Monday, Jul. 17, 1933

Engaged, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, 24. No. 1 U. S. gentleman jockey; and Laura Elizabeth Curtis, Manhattan socialite.

Married. Max Schmeling, onetime heavyweight champion boxer; and Anny Ondra (born Anna Ondrakova), Czech musicomedy and cinemactress; in Berlin.

Celebrated. The 40th wedding anniversary of Britain's George & Mary; at Buckingham Palace. Royal servants drank the traditional toast in champagne.

Seeking Divorce. Winifred Coe Dix, 25, San Francisco socialite; from Richard Dix, 29, cinemactor; in Hollywood. Actor Dix's explanation: "We don't speak the same language."

Divorced. McClelland Barclay, 42, illustrator; by Helene Marie Haskin Barclay. 23, his model for Fisher Body advertisements; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty.

Left. By General Thomas Coleman du Pont, onetime Senator from Delaware: $17,520,642; to his wife and four children, except $20,000 to the people of the State of Delaware.

Left. By Edward Foster Swift, meat packing tycoon who was instantly killed last year in a fall from a window of his Chicago apartment (TIME, June 6, 1932 ): $10,000,000; to his wife, to his three children and to charity, one-third each. Recent stock rises have more than doubled the value of his estate.

Sued, Gerhard Melvin Dahl, 57, chairman of New York's B. M. T. (subway); by Marion Roach. Atlanta divorcee: for $100,000, charging that he had publicly beaten, kicked, stripped her in his Smithtown. L. I. home and at a nearby inn; in Manhattan.

Died. Joseph Maria Urban, 61, famed Vienna-born architect and stage designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Benjamin Baker, 61, oldtime newshawk, economist, editor of The Annalist (financial weekly) since 1925; of a heart attack; in Hartsdale. N. Y. His predictions of the 1929 crash fell on deaf ears.

Died. Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope), 70, oldtime British romancer who abandoned law for writing in London. His The Prisoner of Zenda provoked a deluge of mythical-kingdom stories.

Died. Frederick Worthen Bradley, 70, longtime mining engineer and prospector, president of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., which earns dividends on dirt containing only 90-c- worth of gold to a ton, produces about half the gold output of Alaska: in Placer County. Calif.

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