Married. The Hon. Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor, 24, only daughter of Eng land's famed Lord & Lady Astor; and Lord Gilbert James Heathcote-Drum mond-Willoughby de Eresby, 25, horse-racing heir of the 2nd Earl of Ancaster; in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.

Married. Governor John Garland Pollard of Virginia, 62; and Violet Elizabeth McDougall, 44, his executive secretary; in Winnipeg, Man.

Married. James H. Roper, engineer, eldest son of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; and Elizabeth May Armstrong, high school librarian of San Leandro, Calif.; in San Francisco. Few weeks ago police were sent to investigate Engineer Roper's presence in Libra rian Armstrong's home by Mrs. Evelyn Aylesworth, head of the Physics Department at Mills (Oakland Women's College). Mrs. Aylesworth said that she, not Librarian Armstrong, was Engineer Roper's No. 1 fiancee.

Married. Felipe A. Espil, 46, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S.; and Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden, 34, divorced wife of Oilman John Borden who last fortnight married his secretary (TIME, July 31); in Washington.

Married, The Infante Don Jose of Bavaria-Bourbon, nephew of Alfonso XIII, onetime King of Spain; and Marisol Maria de Lesseps, granddaughter of the late Vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, projector-builder of the Suez Canal, grandniece of the late famed Empress Eugenie; in Urrugne, France.

Married. Stanley Marshall Rinehart, Manhattan publisher (Farrar & Rinehart), son of Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart; and Frances Yeatman Goossens, London-born divorcee; in Greenwich, Conn.

Married. Harry Hines Woodring, 43, Assistant Secretary of War, onetime (1931-33) Governor of Kansas; and Helen Coolidge, 27, youngest daughter of Massachusetts' Senator Marcus Allen Coolidge ; in Fitchburg, Mass. Best man was James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son.

Birthdays. George Foster Peabody, Si; George Bernard Shaw, 77; Ella Alexander Boole, 75; Henry Ford, 70; Benito Mussolini, 50.

Died. Frank William Peek Jr., 51, chief engineer of General Electric Co.'s Pittsfield, Mass, plant, pioneer developer of artificial lightning which he used to gauge the effect of real lightning on power lines; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; near Gascones, Canada.

Died. Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid.

Died. Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, 63, commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, dictator of Manchukuo; of jaundice; in Changchun, Manchuria (see p. 19).

Died. J. Langdon ("Sunbeam") Erving, 65, onetime national saber champion, collector of evidence for Manhattan's Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst in his vice crusade against Tammany Hall; of heart disease; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1892 Dr. Parkhurst, from his pulpit in Madison Square Presbyterian Church charged Manhattan's officialdom with horrendous corruption, was instantly showered with demands for proof and threats of libel suits, set out to get evidence, hired a detective to show him around. Mr. Erving was "the young man in my congregation who had generously offered to join our sordid pil grimage." The detective disguised Volunteer Erving by mussing his hair, encasing his delicate feet in rubber boots, putting on him a red necktie. They visited gambling dens, saloons, cheap lodging houses, brothels where Volunteer Erving saw naked dancing girls, fled in horror from painted boys, got enough evidence to help send Tammany Leader Richard Croker scuttling abroad, indict 67 policemen, elect William L. Strong as reform mayor.

Died. Frank Jenne Cannon, 73, first U. S. Senator from Utah (1896-99), long-time advocate of free silver; of complications following an abdominal operation; in Denver. Son of a Mormon who had five wives, he grew .incensed at the sufferings of his mother under a Mormon marriage, renounced his church, turned Presbyterian.

Died. Stoddard Dewey, 80, dean of U. S. newsmen in Paris; in Paris. He was the only U. S. correspondent to report the rising of the Paris Commune of 1871; lived in the same house with Emile Zola; first used the word apache to designate Paris toughs.

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