Monday, Jan. 04, 1937

Born. To His Royal Highness, Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, 34, youngest brother of King George VI; and the Duchess of Kent, former Princess Marina of Greece, 30; a daughter, their second child; in London.

Married. Sarah Churchill, 22, daughter of famed British Tory Winston Churchill; and Vic Oliver, 38, Austrian-born comedian in whose vaudeville act she has danced at U. S. theatres since September (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.); in Manhattan.

Married. Sarah Paschall Davis, 24, daughter of U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis; and John Stirling Getchell, 39, Manhattan adman in whose office she once worked as a receptionist; in Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Irene Frizell Isman O'Brien Barrymore (Irene Fenwick), 49, tiny (4 ft. 11 in.) actress, second wife of Actor Lionel Barrymore, her leading man in The Claw and Laugh, Clown, Laugh; of pneumonia, after long illness; in Hollywood.

Died. Elisha Dyer Hubbard, 58, wealthy gentleman farmer, husband of Muriel McCormick Hubbard, the daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick (harvesters) and granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.; at "Lone Tree Farm," Middletown, Conn.

Died. Ernest Sturm, 58, board chairman of the seven associated "America Fire" insurance companies (Continental, Maryland, Fidelity & Casualty, Niagara, First American, Fidelity-Phenix, American Eagle); of coronary thrombosis; in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Died. Henry J. Lawler, 67, San Francisco engineer who superintended construction of Boulder Dam, director of Bridge Builders, Inc. (San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge); after brief illness; in San Francisco.

Died. General Hans von Seeckt, 70, be-monocled, wasp-waisted Wartime Chief of Staff of Germany's Third Army Corps, prime military strategist; after brief illness; in Berlin. Creator and commander until 1926 of the efficient Reichswehr, he smashed the 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch of Adolf Hitler, who last spring made him honorary head of the General von Seeckt (67th Infantry) Regiment.

Died. Arthur Brisbane, 72, daily Hearst columnist; of heart disease; in Manhattan (see p. 26).

Died. Simeon Davison Fess, 75, Ohio's longtime (1913-23) Republican Congressman and (1923-35) Senator, Republican National Chairman (1930-31); of heart disease; in Washington.

Died. Right Rev. Frederick Focke Reese, 82, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia; of heart disease; in Savannah.

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