Engaged. Lester Stoefen, 23, professional tennist; and Ruth Moody, 18, Denver-born film actress, niece of Banker Albert Henry Wiggin.

Engaged, Gaylord Donnelley, 24, son of Chairman Thomas Elliott Donnelley of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (Chicago printers) ; and Dorothy Ranney, 25, daughter of George Alfred Ranney, Chicago utilities man, finance committee member and one-time vice president of International Harvester Co.; in Chicago.

Married. Doris Duke, 22; and James Henry Roberts Cromwell, 38; in Manhattan (see p. 59).

Died. Irma P. Eberhardt, 22, moody Manhattanite; by jumping from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building; in Manhattan. Third suicide from the 102-story building (world's tallest) she set a record for distance, landing on a marquee 1,029 ft. below with the violence of a loud explosion.

Died. Hugh Anthony Leamy, 35, managing editor of the American Magazine suddenly, of congestion of the liver; in Manhattan. Unidentified for five days, his body lay in the city morgue while police and relatives searched for him. Died. May Etheridge, 42, divorced wife of the Duke of Leinster; by her own hand (poison); in Brighton, England (see p. 20).

Died-William Donald Lippitt, 49, president of Great Western Sugar Co., largest beet sugar producer in the U. S., president of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association and of Great Western Railway Co.; after a fall from horseback; in Denver.

Died. Arthur Somers Roche, 51, author of popular fiction (Uneasy Street, Find the Woman, The Great Abduction, etc., etc.); of heart disease; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In 1921 Arkansas' Governor Thomas C. McRae declared a holiday on the publication day of The Day of Faith, a book describing what would happen if everyone simultaneously agreed: "My neighbor is perfect."

Died. The Emir Ali, 64, onetime King of Hejaz, brother of the late King Feisal of Iraq and the Emir Abdullah of Trans-jordania; after long illness; in the Bagdad palace of his nephew, King Ghazi of Irak.

Died. Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 81, son of the tenth President of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Charles City County, Va. (see p. 13).

Died. Henry J. Pain, 82, retired fireworks manufacturer, pioneer "Prince of Pyrotechnics"; in London. He put on such spectacles as "The Last Days of Pompeii," "The Chariot Race of Ben Hur," "The Battle of Gettysburg," "The Siege of Vera Cruz," "The Destruction of Jerusalem" and "The Battle in the Clouds." Stringent laws and "safe & sane Fourths" brought reverses; his company was finally sold in 1927.

Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies of an art."

Died. Dr. Herbert Allen Giles, 89, longtime (1897-1932) professor of Chinese at Cambridge University; in Cambridge. Long in the British consular service, he wrote a complete history of Chinese literature, compiled the most authoritative Chinese-English dictionaries extant.

Died. Mrs. Charlotte Prentiss Browning, 97, well-beloved Chicago dowager, mother-in-law of President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission; of complications following an appendectomy last year; in Chicago.

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