Married. Natalia Calles, daughter of Mexican President Plutarco Calles; to one Carlos Herrera; by a civil ceremony in Mexico City (see p. 16). Married. James Orr Denby, nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, and lately appointed Second Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Peking;* to Phyllis Cochran, in Philadelphia. He in turn was to be best man for his best man, brother Charles, who will marry Rosamond Reed, daughter of Senator David A. Reed (Pa.).

Married. Allison C. Roebling, great-granddaughter of Brooklyn bridgebuilder John A. Roebling; to Joseph van der Elst, second secretary of the Belgian Embassy; in Washington, D. C. Princess Ida Cantacuzene was a bridal attendant. The best man was Count de Buisseret, grandson of the late U. S. General John C. Story.

Married. Mimi Brokaw, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan clothier; to Richard Derby Tucker, grandson of the late Dr. Richard Derby; in Manhattan. Died. Trajan Grosavescu, Rumanian tenor, after singing "Woman is Fickle" in Rigoletto; shot by his wife in a jealous rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt, 70, dynamite expert, suddenly, at Peabody, Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 85, historian-critic, Danish Jew, "Dean of European culture"; following an intestinal operation, in Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized history. In 1914 he was exhausted by a brief but strenuous visit to the U. S. On seeing the Statue of Liberty he remarked: "Is that all the liberty you have?" This was taken as a joke, but nine years later he said: "Nowhere is social liberty less in evidence. ..." A 40-year friendship with Georges Clemenceau was broken during the War, when Critic Brandes was accused of lack of sympathy for the Allies. In 1921 he declared that Europe was finished and American domination of the world had begun. A man without a church* he wrote "Jesus: A Myth" in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 20). Died. Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, father of Rhode Island Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, and grandson of U. S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry, signer of: the Declaration of Independence; of heart failure following a broken hip, in Manhattan. As onetime president of the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, he deplored the fact that he inspired fear in juvenile delinquents and was known as the dreaded "Gerry Man." When this idea gradually disappeared, he was delighted.

*His father Charles Denby, retired consul general, also started his career as second secretary in Peking.

*He never attended a synagogue, incurred the animosity of the Roman Catholic Church, was separated by his criticism from the Danish Protestant Church.