Born. To Actress Margaret Sullavan, whose successful play Stage Door was closed because of her confinement last March, and to Theatrical Agent Leland Hayward: a girl, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Brooke Hayward.

Married. Prince Charles Bernadotte, 26, nephew of King Gustaf V of Sweden, brother of the late Queen Astrid of the Belgians; in line of succession to the Swedish throne; to Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, daughter of King Gustaf's Grand Master of Ceremonies, who two years ago divorced her cousin by whom she has three children; in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner, Prince Charles forfeited his rights to the throne, his Swedish title as Prince. He became a Belgian Prince by decree of his royal brother-in-law.

Married. J. D. Wooster Lambert, 48, onetime Secretary-Treasurer of the Lambert Pharmacal Co. (Listerine); to Mrs. Mary Turner, 39, of New York; in New York.

Adopted. By onetime (1925-32) New York Mayor James John Walker and wife, onetime Actress Betty Compton; a boy, eight weeks old, to be a companion to their adopted daughter Mary Ann, 17 months; in Chicago. Name: James John II.

Awarded. To Nikola Tesla, famed Croatian-born inventor of electrical equipment (Tesla induction motor, Tesla coil, Tesla transformer): Yugoslavia's Grand Order of the White Eagle and Czechoslovakia's Order of the White Lion, top honors of those two nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"--but no models, no drawings, no equations.

Died. Howell Howard, 39, Dayton Ohio paper manufacturer and five-goal poloist; of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain, caused when his pony fell during a Meadow Brook Club match between the Foxhunters and Narragansett, for whom Poloist Howard played No. 2; at Mineola, N. Y.

Died. Parmely Webb Herrick, 55 banker (Hayden Stone & Co.), orchid- raiser, son of the late great U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick of cerebral hemorrhage, in Manhattan where he had moved three years ago from Cleveland. In Paris in 1927, when his father welcomed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Parmely Herrick lent the hero a suit of clothes which was returned to him, six months later, neatly pressed.

Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley re-popularized wrestling, had been its leading impresario ever since. For sportswriters who derided his favorite sport, Promoter Curley, famed for his good clothes, his huge red face and his amiability, had an unvarying answer: "I have never promoted a wrestling match that was not absolutely honest."

Died. John Devinney Shibe, 65, part owner of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball club: of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Business manager of the Athletics from 1901. when his father Benjamin F. Shibe and Connie Mack founded the team, until his father's death in 1924, he resigned as president last January, was succeeded by 74-year-old Manager Connie Mack.

'Died. Edward Eugene Loomis, 72, longtime (1917-37) president of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.; at Murray Hill, N. J. Born on a farm in Herkimer County, N. Y., he entered railroading immediately after graduation. Through his handling of coal strikes, he was made senior vice president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1902; in 1917 took over the Lehigh Valley and ran it through the World War as the second largest carrier of anthracite.

Died. Patrick Joseph ("Pat") Haltigan, 74, longtime reading clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Washington. Noted for his sonorous voice, Clerk Haltigan became famed during the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. For the 17 days of the Smith-McAdoo deadlock he boomed out the roll call, beginning with Alabama's "24 votes for Underwood."

Died. Christian P. ("Barney") Bertsche, 74, onetime Chicago saloonkeeper and pre-Prohibition gangster; in Rochester, Minn., where doctors at the Mayo Clinic took him for a retired business man.

Died. Charles Stuart Wood Packard, 77. Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, longtime (1899-1934) president of Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives & Granting Annuities; in Philadelphia.

* Dr. Tesla said last week that he was born in 1856 but his Who's Who entry says 1857.

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