Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. They plan to marry in London in the middle of May, to honeymoon in an automobile. Novelist Lewis was recently divorced from his first wife. Miss Thompson divorced her first husband last summer.

Engaged. Corliss Lamont, graduate student at Columbia University, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, of Manhattan; to Miss Margaret Hayes Irish, of Troy, N. Y.

Engaged. E. Witherbee Black, son of Witherbee Black, of Southport, Conn., president of Black Starr & Frost (jewelry, trophies); to Miss Ruth Dean Montgomery of Manhattan.

Engaged. Henry Belin du Pont, assistant treasurer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (celluloid, gunpowder, paints, rubber goods), of Wilmington, Del.; to Miss Margaret Wilson Lewis, of San Antonio, Texas.

Engaged. Zenas Crane Colt, son of Samuel Colt of Pittsfield, Mass., and great nephew of the late U. S. Senator W. Murray Crane; to Miss Cynthia Means, of Brookline, Mass.

Married. Miss Jean Conover Norwood, daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Norwood, famed Manhattan pastor; to Malcolm Campbell McMaster, son of Rev. Edward A. McMaster, Williamstown pastor; in Manhattan; by their fathers.

Married. Prince Otto von Bismarck, 31, grandson of the Iron Chancellor of Germany, First Secretary to the German Legation in Stockholm; to Miss Anna Marie Tengbom, daughter of a Stockholm architect; at Berlin Cathedral. President von Hindenburg, Foreign Minister Streseman, Ministers Keudell, Schiele, Kock and many another notable attended.

Married. Richard Barthelmess, famed cinemactor (The Patent Leather Kid, Broken Blossoms, The Bright Shawl) and onetime husband of Dancer Mary Hay: to Mrs. Jessie Haynes Sargeant, 27, of New York; at Reno, Nev.

Sued for Divorce. Harry Langdon, famed baby-face cinecomedian (Long Pants, The Chaser, etc.), by Mrs. Frances Langdon of Los Angeles. They have been married twenty-four years.

Divorced. Paul Poiret. dressmaker, of Paris; and his wife, Denise Louise Poiret, once his "inspiration," of whom he said "I make for my wife the gowns and hats that express my creed;" at Paris. M. Poiret charged that his wife's attitude was injurious; Mme. Poiret countercharged, that her husband was cruel.

Elected. Elmer T. McCleary, expert steelmaking vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.; to be president of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.; to succeed Thomas J. Bray, resigned.

Elected. Leon R. German, general manager of the Peerless Motor Car Corp.; to be president of the corporation; succeeding Edward Ver Linden.

Elected. Charles F. Meyer, 64, of Katonah, N. Y.; to be president of the Standard Oil Co. of New York. (See p. 26.)

Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly.

Died. Jacob Franks, onetime pawnbroker, millionaire, father of Bobby Franks, who was kidnaped and killed in 1924 by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, sons of friends of Mr. Franks; of grief; in Chicago.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, missionary, onetime president of St. Paul's University, Tokyo, and first Japanese Bishop of the Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catholic Church of Japan), of heart disease; in Tokyo. Consecrated Bishop in Dec. 1923, his first act was to set about the restoration of his diocese, laid waste by earthquake three months before.

Died. Charles Sims, R. A., 55, famed English artist; by drowning, in the River Tweed, near Melrose, Scotland. Four years ago he was hotly discussed because his portrait of a skinny-shanked King George V was declined by the trustees of the Royal Academy, on whose order it had been painted.

Died. Howard Ford Thurber, 58, onetime (1919-24) president of the New York Telephone Co. and for 37 years a leader in the telephone industry; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Arthur Amory Houghton, 61, glass manufacturer (Corning Glass Co.), brother of Alanson Bigelow Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; following a year-long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. George W. Niedringhaus, 63, pioneer steelman, president of the National Enameling & Stamping Co. of Granite City, Ill., the town built around his steel industries; suddenly, of heart disease, in Granite City.

Died. Samuel B. Upton, 64, village barber, father of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, and father-in-law of her four successive husbands; suddenly, of paralysis; at Farmville, Va.

Died. Baron Kichachiro Okura, 91, millionaire merchant of Tokyo, in control of some 63 firms (hotels, theatres, steamships, shoe factories, breweries, etc.) in China and Japan; at Tokyo. Baron Okura spent $1,000,000 in a five day celebration on his 88th birthday; at 91 he proclaimed his longevity due to a diet of rice and eels.