Marriage Annulled. Preston Sturges, playwright (Strictly Dishonorable); and Eleanor Post Hutton, stepdaughter of General Foods Corp. Board Chairman Edward F. Hutton, granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit to void the contract was denied by the New York Supreme Court, appealed. Honored. George Oenslager, B. F. Goodrich Co. technical adviser, by the Perkins Medal (high U. S. chemistry award) for research in rubber chemistry; University of Illinois Chemistry Professor George Lindenberg Clark, by the Grasselli Medal, for X-ray research in chemistry; General Electric Co.'s Engineer Frank M. Starr, by the $500 Alfred Noble Prize,* for a paper on "Equivalent Circuits."

Left. By Col. William Boyce Thompson, Yonkers (N. Y.) philanthropist: $16,624,600 net. To the American Museum of Natural History, a famed jade & crystal collection; to Brother Joseph Edward Thompson, a $500,000 trust fund; to Mrs. Joseph E. Thompson, $100,000; to Relict Gertrude Hickman Thompson, $7,756,755 in trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph, Mass. Died. Sidney Wilmot Winslow III, 24, Harvardman, son of the president of United Shoe Machinery Corp.; of carbon monoxide fumes in his father's garage; in Brookline, Mass. Died. Gertrude Bindernagel, 39, German opera soprano; of a gunwound inflicted by her husband Banker Wilhelm Hintze, 53, last fortnight as she left the

Charlottenburg Opera House after a performance in Siegfried; in Berlin. Banker Hintze, separated from his wife, said he shot "to teach her a lesson."

Died. Will Levington Comfort, 54, author of adventure stories (Routledge Rides Alone, Red Fleece, Samadhi); of acute alcoholism; in Los Angeles.

Died. Frederick White, 55, second chauffeur of Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills; by his own hand (.32 revolver); in Secretary Mills's Manhattan garage.

Died. Moe Mark, 60, pioneer cinema showman; of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from a Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner.

Died. Madalena Ponzillo, 61, mother of Opera Singers Rosa and Carmela Ponsellej of heart disease; in Meriden, Conn. Having refused to move into the mansion her successful daughters had built for her, she died in their little old home in Meriden's Italian quarter.

Died. Arnold Seligmann, 61, famed Paris art connoisseur, founder-president of Arnold Seligmann & Son (antiques & old masters) with Paris & Manhattan offices; of heart disease; in Paris. He advised Art Collectors William Randolph Hearst, the late John Pierpont Morgan, the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, the Rothschild family, the late Paul Dutasta.

Died. Leonidas D'Entrecasteaux Smith, 65, Attorney General of Tennessee; in Nashville, Tenn. Born in Sparta (Tenn.), he was the son of William Gooch Smith, father of Mrs. Keilah Neece and the late Ucal Smith.

Died. Mary Williamson Averell Harriman, 81, philanthropist, relict of Railroadman Edward Henry Harriman (died: 1909) who left her $100,000,000, in Manhattan.

Died. William Tarbell Ransom. 86, president of Niagara Textile Co.; in Lockport, N. Y. Told that the U. S. climate was unfavorable to linen weaving, doubting Ransom in 1899 started a mill and the U. S. linen weaving industry (now about 8,000,000 sq. yd. yearly).

*Not to be confused with the Nobel Prize (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931).

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