Bom. To Princess Anna Ilynski, and the Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas; a son, in London. From his father the child inherits the unlikely chance of someday becoming Tsar of Russia; from his mother, who was Miss Audrey Emery of Manhattan, the millions of his late grandfather, Leather King John Emery.

Reported Engaged. Michael Arlen, whose name used to be Dikran Kuyumjian, famed Mayfair novelist, dramatist, popularizer of green hats; to Countess Atlanta Mercati, daughter of Count Alexander Mercati, onetime Lord Chamberlain to a King of Greece.

Engaged. Howard Fisher, youngest of the seven brothers of the Fisher Body Corp. fame; to Miss Justine Price, daughter of the late Lawrence Price, head of the Auto Body Co., onetime leading rival of the Fisher Corp., of Lansing, Mich.

Married. Philip Tell Dodge, 76, founder and president of the Mergen- thaler Linotype Co., director of the Bank of New York and Trust Co.; to Miss Lilias Sutherland, 45, of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Married. Ely Ney, famed pianist, onetime wife of Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten; to Coal Dealer Paul Allais, of Chicago; in Los Angeles.

Married. Miss Rosamond Pinchot, 23, actress (The Miracle; now with the Reinhardt Co.), niece of onetime Governor of Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot; to William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Colonel William Alexander Gaston, potent Boston lawyer, onetime (1902) Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; at West Chester, Pa.

Married. William Childs, 62, president and owner of Childs Co. (wheat cakes and coffee); to Mrs. Victoria Ludgate Murray; in Basking Ridge, N. J.

Elected. Dr. Frederick James Kelly, Dean of Administration, University of Minnesota; to be president of the University of Idaho, succeeding Dr. Alfred Horatio Upham.

Died. John Angus McKay, 63, president and publisher of The Spur and Golf Illustrated; in Manhattan.

Died. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission to the

Spanish Academy of Letters." (TIME, Oct. 3).

Died. Douglas Haig, 66, first Earl Haig, 20th Laird of Bemerside, Com- mander-in-chief of the British armies in the War; in London; of heart failure (see p. 12).

Died. Ira Adelbert Place, 73, vice president and general counsel for the New York Central Railroad; in Manhattan.

Died. Talcott Williams, 78, famed newspaperman, chosen by Joseph Pulitzer to be the first head (1912-1919) of the Columbia School of Journalism; in Manhattan.