Monday, Nov. 07, 1938
Born. To Ernst Lubitsch, 46, famed cinema director (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife); and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress and Script Writer Vivian Gave: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.
Married. Captain Bruno Mussolini, 21, second son of Il Duce, Italian Royal Air Force pilot who found bombing the Ethiopians "most diverting"; and Gina Ruberti, 21, doe-eyed daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome.
Married. Albert Davis Lasker, 58, principal owner and former president of the Lord & Thomas advertising agency, co-founder of the University of Chicago's Lasker Foundation for Medical Research; and Doris Kenyon Sills Hopkins, 41, onetime cinemactress (Monsieur Beaucaire), concert singer, widow of the late Cinemactor Milton Sills; he for the second, she for the third time; in Manhattan. Fortnight before, Adman Lasker had been proposed as head of a committee to regulate Hollywood Producers' conduct (TIME, Oct. 31).
Married. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 64, Canterbury Cathedral's "Red Dean" ("There is more Christianity in Soviet Russia and Red Spain than there is in England"); and 31-year-old Nowell Mary Edwards, his second cousin; at Craven Arms, Shropshire.
Died. Alma Gluck (real name: Reba Fiersohn Gluck Zimbalist), 54, famed Rumanian-born soprano, wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, mother of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the early days of the phonograph some singers' voices did not register well in certain ranges, but Mme Gluck's registered perfectly. Her recording of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny sold more than 1,000,000 discs.
Died. Lascelles Abercrombie, 57, British poet (Interludes and Poems, Emblems of Love) and Oxford don who in 1930 was proposed for the post of Poet Laureate; in London.
Died. Pat Crowe, 69, famed ex-train robber, kidnapper and jewel thief; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1900 Crowe helped kidnap 15-year-old Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (now president of Cudahy Packing Co.) in Omaha, Neb. When he was apprehended five years later, he charged Cudahy with engineering the plot himself. The jury acquitted him. In 1929 the Bertillon Bureau of the Buffalo police checked the fingerprints of a suicide, identified him as Crowe. Same day Pat Crowe, then reformed, walked vehemently into Manhattan's police headquarters to deny his death.
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