Monday, Jan. 06, 1936
Married. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin), 30, cinemactress (It Happened One Night, The Bride Comes Home--see p. 28), divorced wife of Actor Norman Foster; and Dr. Joel J. Pressman, 34, Los Angeles throat specialist; in Yuma, Ariz.
Married. Millard E. Tydings, 45, U. S. Senator from Maryland; and Mrs. Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough, 31, daughter of Washington Attorney Joseph Edward Davies; in Washington, D. C., at the home of her mother. Absent from the wedding was Father Davies, honeymooning aboard the yacht of his second wife, the onetime Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, whom he had married twelve days before in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 23)
Divorced. Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"), 25, clownish Chicago fisticuffer; by Mrs. Roxanne Glickman Levinsky, 20, onetime Century of Progress fan-dancer; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty. Five weeks after their wedding he punched her on the chin.
Died. Alban Berg, 50, Australian composer (Wozzeck, Lulu); of blood-poisoning; in Vienna.
Died. Clarence Day, 61, writer and cartoonist; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. A few years out of Yale, Clarence Day, a grandson of the founder of the New York Sun, quit the Stock Exchange to join the Navy during the Spanish-American War. In the service he developed arthritis which made him a life-long cripple. Despite his paralyzed hands he began to write short sketches and verses, illustrated them with simple, sinister drawings of shapeless men and beasts. He published a number of books, (God and My Father, Scenes From the Mesozoic), became a best seller last summer with Life With Father (TIME, Aug. 5).
Died. His All Holiness Photios II (Demetrios Maniatis), 62, Ecumenical Patriarch and 'Archbishop of Istanbul. spiritual head of the Orthodox Eastern Church since 1929; of tuberculosis and intestinal disorders ; in Phanar, Turkey.
Died. Italy's No. 1 Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them, a project dear for hundreds of years to the Popes and first Papal families like the Caetani. On the advent of Fascism, these plans and dreams were translated into action: the Caetani sold their lands to the State which has now reclaimed and built cities on them, and the 15th Duke retired to Canada, still Socialis tic but wealthy, urbane, unembittered.
Died. Baron Frederic Koranyi, 66 Hungarian statesman and diplomat; Minister of Finance (1919) who reorganized the Hungarian financial administrate: after the Soviet regime of Bela Kun; in Budapest.
Died. James Parks Hornaday, 72, long time (34 years) Washington bureau chief for the Indianapolis News, dean of Washington correspondents ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Sir Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading, 75, British Empire No. 1 Jew, onetime Lord Chief Justice; (1913-21), Viceroy of India (1921-26) of heart disease; in London.
Died. Lieut.-General Hunter K. Ligett, 78, No. 2 A. E. F. Commander; after a year's illness ; in San Francisco. A We Point graduate, he fought Indians, Spaniards, Filipinos, was still a regiment major at 52. As president of the War College in 1913, he taught the small U. Army how to handle large bodies troops. Sent to France on an inspection trip in 1917, he was retained by General Pershing, put in command of the First Army Corps, later of the First Army (over 1,031,000 troops). At St. Mih and in the Meuse-Argonne, his generals was so good that today most foreign critics rate him the ablest U. S. field strategist the War.
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