Monday, Oct. 17, 1938
Married. Martha Raye (real name: Marjorie Yvonne Reed), 22, trumpetvoiced cinema comedienne; and David Rose, 29-year-old composer; in Mexico. Miss Raye's divorce from Hollywood Make-up Artist Hamilton ("Buddy") Westmore became final last month.
Married. Dr. Hugh Cabot, 66, consulting surgeon at Rochester, Minn.'s famed Mayo Clinic, militant advocate of socialized medicine; and Elizabeth Cole Amory, 36-year-old widow; both for the second time; in Hingham, Mass.
Died. Harold Snead, 40, chief pilot of the Eastern Region of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., who never had an accident flying as a commercial pilot; of heart disease; in Newark, N. J.
Died. Captain Herman Koehl, 50, German Wartime flier who in 1928, with Colonel James Fitzmaurice, Irish flier, and Baron Guenther von Huenefeld, made the first East-West transatlantic flight; of kidney disease; in Munich.
Died. Le Roy Newton Mills, 55, Mount Vernon, N. Y. lawyer who was an authority on football kicking, tutor of Notre Dame's Frank Carideo, Columbia's Cliff Montgomery, Yale's Dave Colwell; of a heart attack suffered on University Field, Princeton, N. J. Less than a month before, William B. Lynch, Princeton fullback, expert dropkicker, Mills's pupil, dropped dead of a heart attack on the same field.
Died. Jean Nino Malnati, 69, maitre d'hotel of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, who, like many another famed chef, insisted that he invented Crepes Suzette; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. John Joseph Boylan, 70, Tammanyite, for 16 years U. S. Representative of the docks, warehouses, clothing factories, theatrical lodging houses on the west side of midtown Manhattan; who conducted an unsuccessful one-man campaign to brighten the Congressional Record by headlines, cartoons and comic strips; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Henri Grechen, 73, bearded old Manhattan barber who cut the hair of Mark Twain, Florenz Ziegfeld, the elder J. P. Morgan, Marshal Joffre, claimed credit for inventing the "bob"; after long illness; in Hawthorne, N. Y.
Died. George W. Lederer, 76, "father of the modern musical show," producer of Florodora, manager of Lillian Russell, Marie Dressier, Marie Cahill, David Warfield; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Queens. In the 1890s, when the word "variety" was almost in the same disrepute as "burlesque" later, Lederer introduced the re-spectabilizing word "vaudeville."
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