Monday, May. 20, 1935

Born. To King Christian X of Denmark: a granddaughter, first child of Prince Knud, 34, and Princess Caroline Mathilde, 23; in Copenhagen.

Engaged. Cary William Bok (assistant secretary-treasurer of Curtis Publishing Co.), 30, younger son of the late Edward Bok, grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; and Helene Boericke, Philadelphia socialite.

Married. Mrs. Beatrice Ditmars Daniels, daughter of famed Snake-Man Raymond Lee Ditmars; and John B. Stanchfield, Manhattan lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy); in Scarsdale, N. Y. Both have been married, divorced.

Married. Maureen Orcutt, 28, four-time Eastern golf champion; and John D. Crews, 38, Miami broker; in Miami, Fla.

Married. Max Reinhardt, 60, stage and cinema producer; and Helene Thimig, his longtime great & good friend, member of a famed German acting family; in Nevada, en route to Hollywood, where Reinhardt lately completed filming A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Reno last month he obtained validation of his divorce four years ago in Riga, Latvia, from Actress Else Heims, who threatened to charge bigamy should he remarry.

Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers.

Awarded. To President Frank Jerome Tone, 66, of Carborundum Co., father of Cinemactor Franchot Tone: $1,000 and a medal; by the American Electrochemical Society, for distinguished work in electrothermics (applications of heat-from-electricity, as in electric furnaces in which carborundum is fused).

Died. Benjamin Henry Throop, 46, dilettante fourth-generation owner of the Throop Coal Mines (Scranton and Throop, Pa.), heir to a fortune once estimated at $68,000,000, president of the Shepherd Dog Club of America; of an intestinal ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Herbert Witherspoon, 61, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Co.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Burton Emmett, 63, co-founder and vice president of Newell-Emmett Co. (advertising), from which he resigned in 1928 to devote himself to art and book collecting; of heart disease; in Melfa, Va.

Died. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox. 64, eighth Duke of Richmond, Lennox, Gordon and D'Aubigny, head of a house founded by a bastard son of King Charles II and the Duchess of Portsmouth; at Goodwood, England. Lord of 250,000 acres (including famed Goodwood race track and a forest in which, traditionally, no birds lived), he was crippled by spinal meningitis during the War, got about in a nifty wheel chair.

Died. Marshal Josef Pilsudski, 67, Dictator of Poland; of cancer; in Warsaw.

Died. Edward Herbert Thompson, 74, pioneer explorer of Mayan sites in Yucatan; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. U. S. consul from 1885 to 1909, he found Yucatan's long-sought "Hidden City," a high priest's mausoleum, a temple, the "Maya Venus." His most famed exploit: exploring a holy well (limestone sinkhole) into which Mayans had hurled sacrifices. Diving in 80 ft. of water and mud, he brought up skeletons of girls, ornaments of jade, gold, copper, ebony.

Died. Archibald Ashley Welch, 75, president since 1924 of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.; after long illness; in Hartford, Conn.

Died. Sydney Douglas Farrar, 75, father of Soprano Geraldine Farrar, 53; after long illness; in Manhattan. When his daughter was small Father Farrar played professional baseball, kept a men's furnishing store in Melrose, Mass., sold it to help finance her study in Europe. When fame came Geraldine changed the accent on her name. But her father stayed plain "Syd" Farrar. In late years he farmed in Ridgefield, Conn., where Geraldine also has a home. Custom was for him to lunch with her daily, to eat in his shirt sleeves if the day was warm.

Died. Dr. Alfred Edgar Burton, 78, first dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902-22); of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass.

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