Monday, May. 22, 1933
Married. Robert McBride Cooper, 28, son of General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press; and one Helen Mariella Lovett; in Davenport, Iowa.
Divorced. Joan Crawford, 25, film actress; and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. 25; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: cruelty.
Awarded. To Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, 46, vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (builders of the Akron and Macon): the 1933 Daniel Guggenheim Medal for notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics.
Died. Jose Bacardi, 34, one of three brothers who control the manufacture of Bacardi rum; of pneumonia; in Mexico City, Mexico. Ten years ago Senor Bacardi's wife, then 19, sued him for divorce charging that he drank Bacardi morning, noon, night.
Died. John G. Adolfi, 45, famed cinema director (The Millionaire, Alexander Hamilton, Man Who Played God, Central Park); of a cerebral hemorrhage while hunting bears; near Revelstoke, B. C.
Died. Captain Robert Lawrence Berry, retired, 52, naval aide and personal friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, onetime (1914-17) commander of the Presidential yacht Mayflower; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died. Dr. Martin Dewey, 52, orthodontist, last year's president of the American Dental Association; of angina pectoris: in Manhattan.
Died. Ernest Torrence, 54, cinemactor; of complications after an operation for gallstones: in Manhattan. Born in Scotland, he began his career as a concert pianist, later sang in London comic operas and musical comedies. He entered cinema in 1922 as the villain in Tol-able David, skyrocketed to fame in the part of rangy, gangling Bill Jackson (The Covered Wagon).
Died, Reuben M. Ellis, 54. tobacco tycoon, president of Philip Morris & Co. (English Ovals, Philip Morris, Marlboro) ; of indigestion followed by a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Ezra Joseph Warner, 56, president & treasurer of Chicago's potent wholesale grocery house, Sprague, Warner & Co., vice president of the Chicago Orchestral Association, amiable mediator of labor troubles; of a heart attack; in Lake Forest, Il.
Died, Henry Andrews Cotton, 64. director-emeritus of the New Jersey State Hospital, pioneer of modern methods for treating the insane; of a heart attack; in Trenton, N. J. Dementia praecox, melancholia and other mental defects he approached from a physical standpoint, seeking infections in teeth, tonsils or bowels as potential causes. When he assumed control of the State Hospital in Trenton. N. J. in 1907, he shocked physicians by removing all straitjackets, anklets, wristlets, straps. Friends claim that because of his researches the recovery rate among his patients leaped from 37% to 87%.
Died. Alba Marshall Ide, 66, shirt-&-collar tycoon (George P. Ide & Co.); in Troy, N. Y.
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack, N. J.
Died. Maria Theresa, 70, Archduchess of Austria, Habsburg & Bourbon; at Zwiec Castle, Warsaw, Poland. Beauteous, witty, charming, she was once called the "merry princess" of the Habsburg Court. Exiled during the War, she returned to Vienna in 1920, surrendered her title, went to live in the top floor of her former palace, renting the rest of it to the French Legation.
Died, Harley Hamilton, 72, founder & longtime conductor of the Los Angeles symphony orchestra; after a stroke of apoplexy; in Los Angeles, Calif.
Died. Samuel Marx, 72, Manhattan clothier, father of the famed Four Marx Brothers; of kidney trouble; in Los Angeles, Calif. He planned cloak-&-suit careers for his five sons, but the two eldest and the two youngest, encouraged by their mother, took to the stage. Only the third, Gummo. entered business, is president of Gummo Marx, Inc. (women's dresses).
Died. Sherrard Billings, 74, co-founder (in 1884 with Headmaster Endicott Peabody and the late William Amory Gardner) and senior master of swank Groton School; in Groton, Mass. He taught Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his sons James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John.
Died. Very Rev. Joseph Armitage Robinson, 78, onetime Dean of Wells, onetime Dean of Westminster; in London. Arranging the coronation of King Edward VII, he dared to rebuff His Majesty when their opinions differed. To Edward's remonstrance : "Please remember I am King of England." Robinson retorted, "Remember, Sire, I am the Abbot of Westminster!"
Died. Captain John Edgar, 89, long-time stage doorman at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House; after long illness; in Detroit. Quitting a seaman's job on the Great Lakes in his early twenties, he studied voice in Europe, concert-toured the U. S. When death & misfortune beset his family, he ceased singing, became doorman at the Metropolitan "to be where music was." Amiable & fatherly, he was kissed by most opera divas and ballet girls as they left each night.
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