Monday, Oct. 01, 1928
Engaged. Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins, famed Arctic explorer; to Suzanne Bennett, Manhattan actress (see p. 19).
Engaged. Winifred Rockefeller, daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller, of Greenwich, Conn., grandniece of John D. Rockefeller; to Brooks Emeny, Yale instructor of government & international relations.
Engaged. Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress, divorced wife of Playwright Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Guardsman), to Baron Frederick Vilarnyi, Hungarian Minister at Bucharest. When he sued for divorce Playwright Molnar accused Actress Fedak of relations with 42 other men. She replied in kind with a list of 142 women.
Engaged. Gifford Pinchot 2d, nephew of onetime Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brother of Rosamond Pinchot, famed society actress (The Miracle); to Janine Voisin, daughter of Gabriel Voisin, French engineer and automobile manufacturer.
Married. David A. Schulte, cigar store and chain store tycoon; to Mrs. Carrie Koehler; at Stamford, Conn.
Married. Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), famed mammy songster; and Ruby Keeler, tap dancer; in Port Chester, N. Y. (see p.
40).
Married. Charles E. ("Chick") Evans Jr., famed golfer; to Esther Underwood of Summit, N. J.; at Lake Placid, N. Y.
Married. Howard Joseph Sachs, Manhattan banker & director (department stores, realty, silk); to Eleanor Burtis Saxe, staff-member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; on Coates Island, Lake Champlain, N. Y.
Sued for Divorce. Brant Elliott of Three Rivers, N. Mex.; by Mrs. Jouette Fall Elliott, daughter of Albert B. Fall, onetime notorious Secretary of the Interior.
Divorced. Mrs. Margaret Todd Smith, daughter of famed Brooklyn Shipbuilder William Henry Todd; from William H. Smith, Todd employe; at Reno.
Died. Agnes Hart Wilson, 42, Democratic nominee for Congress from Pennsylvania, after an operation; in Blossburg, Pa. (see p. 9).
Died. Capt. Kurt Grahn, 60, of the North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart; of heart disease; on the bridge of his ship, as it backed out of its Hoboken dock en route for England.
Died. Abraham Isaacs, 70, Ohio dry goods merchant & philanthropist, father of six professors and associate professors (Harvard, University of Rochester, University of Michigan, Columbia, Pittsburgh University); in Cincinnati, Ohio. Died. Henry Charles ("Carl") Ramos, 72, veteran New Orleans saloonkeeper, inventor of the famed, much-imitated Ramos gin fizz;* in New Orleans.
Died. George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn."
Died. Sir Horace Darwin, 77, English scientist, son of the famed Charles Darwin (the Origin of species); in Cambridge, England. Died. Baron Jean de Neuflize, 78, dean of the Regents of the Bank of France,
French railway and mineral water tycoon, father of Baron Andre de Neuflize, U. S. representative of the Bank of France; after a long illness; at Tilles-a-Coye, France.
Died. Col. William C. Beecher, 79, Brooklyn barrister, last surviving son of the famed divine Henry Ward Beecher; of pneumonia; in W'hitefield, N. H.
Died. Colonel Edward Colston, 84, President of the Cincinnati Bar Association, railroad counsel, one-armed veteran of the Confederate Army; in Hot Springs, Va.
Died. John G. Nail, 87, Democrat & auctioneer; near Hagerstown, Md. His family requested that no obituary notices be published in Republican papers.
*Fizzmaker Ramos' recipe: 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar; 3 or 4 drops of orange flower water; juice of one-half lime; juice of one-half lemon; one jigger of Old Tom gin (Old Gordon alternative, but sweet gin preferable); white of one egg; one-half glass of crushed ice; 2 tablespoonfuls of rich milk or cream; an ounce of seltzer for pungency; shake till milklike in air-tight shaker and strain.