Engaged

Engaged. Charlotte Delight Vanderlip, daughter of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime (1909-19) President of the National City Bank, Manhattan; to one Norton Conway of Manhattan.

Engaged. Prince Max von Hohen-berg, son of Serbian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (whose murder was the immediate cause of the World War); to Countess Elizabeth Van Waldburg-Wolfegg.

Engagement Broken. Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress; with Bojidar Pouritch, onetime Jugoslav consul in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 1). Reported reason: M. Pouritch is not of noble blood.

Married. Lucille Quarry, of the editorial staff of the Woman's Home Companion, to Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park, Washington, who returned last fortnight from Africa with 1,700 live wild animals (TIME, Nov. 8).

Married. Barbara Sands, granddaughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt; to Lieut. George Raymond Burgess, U. S. A.; secretly, in Baltimore. The bride gave her name as Ann B.

Married. Hilles Morris, daughter of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Morris Jr., to Louis Gordon Hamersley, sportsman; in Manhattan.

Married. Maude Emery Smith, 58, widow of Alfred Holland Smith, onetime section foreman, onetime President of the New York Central lines; to one Harold F. Le Baron, 37, interior decorator.

Married. Edgar Lee Masters, 57, author of Spoon River Anthology and more recently of prose; to Ellen F. Coyne, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.; in Manhattan. It was the groom's second marriage, his first wife, Helen Jenkins Masters, of Chicago, having divorced him in 1923.

Married. Ethel Pryke, "Lady Mayoress of London," daughter of Lord Mayor Sir William Pryke, to one Cyril Turner, lawyer; in St. Paul's Cathedral, by Dean Inge. Owing to the illness of her father, the bride could not ride in his ceremonial coach, which must only be used when the Lord Mayor is passenger. She traveled, however, in an excellent black coach, embossed with the city's coat of arms. She was accompanied by aldermen, coachmen, constables and the City Remembrancer, who were dressed in wigs and full ancient panoply. Married. Robert Wales Emmons III, employe of J. P. Morgan & Co., son of famed yachtsman Robert Wales Emmons II, to Frances Stephenson Weld; in Boston.

Died. Jason Franklin Chase, 54, internationally famed Cerberus of public morals, 19 years Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society; in West Roxbury, Mass., of pneumonia and shock. His field of supervision included narcotics, prostitution, gambling, literature. His status was both private and official. Member of the Massachusetts Committee on Sex Publications, he was four times appointed by President Wilson delegate to the International Purity Federation.

Died. James Keteltas Hackett, 57, actor; in Paris, of heart disease, the day before he was to have appeared in Macbeth before the King and Queen of England.

Died. Roscoe Brunner, until recently Chairman of the great chemical firm of Brunner Mond & Co.; at Green Cottage, Roehampton, Eng., country house of his son-in-law Prince Ferdinand of Liechtentein; after murdering his own wife and then shooting himself. Allegedly the cause of this murder-suicide was ill health aggravated by business worries (see p. 34).

Died. William E. Fothergill, 61, famed gynecologist; in Manchester, Eng., suddenly. Addressing banqueters, he remarked just before he died: "I have enjoyed tonight one of the best dinners I can remember."

Died. Frederick Waeir Stevens, 61, lawyer, financier, (onetime counsel for J. P. Morgan & Co.); in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Died. Edward Cummings, 65, ministerial associate of Edward Everett Hale (author of The Man Without a Country), and father of E. E. Cummings, modernist poet;* instantaneously, at Ossipee, N. H., when struck by a train, in blinding snow. A year or so ago, three brothers named Manning, prominent residents of Manchester, N. H., were instantly killed when struck by Henry Ford's special train, not far from Ossipee, N. H., in blinding snow. Died. Annie Oakley, ("Little Sureshot"), 66, famed markswoman; at Greenville, Ohio (see P. 10).

Died. Arthur Wallace Dunn, 67, veteran newspaper correspondent, organizer of National Press Club; in Washington, of complications following a mastoid operation.

Died. William Smith, 125, oldest man in the British Empire, perhaps in the world; at Bromara, County Down, Ireland.

Born. To Jennie and Jack, New York zoo giraffes; a male offspring, Shorty, five feet, nine inches.

*Poet Cummings believes that subtle psychological effects are derived from an odd appeal to the eye. These are the first two divisions (he would not call them stanzas) of his representative poem Maison : my love is building a building around you, a frail slippery house, a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile) a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison (building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth )