Engaged. Jean Georges Peter, son of Marc Peter, Swiss Minister to the U. S. (no relative of Peter's famed Milk Chocolate); to Helen Fairchild Mann, of Boston.

Engaged. Hamilton Eames, brother of Actress Clare Eames, nephew of famed Mme. Emma Eames de Gogorza, onetime Metropolitan soprano; to Marian Bull, granddaughter of Ainsley Wilcox of Buffalo, in whose house the late Theodore Roosevelt took the President's oath of office in 1901.

Engaged. Elinor Dorrance, daughter of Dr. John T. Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.; to one Nathaniel P. Hill of Denver and Manhattan.

Engaged. Rosetta Duncan, elder Duncan Sister; to William Beri, cinema technical expert. Vivian Duncan, younger Duncan Sister, was rumored also engaged--possibly to Nils Astor, Scandinavian cinemactor. The sisters acted in Topsy and Eva, (TIME, Jan. 5. 1925); have long had a pact requiring a double wedding.

Married. Edward E. Paramore Jr., onetime (1923) National Affairs Editor of TIME, now playwright (Set a Thief), author too of Yukon Jake, famed poem printed and reprinted by request by Vanity Fair; to Miss Edith Wellman; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Leland L. Duncan, owner of Rin-Tin-Tin, famed canine cinemactor; by Mrs. Charlotte Anderson Duncan; in Los Angeles. She charged that he loved the dog alone.

Died. Payne Whitney, 52, sports-man-financier; younger (by three years) brother of Harry Payne Whitney; son of the late Secretary of the Navy (1885-89) William Collins Whitney; son-in-law of the late Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay; from a heart attack, while playing tennis; at Manhasset, N. Y. In 1924 he paid the third largest income tax in the U. S., John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Henry Ford surpassing him.

Died. James Stetson Metcalfe, 68, for 31 years dramatic editor of Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket.

Died. Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, 71, son of the late Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, onetime (1873-79) president of France; in Paris.