Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Philadelphia sportsman-socialite, divorced husband of Mary L. Duke, tobacco heiress; and Margaret Hickman Schulze Biddle, daughter of the late Mining Tycoon William Boyce Thompson: a son; in Paris. Weight: 9 Ib.

Born. To Novelist Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), 37; and onetime Countess Atalanta Mercati Kouyoumdjian: a daughter; in Cannes, France. A son was born in 1930.

Engaged. Helen Coolidge, 27, youngest daughter of Massachusetts' Senator Marcus Allen Coolidge; and Harry Hines Woodring, 43, Assistant Secretary of War, onetime (1931-33) Governor of Kansas.

Engaged. William Stewart Thomas, 21, son of Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas: and Mary Gabrielle Campbell, 20, Manhattan socialite. Engaged. John Paschall Davis, 24, son of U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman H. Davis: and Evelyn Ames, 23, socialite daughter of Professor Oakes Ames, Harvard botanist.

Engaged. Ruth Kemmerer, 22. only daughter of Edwin Walker Kemmerer, Princeton's famed professor of international finance, reorganizer of foreign banking and currency systems; and Dr. Erling Dorf, 29, assistant professor of geology at Princeton.

Married. Sydney B. Sullivan, 23, daughter of Journalist Mark Sullivan; and Jameson Parker, Baltimore lawyer; in Baltimore.

Married. Nona McAcloo Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted.

Seeking Divorce. Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21, daughter of Steel Tycoon William H. Donner of Villanova, Pa.; and Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son. Grounds: incompatibility.

To Los Angeles flew Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt to converse with her son, there announce the intended divorce. Said Elliott: "For some time my wife and I have found our life together was incompatible. We both disliked the idea of a divorce. But now we are convinced it is the best thing for both of us. ... I am not in love with any woman. I am going to devote all my energy to making good in my life work--aviation." He denied as "absolutely untrue'' reports of a romance with one Ruth Googins, 25-year-old Wellesley graduate of Fort Worth, Tex.

Suing for Divorce. Elizabeth Staley Dickey, 40, first white woman to penetrate the jungles of Ecuador; from Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 57, explorer and archaeologist who in 1931 located the source of the Orinoco River; in Dayton, Ohio. Grounds: gross neglect. Wed in 1925, the Dickeys honeymooned in South American jungles. Said she on her return: ''Oysters, music and having one's husband all to yourself are all that civilization offers."

Elected. Dr. Bancroft Beatley, 38, associate professor of education at Harvard: to be president of Simmons College. Boston technical school for girls, succeeding Dr. Henry Lefavour.

Died. Hugo Brisbane, 15, son of Colyumist Arthur Brisbane ("Today") of the Hearstpapers; of an embolism following a minor operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Eugene James, 20, jockey who rode Col. Edward R. Bradley's Burgoo King to victory in the 1932 Kentucky Derby; by drowning while swimming in Lake Michigan; off Oak Street Beach, Chicago.*

Died. Eugene G. Northington. 53, retired lieutenant colonel of the U. S. Army Medical Corps who as a pioneer experimenter with x-rays first established their danger to the user; of cancer of the limbs caused by too frequent x-rays exposure; in San Francisco. Calif. To check the spread of cancerous tissue he had army surgeons operate on him 164 times, lost both arms bit by bit.

Died. Thomas Tingey Craven Gregory, longtime friend and attorney of Herbert Clark Hoover; by drowning when his motor car crashed through the rail of a bridge and fell into a pond; near Napa, Calif.

Died. Joseph James Tynan, 61, vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. and of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.; of heart failure; in San Francisco, Calif. For Great Britain during the War he built ten submarines in five months, the 12,000-ton war craft Invincible in 29 working days.

Died. Winchell Smith. 61, actor, producer, playwright (Lightnin', Turn to the Right, Brewster's Millions) whose theatrical ventures yielded him $6,000,000; of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford, Conn. With Producer Arnold Daly he introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw into the U. S., was arrested for staging Mrs. Warren's Profession. His first play. Brewster's Millions, earned $1,000,000. Lightnin', written in 1918 in collaboration with Frank Bacon, ran for three years in Manhattan. In 1919 he retired, sold his interests to Producer John Golden. Three years ago he emerged from retirement to direct The Vinegar Tree.

*Though Oak Street Beach is near the centre of Chicago's exclusive Gold Coast, it draws from the slums west of State Street untidy hordes of hoi polloi such as swarm on the public beaches of all big cities. Chicagoans guffawed last week to read in the smart New Yorker this advice to visitors to the World's Fair: ". . . You can go swimming any day in the middle of Chicago at Oak Street beach and be in the best possible company.'' The smartchart had been hoaxed by Mrs. Henry ("Hetty") Field, socialite society reporter for Hearst's Herald & Examiner, piqued when a long-distance "interview" with her by the magazine turned out to be simply a request for handy information about Chicago hotels, nightclubs, funspots.

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