Monday, Feb. 29, 1932
Born. To Irving Berlin, song writer, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph Co.; a second daughter. Weight: 7 1/2 Ib.
Married. Earle Sande, famed jockey, rider of Zev, Gallant Fox; and Mrs. Marion Gascoyne Kummer, relict of his good friend and fellow jockey, Clarence Kummer, rider of Man o' War; at Flushing, Long Island.
Married. Tom Mix, 52, cinema cowboy; and Mabel Hubble Ward, 28, circus aerialist who last year made 300 one-armed revolutions on a high bar without protecting nets (a world's record); in Mexicali, Mexico.
Birthdays. Louis Maurer, last surviving artist of the staff of Currier & Ives, famed print firm, 100; Elihu Root, 87; Charles Michael Schwab, 70.
Died. Samuel Davis, 52, "Angel Gabriel" in Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures, who cries, "Gangway for the Lawd God Jehovah"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis. He was the second "Angel Gabriel" to die. His predecessor, C. Wesley Hill, was struck down by an automobile in 1930.
Died. Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole of Hawaii, 53, wealthy, cultured relict of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, longtime Hawaiian delegate to Congress (1903-1922); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Honolulu. Though retired as titular head of her people, she sought their welfare as a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, preserved their traditions at great luau feasts, where she served old-fashioned poi, had old-fashioned hula dances.
Died. Marie Augusta Davey Fiske (Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske), 66, Grand Dame of the U. S. stage; of heart disease; in Queens, Long Island, N.Y. Death came at the home of her secretary, whose mother cared for Mrs. Fiske's 10-year-old adopted son. In accordance with her fervent wish, announcement of her death was delayed 24 hr. No one saw her in her coffin. Only three persons attended her funeral. Born of a theatrical family, Mrs. Fiske began her career at the age of three; it extended, except for a four year retirement after she married Harrison Grey Fiske, until she was forced to relinquish her engagement in Chicago last November. A strict vegetarian, a militant antivivisectionist, she was famed for her fanatical fight against wearing furs. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Producer George Grouse Tyler's: "Mrs. Fiske was the last great actress of our period. . . . Not in this generation, perhaps not for several . . . will the theatre again have a figure of her stature. . . . She stood for values that are not held in high esteem now. . . . She had no poses, no vanities, no petty weaknesses."
Died. Friedrich August III, 66, onetime gay king of Saxony; of heart disease; in his castle, Sibyllenort, near Breslau, Silesia. Unconventional, Catholic, he was popular with his Protestant subjects. While he was crown prince, his wife, onetime Archduchess of Austria, eloped with the French tutor of his royal children. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. Said he: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better." Several years later, cheered by a crowd in a railroad station, he stuck his head out the window and shouted, "You're a fine lot of republicans, I'll say!"
Died. Setsuko Koizumi, 69, relict of Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn); of arteriosclerosis; in Tokyo. In 1891 Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to write articles for Harper's Magazine. Quarrelsome, he broke his contract because the illustrator was to get more money than he, was stranded until friends got him a job teaching school in Matsue. There he married Setsuko Koizumi, was adopted into her family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly, teaches school. Kiyoshi, 32, is a musician. All married Japanese women. Daughter Susuko, an invalid, is unmarried at 28.
Died. Edgar Speyer, 69, banker, onetime board chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., brother of Wall Street's famed James ("Jimmie") Speyer; of a hemorrhage following a nasal operation; in Berlin. Of German parentage, he became a British subject and banker, was made a baronet and Privy Councillor. During the War he was accused of trading with the enemy, and though denying the charges, requested that his honors be revoked. After the War he was deprived of British citizenship, retired to Manhattan. His wife, Leonora Speyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1927.
Died. Florence Kelley, 72, famed humanitarian, ardent reformer of women's and children's labor laws, longtime secretary of the National Consumers' League, credited with having influenced the social policies of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of complications derived from anemia; in Philadelphia.
Died. Benjamin Newhall Johnson, 75, lawyer, banker, President General of the Sons of the American Revolution; after a long illness; in Lynn, Mass.
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton.
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