Born. To Franklin Pierce ("'F. P. A.".) Adams, colyumist for the New York Herald Tribune: a daughter (he has two sons). Name: Persephone. Weight 5 Ib. 9 oz.

Engaged. Katharine Sargent Hare, daughter of Lawyer-Author Thomas Truxtun Hare (Making the Freshman Team, Sophomore Halfback, Philip Kent); and Frederic McLaughlin II of Lake Forest, Ill.

Engaged. Florence J. Loew, who inherited the Tuxedo estate of her maternal grandfather, the late George Fisher Baker; to Robert E. Strawbridge Jr. of Philadelphia, poloist, whose father, as M. F. H. of the Cottesmore Hunt, was the first American to become a Master of Foxhounds in England. Miss Loew's mother, Mrs. Goadby Loew, was for several years M. F. H. of the Harford Hunt in Green Spring Valley, Md.

Married. Rolf McPherson, 18, son of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and one Lorna Dee Smith, 20, graduate of Evangelist McPherson's Four-Square Bible Class; in Angelus Temple at Los Angeles; by the groom's mother. Present at the wedding were 10,000 spectators. Missing from the wedding because she received no invitation Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, grandmother of the groom, whose three-week marriage to Guy Edward Hudson was annulled last week (TIME, July 27).

Married. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania; and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, second eldest son of Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg, aviator, onetime employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in the palace of Pelesch, Sinaia, Rumania. Girl & Boy Scouts held the bride's train. Dowager Queen Marie wept immoderately. In the middle of the ceremony one of the tall candles fell off the altar, a brown butterfly fluttered over the bride's head. These were considered ill omens.

Married. Prince Vassili Alexandrovitch Romanov, 24, nephew of the late Tsar Nicholas II, son of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch of Russia; and Princess Natalie Galitzine, 23 ; at Whitestone, Long Island, N. Y.

Married. Pare Lorentz, 30, cinema-critic of the New York Evening Journal and Judge; and Sally Bates, 23, actress (An American Tragedy; Sweet Adeline; Up Pops the Devil); in Oswego, N. Y.

Married. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of art-dealing Sir Joseph Duveen of London and Manhattan; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, eldest son of Ship Merchant Sir William Garthwaite who owns the S. V. Garthpool, the last square-rigged ocean-going ship to sail the British flag; in London.

Married. Newton Diehl Baker III, son of the Wartime Secretary of War*; and Miss Keziah Strong, Cleveland socialite; in Cleveland.

Seeking Separation. Mrs. Grace Mackay Tibbett, 34, from Lawrence Tibbett, 34, Metropolitan Opera and concert baritone, cinemactor (New Moon, Prodigal). Married in 1919 after a courtship that began when they were both students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, they are the parents of twin 11-year-olds, Lawrence Mackay & Richard Ivan. Said she: "Fame and family happiness are not consistent. It is not anything more than that."

Sued for Divorce. Wladek Zbyszko Cyganiewicz, onetime (1919) world's heavyweight wrestling champion; by Vila Villi, onetime member of Earl Carroll's Vanities. Said she: "He had a playful habit of twisting my arms around behind my back."

Birthday. Col. Edward Mandell House (73), Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians (55), George Bernard Shaw (75), George Foster Peabody, retired banker, philanthropist (79), John R. Voorhis, Tammany Grand Sachem (102).

Died. Morris Sigman, 51, onetime president of International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; of heart disease; in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Died. William Reid Williams, 64, onetime (1920-21) Assistant Secretary of War; in Richmond, Va.

Died. Lee Kaufer Frankel, 64, vice president and head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Welfare Department, Zionist; at Paris, where he was investigating European old age and unemployment insurance; suddenly.

Died. Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse (Al G. Barnes), 68, circusman, founder and longtime owner of Barnes's Circus; after a lingering illness; in Indio, Calif. He started his show in 1895 with a pony, a phonograph, a stereopticon. A colorful participant at every performance, he would lead the opening parade seated on the head of a mammoth elephant. Two years ago he sold his interests to Circusman John Ringling for $1,000,000.

Died. John Jay Curtis, 74, president and co-founder of Publishers Bobbs-Merrill & Co.; of pneumonia; in Indianapolis, Ind. Bobbs-Merrill published first the writings of Poet James Whitcomb Riley; second, Charles Major's novel When Knighthood Was in Flower. Publisher Curtis invented colored book jackets.

Died. William Levy, 74, Chairman of M. S. Levy & Sons of Baltimore, one of the first U. S. makers of straw hats (after the Civil War); at a camp near Gardiner, Me.; of an infection.

Died. Major General Augustus Perry Blocksom, 76, who fought successively against Apaches, Sioux, Spaniards, Boxers, Filipinos; at Miami, Fla.; of old age.

*Father Baker was decorated last week with the Order of the Crown of Italy.

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