Engagement Denied. Lillian Gish, 31, famed cinemactress, to George Jean Nathan, 45, dramatic critic, contributing editor of the American Mercury. Said both: "We are good friends. That is all."

Married. Miss Etienne Lawrence, daughter of David Lawrence, famed Washington journalist and president of the United States Daily; to Herbert Carl Sturhahn, famed footballer, twice (1925, 1926) All-American guard (Yale); in Washington.

Married. Vilma Banky, cinemactress, to Rod La Rocque, cinemactor; in Los Angeles.

Sued for Divorce. Gifford A. Cochran, carpet manufacturer, famed sportsman; by Mrs. Mabel H. Taylor Cochran. He is owner of a "million-dollar stable." His Coventry last year won the Preakness Stakes, his Flying Ebony the Kentucky Derby.

Died. Baroness Nancy Fish Barnum Callius d'Arengian; onetime wife of Phineas Taylor Barnum, famed U. S. showman; in Paris. After Mr. Barnum's death in 1891 she married Demetrius Callius Bey, Greek, and after his death--D'Alexandry d'Arengian, Frenchman.

Died. Edward Charles O'Brien, 67, able diplomat, onetime U. S. Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay (1905-09), in Montevideo.

Died. Charles Frederick Rand, 70, famed engineer, onetime President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; onetime Chairman of the Engineering Foundation; near West Orange, N. J. He was one of three engineers honored by membership in the "Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain," was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government in 1921, was decorated by Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1913.

Died. Clara Louise Burnham, 73, author, daughter of Dr. George F. Root, famed composer of many civil war songs including "Just Before the Battle, Mother" in Bailey's Island, Me.; from heart disease.

Died. Charles Wesley Simmons, 79, onetime sheriff; from a paralytic stroke, in Wichita, Kan. He many times arrested Carrie Nation, famed militant Prohibitionist, was made miserable by her hatchet crusades (TIME, May 23).