Sued for Divorce-- British Actress Gladys Cooper; by Sir Neville Pearson, publisher of Country Life; in London.

Named corespondent was Actor Philip Merivale, who was bedded with Actress Cooper in the opening scene of last season's Manhattan dramatic success, Call It a Day.

Sued for Divorce-- Maria Lutz, famed blonde halfback on Vienna's "Tempo" female football team; by her husband, Karl Lutz; in Vienna. Charge: she left him to cook, keep house, tend the baby while she played football.

Died. Irving Thalberg, 37, production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After studying shorthand in a Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet, around his wife, Norma Shearer (TIME, Aug. 24).

Died, Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch, 58, famed Russian-born pianist, husband of Mark Twain's talented daughter Clara Clemens; since 1918 conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; after long illness; in Detroit.

Died. Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota; of pneumonia; at Litchfield. A homespun Swedish immigrant, he was proud of his Washington nickname of "yenerally speaking Yonson." Lured into a cow-milking contest once with the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace, he lost by half-a-pint, protested his cow had been milked previously.

Died, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, First Baron Moynihan of Leeds, 70, famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds.

Died. Edwin Ross Thomas, 85, pioneer automobile builder whose "Thomas Flyer'' won the 1908 New York-Paris race (via Siberia) in 170 days; in Buffalo. N. Y.

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