Born. To Dr. and Mrs. William Howell Riser Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., twin children; boy, girl. Mrs. Riser's father is John Huston Finley, famed associate editor of the New York Times.

Born. To Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, and Bernard F. Gimbel, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. (famed Manhattan, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh department stores); twin sons.

Married. Miss Martha C. Codman, 60, heiress, of Newport and Washington, D.C.; to Maxim Rarolik, 30, Russian tenor who made his Manhattan debut in 1924; on the Cote d'Azur, Southern France.

Married. Mrs. Marie Hilgartner, daughter of Madame Schumann-Heink; to Dr. Charles M. Fox, of San Diego, Calif.; in San Francisco.

Elected. Dr. Luther Allen Weigle, Sterling Professor of Religious Education at Yale; to be dean of the Yale Divinity School. He succeeds Dean Charles R. Brown.

Elected. Joseph W. Wear, of Philadelphia, onetime Yale athlete, six times winner (1920-24, 1926) with Jay Gould of the national court tennis doubles; to be chairman of the Davis Cup Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association; to succeed Julian S. Myrick, of Manhattan, chairman since 1920.

Died. Victor Alexander Fereld Hay, 52, for one year 20th Earl of Erroll and 24th Hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland, at Coblenz, Germany, where he had been British High Commissioner of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission since 1921; of heart disease.

Died. Fuller Earle Callaway, 57, famed southern capitalist, cotton merchant, 5-and-10-cent store organizer; of heart trouble; in La Grange, Georgia.

Died. Richard Charles Flannigan, 70, Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit; of pleurisy; in Chicago. It was he who presided over the famed Theodore Roosevelt libel case in 1913. George A. Newett, an editor of Ishpeming, Mich., had described Roosevelt in print as a "hard drinker." Damages awarded to the late President by Judge Flannigan: 6-c-.

Died. Eddie Foy, 70, famed well-loved buffoon, star of Cinderella (1889), Sinbad, Ali-Baba, and many another early musical comedy, hero of the Iroquois Theatre fire when he was the last man to leave the stage; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo., while on a farewell vaudeville tour.

Died. George Howard Earle Jr., 72, financier, lawyer, brilliant reorganizer of the Real Estate Trust Co. (Philadelphia) when that institution, on the point of collapsing, was stabilized, and stockholders recovered every cent of their money; in Philadelphia, after a year's illness.