister-in-law of Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.: near Guildford, England, by drowning in a pond.

Died. David Howard Standish, 68, great-great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower, whose proxy wooing of Priscilla Alden occurred after the death of his first wife and before he married his second; at Essex Fells, N. J., of heart disease. Descendant Standish twice served as Mayor of Glen Ridge, N. J., and carried on an export-import business in Manhattan.

Died. Birchard Rustin Hayes, 72, noted Toledo lawyer, eldest son of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes; at Toledo, of chronic stomach trouble.

Died. Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan; at Tokyo, following an attack of influenza.

Died. Onetime Congressman Grove L. Johnson, 84, brother of U. S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson; at Sacramento, Calif., after a lingering illness.