Monday, Jan. 30, 1933
Born. To Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, Chicago chicle and baseball tycoon; and Helen Atwater Wrigley; a first son, third child; in Chicago. Name: William.
Born. To Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29, Columbia (S. C.) murderess whose death sentence was commuted last fortnight to life imprisonment; a daughter. Weight: / Ib. Name: Frances Joan Snipes. The judge: "The child, of course, is not sentenced to the penitentiary." The hospital: "What to do with the baby is the penitentiary's problem, not ours'."
Born. To the Aga Khan III, 57, Indian prince, sportsman, direct descendant of Mohammed and spiritual leader of all Ismaili Moslems; and the Begum Aga Khan, 34, his Roman Catholic wife, one-time French dressmaker; a son. their first; in the American Hospital. Paris. Name: Sadruddin Aga. The Aga Khan's legal and spiritual heir remains his son AH. 26, resident of England, by a first wife.
Married. Montagu Collet Norman, 61, longtime (since 1920) Governor of the Bank of England; and Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens Worsthorne, 33, divorced welfare worker, member of the London County Council, granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon; furtively, day after announcement of engagement; in London at the dingy Chelsea Registry Office.
Divorced, Film Actor Maurice Chevalier; and Yvonne Vallee Chevalier; by a double divorce disallowing alimony to Mme Chevalier; in Paris. Onetime Parisian co-dancers, 1927 "lovebird" couple. they split on Chevalier's Hollywood-mania, Mme Chevalier's "extreme"' jealousy.
Sued. James Alexander Stillman one-time president of Manhattan's National City Bank; by one Luc Rochefort. one-time Montreal broker; for a reported $1.000.000 for alienating the affections of Marjorie Baker Rochefort, separated wife, in Manhattan.
Died. Edwin Gruhl, 46, president of North American Co. (potent public utility holding); of coronary thrombosis, suddenly; in Manhattan.
Died. Kate Meyrick, sixtyish, mother of eight, London night club proprietor; of influenza; at the home of a son-in-law, the Earl of Kinnoull; in London. Choice hostesses at her clubs (Silver Slipper, 43 Club) were her daughters, available only to the socially & politically eminent. She served five prison terms for selling liquor without a license, for bribing police.
Died. Thomas J Maloney, 73. onetime (1911-24) president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Golds, Helmar, Mogul. Murad); of pneumonia, complicated by heart disease and grief over his wife's death last fortnight; in Teaneck, N. J.
Died. Elisabeth Marbury, 76, New York Democratic National Committee- woman, playwright's agent, author (My Crystal Ball); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spinster suffraget. she once retorted to the Lucy Stone League: "I've been trying hard for 50 years to change my name without success." She was an anti-Prohibitionist ("all wet"), good friend & backer since 1918 of Alfred Emanuel Smith.
Died. George Moore, 80, famed Irish novelist, last of the great Parisian Victorians; of old age; in his Ebury Street house in London Devotee of 19th Century Bohemianism, he exhibited Latin Quarter candor in his essays (Confessions of a Young Man, Conversations in Ebury Street), French classicism and Flaubert realism, in his novels (Esther Waters, Heloise and Abelard, The Brook Kerith).
Died. Louis Comfort Tiffany, 84, painter, inventor & manufacturer of "Tiffany Favrile Glass," founder of the $1,000,000 Oyster Bay (N. Y.) haven for art students; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
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