Monday, Jul. 27, 1931
Married. Grace Moore, 28, Metropolitan Opera soprano, cinemactress (New Moon); and Valentine Parara, 32, Spanish cinemactor; at Cannes, France. Some of the spectators: Arturo Toscanini, Lady Milford Haven, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arlen, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Maurice Dekobra.
Married. Mrs. Nora Langhorne Phipps, youngest of the five famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia who inspired the (Charles Dana) Gibson Girl* and Maurice Bennett ("Lefty"') Flynn, Yaleman, onetime All-American football star, thrice before married and divorced (Irene Claire, Blanche Shrove Palmer, Cinemactress Viola Dana); in London. Mrs. Flynn knew her husband in Oregon many years ago, was not divorced from British Architect Paul Phipps until last month in London. A zealous photographer who sought to photograph bride & groom was knocked out by husky Mr. Flynn.
Married. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 57, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., director of Metropolitan Opera Company; and Anna Case, 42, onetime Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano, daughter of a South Branch, N. J. blacksmith; in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Roslyn, L. I., not far from Mr. Mackay's $6,000,000 estate "Harbor Hill." Among those witnessing the ceremony were the groom's daughter Ellin and her husband, songwriter Irving Berlin, whom Mr. Mackay had never before countenanced. After the ceremony bride & groom cruised away on his yacht Manchonoch II.
Seeking Divorce. Ina Claire, 38, cinema and stage actress (The Royal Family of Broadway, Rebound); from Cinemactor John Gilbert, 33. Charge: mental cruelty. One of his alleged cruelties: calling her "a woman of too much intellect."
Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; of her marriage to Rev. Guy Edward Hudson. After the ceremony on June 28 (TIME, July 6), a Mrs. Margaret Newton of Los Angeles, Calif. saw press photographs of the couple, recognized the groom as her legal husband. Last week she filed suit for divorce, while authorities prepared to charge Mr. Hudson with bigamy. Said "Ma" Kennedy at first: "Those other Janes better leave my man alone." Said she later: "I am out of his personal battles. From now on I'm going to be Old Mother Kennedy." County authorities last week ordered Mrs. Kennedy examined for lunacy, pronounced her sane.
Resigned. Ray Long, 53, as editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine and president of William Randolph Hearst's International Magazine Co., which gave him editorial supervision of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Motor, and Motor Boating; as of Oct. 1; after nearly 13 years employment; to become chairman of Richard R. Smith Inc., book publishers, which he organized last year. His Cosmopolitan successor: Harry Payne Burton, 45, onetime editor of McCall's Magazine, currently editor of Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture and consulting editor of Liberty.
Died. Princess Anna Troubetzkoy, 20, bride of Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy; by jumping from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Expressing a wish to see the Seine from above, she climbed to the first platform of the tower with her cousin, Natasha Pisareff, and ate luncheon. Afterwards they went up to the top landing of the tower. When Cousin Natasha turned away for a moment, Princess Anna leaped. Said her sister: "There was no question of love or disappointment."
Died. Bernard Edelhertz, 51, publisher of American Hebrew, onetime (1917-22) Assistant United States Attorney General; by his own hand (hanging); in Manhattan.
Died. Representative Charles Gordon Edwards, 53, of Savannah, Ga., U. S. Congressman (Democrat) for nine terms; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Atlanta, Ga.
Died. Mrs. Katherine Lynch Vallee, 61, mother of newly-wedded Crooner Rudy Vallee (TIME, July 20); after long illness; in Westbrook, Maine.
Died. Right Rev. John Poyntz Tyler, 69, Missionary Bishop of North Dakota; of heart disease; in Fargo, N. Dak. Two weeks prior he had submitted his resignation.
Died. H. P. Re, 75, newsdealer, whose great vexation was explaining to doubters that his short name was authentic;* of heat; in Coldwater, Mich.
Died. Mrs. Mary Foote Henderson, 90, widow of Missouri Senator John Brooks Henderson (author of the slavery-abolishing 13th Amendment); in Bar Harbor, Maine. Resolute, energetic, she was a longtime fighter of short skirts, nicotine, liquor. To set an example to the world she raided her own cellar shortly after the death of her husband in 1916, ordered every ounce of burgundy, champagne, sauterne spilled into the sewer. To publicize the bane of nicotine she wrote books, conducted her own chemical laboratory. Six years ago she startled society by denouncing coming-out parties as "auction blocks." Dominant in Washington society, enterprising in business, she built residences for foreign officials, created Washington's "Embassy Row."
*Othcr living sisters are Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Lady Astor, Mrs. Robert H. Brand, Mrs. T. Moncure Perkins.
*Famed Res: Filippo (1763-1817), agriculturist; Giovanni Francesco (1773-1833), physician & botanist; both Italians.
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