Monday, Sep. 25, 1933
Married. Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), 22, cinemactress, widow of MGM's Associate Producer Paul Bern Levy who last year spectacularly died by his own hand (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932); and Harold G. Rosson, cameraman; in Yuma, Ariz.
Married, Clyde Beatty, 28, famed wild animal trainer (The Big Cage); and Harriet Evans, 24, circus aerialist; in Bristol, Tenn.
Married-Gwendolyn, only daughter of famed Tenor John McCormack; and Edward Pyke, Liverpool businessman; in London. Hordes of Londoners pressed into Brompton Oratory to hear Tenor McCormack sing the Ave Maria ("the song of my life").
Married, Theodore Lightner, 40, contract bridge expert, partner of Ely Culbertson; and one Mary Patricia Smith, 25, bridge player; in London.
Married, Katherine Duchatel Johnson Kugeman, daughter of Author Owen McMahon Johnson, granddaughter of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy Robert Underwood Johnson; and C. Sterling Bunnell, Manhattan banker, onetime (1921-24) Yale footballer; in Budapest.
Died, Henry Maurice John Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry, 19, heir to the West England estates and eleven titles of his father, the sixth Marquess of Lansdowne; when he fell in front of a subway train; in London. He made news three years ago when a London bookie retracted (apparently to save him from expulsion from Eton) a story that he had won $200,000 on the races.
Died. George Marquis Sunday, 40, son of famed Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he jumped or fell from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in San Francisco.
Died. William ("Bill") Brennan, 47, oldtime baseball umpire (eight years with the National League, three World Series, since 1928 with the Southern Association because of ill health) ; three days after collapsing during a Knoxville-Chattanooga game; in Knoxville.
Died, Robert C. Reid, 50, San Francisco businessman, brother-in-law of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; when he leaped 14 stories from San Francisco's Balfour Building. He left a note: "I have felt my brain deteriorating. . . ."
Died, Garvin Denby, 56, retired motor truck tycoon, brother of the late Teapot Dome Scapegoat Edwin Denby, son of onetime U. S. Minister to China Charles Denby; after an appendectomy; in Amityville, L. I.
Died. Louis F. ("Lou") Magnolia (ne Magliola), boxing referee famed for his feline springs and crouches to follow the fighters in the ring; of cancer; in Queens, N. Y. His most celebrated decision: disqualifying Phil Scott of England in his bout with Jack Sharkey (Miami, 1930).
Died. Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, 62, longtime White House majordomo; of heart failure; in Washington (see p. 11).
Died. Francis Hinckley Sisson, 62, since 1917 vice president and mouthpiece of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. ($1,445,000,000 in assets); of heart disease; in Yonkers, N. Y., a few days after completing a term as president of the American Bankers Association. Born in Galesburg, Ill., graduated from Knox College (1892), he went to Harvard for graduate study, then into newspaper work, became editor of the Galesburg Evening Mail, later joined the staff of McClure's to write on finance and economics.
Died. John Gillespie Bullock, 62, Los Angeles department store tycoon, board member of the Metropolitan Water District building the $220,000,000 Colorado River aqueduct; of heart failure; in Los Angeles.
Died. Alfred Sutro, 70, British playwright, intimate of Maurice Maeterlinck whose Life of the Bee he translated into English, brother-in-law of Rufus Daniel Isaacs, ist Marquess of Reading; of pneumonia; in Surrey. The Walls of Jericho, most successful of his dozens of plays, was seen by 2,000,000 persons in England, the U. S. and elsewhere.
Died. Charles Adams Platt, 71, architect, painter, etcher, president of the American Academy in Rome; in Cornish, N. Y. Among buildings he designed: the University of Illinois; Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art; "Villa Turicum," the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick's $2,500,000 Italian palace in Lake Forest, Ill.; Washington's Freer Gallery of Art and the proposed new National Gallery of Art; New York apartment houses for Vincent Astor.
Died. Brig.-General William Christian Heppenheimer, 73, board chairman of Trust Co. of New Jersey, member of the Port of New York Authority; of heart and kidney trouble; in Manhattan.
Died. Raphael Cardinal Scapinelli di Leguigno, 75, Apostolic Datary (the Pope's Chancellor); in Forte dei Marmi, Italy.
Died. Rabbi Yisroel Meier Ha' Cohen. 100, "The Chofetz Chaim," "uncrowned spiritual King of Israel," Talmudic scholar, venerated by the world's orthodox Jewry as one of 36 saints whose piety dissuades the Lord from destroying the world; in Radin, near Wilno, Poland. Thousands of pilgrims sought his blessing in Radin where he founded a yeshiva (Talmudic school). He was "The Chofetz Chaim" (Desiring Life) by virtue of his book of that name listing the forms of slander from which a pious Jew must refrain. A onetime storekeeper, he humbly closed his shop when his popularity diminished the trade of other storekeepers, lived the rest of his life in poverty.
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