Engaged. Oliver Morosco, of Manhattan, theatrical producer; to Helen McRuer, of Phoenix, Ariz., Morosco actress.

Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods).

Engaged. Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, of Paris, onetime U. S. musical comedy star, who in 1923 divorced William Ellis Corey of Manhattan, President of the U.S. Steel Corp. (1903-11); to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bourbon-Orleans, Infante of Spain, 40.

Married. Gordon C. Thorne, 36, thrice-married son of the late W. C. Thorne, (early partner of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., Chicago mail order house); and a Mrs. Molin Bolin, 25, registered nurse, of Hammond, Ind.; in Crown Point, Ind.

Married. Katherine Thorne, daughter of Robert Julius Thorne (onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., cousin of Gordon C. Thorne [see above]); and one George Gillespie, cowboy entertainer; In Phoenix, Ariz.

Elected. John Jeremiah Pelley of Savannah, Ga., president of the Central of Georgia Railway; to be president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.; succeeding the late Edward Jones Pearson (see p. 51).

Died. The Rev. Dr. J. Townsend Russell, since 1918 canon of the Washington Cathedral; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Louis Bleriot Jr., 24, of Paris, son of the famed aircraft pioneer; of acute appendicitis; in Paris.

Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors.

Died. Reuben H. Donnelley, 64, of Chicago, chairman of the board of the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (publishers of directories), vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (TIME'S printers); in Chicago. In 1905 Mr. Donnelley was a partner in a stock brokerage firm which went bankrupt. The firm paid 27-c- on the dollar, was free of debt, legally. But Partner Donnelley felt obligations, morally. Twenty-two years later, he repaid his creditors with interest, a sum of more than $650,000.

Died. Daniel Kelleher, 65, of Seattle, board chairman of the Seattle National Bank, president of the Bank for Savings (Seattle); of a heart attack; in Seattle.

Died. Beaumont Parks, 60, vice president of Standard Oil Co., of Indiana; of cerebral hemorrhage; while on an inspection tour in Maracaibo. Venezuela.

Died. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, 71, famed Congregational clergyman, and onetime pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, where he upheld the traditions of preachers Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, after a month's illness; at Bronxville, N. Y.

Died. William Sohmer, 76, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Treasurer of the Society of St. Tammany; in Brooklyn.

Died. Lady Mary (Marshall) Lodge, 77, wife of Scientist-Spiritualist Sir Oliver Lodge; at her home, Normanton House, near Salisbury, England. She once said: "Since 1890 I have believed absolutely in communication with the spirit world. If the other world is not this world seen from another aspect, as my husband and I are inclined to believe, it is very like this world, only much more beautiful. Every woman there is beautiful and she is young. . . ."

Said Sir Oliver: "I did not make any arrangements with my wife to communicate with her after she passed over . . . but I shall hear from her again, just as I have from my son Raymond. . . ."

Died. Sir Vincent Meredith, 78, of Montreal, board chairman of the Bank of Montreal; in Montreal.

Died. Georgiana G. R. Wendel, 79, of Manhattan, Jan. 18; in Mamaroneck, N. Y. Miss Wendel was one of three aged sisters who own Manhattan real estate valued at $50,000,000, including a brick mansion at 39th St. with the only lawn in the Fifth Avenue business district. Her brother John G. Wendel ("The Hermit of Fifth Avenue") tenaciously kept the yard as a playground for his dog, despite offers of $2,000,000 for the property. He died in 1914. Miss Georgiana long continued to walk the dog, to hang the family wash in the yard. Lately she had lived in sanitariums.

Died. Antonio Cardinal Vico, 82, prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites; of influenza; in Vatican City.

Died. John Thornton Washington, 83, longtime California and Nevada newsman, great-great-nephew of George Washington; on George Washington's Birthday; in San Francisco.