Born. To Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako of Japan, a daughter (7 1/3 Ibs.); in a wooden hall outside the Akaska Palace, where are born all children of the immediate royal family of Japan (see p. 16).

Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati.

Married. Charles Brandon Booth, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, National Field Secretary of the Big Brother & Sister Movement in America; to Miss Betsy Ross, charity worker; at Webster, S. Dak.

Married. Richard Washburn Child, 46, author, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's magazine, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; to his literary secretary, Miss Eva Sanderson; in Stroudsburg,

Pa. He was divorced from Maude Parker Child in October.

Sued for Divorce. By William Jennings Bryan Jr., 38, Mrs. Helen Virginia Bryan; in Los Angeles; alleging desertion.

Sued for Divorce. "Nicky" Arnstein, famed bond-thief and gam- bling-house-man, by Actress Fanny Brice. For years she sang a song, Mon Homme, with the line, "For whatever my man is, I am his forevermore."

Died. Frederick Skiff Field, 44, son of the late famed poet, Eugene Field, of burns received in an auto accident; at Tomahawk, Wis. Nick- named "Daisy" by his father (who imagined that his son's eyes looked up at him like flowers), Frederick Field never forgot the curious merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam and the cata-maran." Through all his life, with the weakness of one whose childhood has been too happy, he found no other companions whom he loved so well as these. At the time of his death he was separated from his wife, his two children.

Died. Lave Cross, famed baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics who lost the 1905 World's Series to McGraw's New York Giants; in Toledo. Though third baseman, he played his position with a catcher's mitt.-- Died. Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, 68, famed railroad surgeon, one of those who attended President William McKinley at the assassination by one Leon Czologosz in 1901 at Buffalo;/- at Randolph, N. Y.

Died. Mrs. Julia Lawrence, 74, wife of the Right Reverend William Lawrence, onetime (1893-1927) Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts; in Readville, Mass.

Died. Mrs. Georgia Wade Mc-Clellan, 86, who sat on the platform during Lincoln's Gettysburg address; at Carroll, la. On her deathbed, imagining herself again a Civil War nurse, she said: "There's a soldier boy in there [the next room] who wants a letter written to his mother. He's wounded so badly he'll never live. I do wish you'd write it for him."

--Cross was originally a catcher. Shifted to third, he took his mitt with him. With this hamlike implement he was able to stop so many balls that the rule makers made a rule: "The catcher or the first baseman may wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight. Every other player is restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces and measuring not over 14 inches around the palm." tin the house where President McKinley died was born (20 years earlier) Devereux Milburn (see p. 29).