Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, U. S. Wartime draft dodger resident in Germany, and Bertha Bergdoll: a daughter, their fifth child, the first born in the U. S.; in Philadelphia.

Married. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 58, famed British astrophysicist, cosmologist, popularizer (The Mysterious Universe, Through Space and Time); and Susi Hock, 24, comely Viennese organist. Sir James's U. S.-born first wife, who died in 1934, left him a fortune of $475,000.

Divorcing. Dorothy Gish, stage and screen actress: James Rennie, actor (Murder at the Vanities) ; in Bridgeport, Conn. She testified that he came home intoxicated on weekends, woke her up, babbled incoherently for hours, caused her to lose sleep and have fits of hysterical laughter, once induced an attack of hiccoughs that lasted six days.

Divorced. By Jean Harlow Carpenter Bello, 40, mother of Cinemactress Jean Harlow: Marino Bello, fiery-tempered second husband who used to pose as Miss Harlow's chauffeur; in Los Angeles.

Divorced, LeBaron Colt, firearms scion, grandson of Rhode Island's onetime Senator LeBaron Bradford Colt; by Frances Jackson Reynolds Colt, daughter of North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.

Left. By William Wallace Atterbury, onetime president of Pennsylvania R. R. (TIME, Sept. 30) : personal and real estate of $357,000 "and upward"; partly in trust, partly outright, to his wife.

Left. By Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, horse-racing whiskey tycoon (TIME, Aug. 19): $35,000,000, mostly to his daughter, who paid an estate tax of $17,500,000.

Died, William A. Brady Jr., 35, son of the Manhattan theatrical producer and of Actress Grace George, half-brother of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Katharine Alexander, onetime partner of Producer Dwight Deere Wiman, with whom he staged The Road to Rome, The Command To Love, The Little Show; mysteriously in a borrowed bungalow which burned to the ground; near Colts Neck, N. J. Burned away except for the torso and one leg, the body was found in the smoking ruins near a melted half-pint flask, an automatic pistol with five cartridges in the magazine exploded, apparently by heat. Miss George stopped the run of Kind Lady in which she had the leading role.

Died. Charles Siedler Patterson, 71, manager since 1896 of fashionable Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; in Tuxedo Park. When the late Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard set up a shooting box on the site in 1887, Patterson and his father became his friends, grew intimate also with Parrimans, Tilfords, Rogerses, Wagstaffs, Bakers. The Tuxedo colony grew up under Patterson supervision. Charles Patterson was head of the bank, the fire department, the park association helped run the hospital, horse show, kennel club.

Died. Henry Peter Hansell, 72, Extra Gentleman Usher to King George V, one-time tutor of Edward of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Nicholas of Rumania; in Bletchingly, Surrey.

Died. Ernest P. Bicknell, 73, vice chairman of the American Red Cross, longtime director of disaster relief (San Francisco quake & fire of 1906, Sicilian quake of 1908, many a Mississippi and Ohio Valley flood, Wartime operations abroad); of heart disease; in Washington.

Died, Edgar Lewis Marston, 75, retired Los Angeles banker, broker, oil promoter, co-founder of Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co. and longtime member of Blair & Co. (later Bancamerica-Blair Corp.), father-in-law of Singer Lawrence Tibbett; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

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