Monday, May. 25, 1936
Engaged. Richard Tauber, 44, Austrian born concert and operatic tenor; and Diana Napier, British cinemactress; in London. Of his betrothal, interrupted while he secured a Viennese divorce from his wife whom he had previously divorced in Berlin, Tenor Tauber said: "We are like two little canary birds in a cage who have not seen each other before."
Married-- Prince Aly Khan, 24. son& heir of the Rt. Hon. Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah ("The Aga Khan"); and the Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller. 28. divorced last autumn by Thomas Loel E. B. Guinness, brewing scion and swank Conservative member of Parliament, who named Prince Aly as corespondent; in Paris.
Divorced. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell; by Lydia Pavlovna Kon-doyarov, Lady Deterding, daughter of one White Russian general, ex-wife of another; in The Hague. Grounds: misconduct.
Died. Virginia Van Vliet Insull, sister-in-law of onetime Chicago Utilitarian Samuel Insull; after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. Her husband, Martin John Insull was implicated with his brother Samuel in the collapse of the Insull utility empire.
Died. Hu Han-min, 52, most potent champion of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Canton, China. Friend and disciple of the late great Sun Yatsen, he helped draft China's constitution, codified its basic laws, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's direct methods. Arrested and forced into exile, he returned to China last February on Chiang's invitation.
Died. Arthur Lehman, 63, Manhattan financier (Lehman Bros."), brother of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman; of pulmonary embolism; in Manhattan.
Died. Panayoti Tsaldaris. 68, onetime (1933-35) Greek Premier, longtime leader of the Greek Popular party; of heart disease: in Athens.
Died. Lennington ("Len") Small, 73, twice Governor of Illinois; after a bladder operation; in Kankakee, Ill. During his first (1921-25) term he was tried for pocketing the interest accruing to surplus State money, was sensationally acquitted and reelected for another term (1925-29) with the loyal support of the State's countryfolk who were grateful for Small's hard roads program. In Illinois' last primary he once more sought the gubernatorial nomination, was defeated by Lawyer Charles Wayland Brooks (TIME, April 27).
Died. Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 75, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe; of a heart attack; in London (see p. 19).
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