Monday, Mar. 01, 1926
Milestones
Reported Engaged. Mary Spas, 16, famed because of her adoption some months ago by wealthy Manhattan Realtor Edward W. Browning, who subsequently annulled the adoption after much adverse comment; to one Herbert W. Singleton, 21, of Denver, Colo.
Reported Engaged. Prince Henry, third son of George V, to Lady Mary Scott (see COMMONWEALTH).
Engaged. Miss Margaret L. Du Pont, second daughter of Irenee Du Pont, President of the famed chemical firm of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.; to one Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, youthful chemical engineer. Because he plays the cello and she the violin, sentimental pressmen declared: "Music drew them together."
Married. A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart Menteth) Hutchinson, famed British novelist (If Winter Comes), son of the late Lieutenant General H. D. Hutchinson, to Miss Una Rosamond Bristowe-Gapper; at London.
Married. Lowell Sherman, 40, famed villain actor, to Pauline Garon, 22, cinema actress; at Manhattan.
Married. Miss Helen Macfadden, 19, daughter of famed Bernarr Macfadden (publisher of True Stories, Physical Culture, Dream World, True Romances, etc.), sometime Follies girl, recently employed as a stenographer by her father at a salary of $4 per week; to Alexander Markey, 34, editor of several of the Macfadden sex magazines; in Manhattan.
Sued for Divorce. By the former Irene Langhorne Gibson, daughter of famed illustrator-publisher Charles Dana Gibson, niece of Lady Astor; George B. Post of Manhattan; in Paris.
Divorced. The former Miss Marion Cleveland, daughter of the late President Grover Cleveland, born not in the White House but at Gray Gables, Buzzards Bay, Mass., in 1895; in Paris, from William Stanley Dell. Her mother is now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr., wife of a onetime Princeton professor of archeology.
Divorced. For the fourth time, "Peggy Hopkins Joyce" (Margaret Upton), famed successive wife of Everett Archer (Denver), Sherbourne Hopkins Jr. (Washington), J. Stanley Joyce (Chicago), and Count Gosta Morner (Stockholm and Manhattan); from Count Morner, at Paris, secretly on Nov. 23.
Died. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 58, noted Virginia lawyer, greatgrandson of Thomas Jefferson; at Charlottesville, Va., of apoplexy.
Died. Mrs. David Belasco, wife of the famed theatrical producer; of an apoplectic stroke, in the Manhattan home of her son-in-law, Producer Morris Gest.
Died. Mrs. Lee Collins, 66, step-mother of famed Floyd Collins, who was suffocated in Sand Cave, Ky., in February, 1925; at Cave City, Ky.
Died. Mrs. Gilbert B. Mathewson, 70, mother of the late Christopher Mathewson, famed baseball pitcher. She was president of the local W. C. T. U. in the village of Factoryville, Pa.; at Factoryville.
Died. Professor Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 81, noted statistician, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, contributor of the article on "Probability" to the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica; at Oxford, England.
Died. Jacob Haish, 99, "inventor of barbed wire," possibly the oldest bank president in the U. S. (Haish State, De Kalb, Ill.), millionaire; at De Kalb, of pneumonia.