Born. To Dr. Anton Lang, Georgetown University German professor and son of the late, saintly Oberammergau Passion Play Christus, who died last year, and Klara Mayr Lang, onetime Oberammergau Magdalene; a son, their third child; in Washington, D. C. Name: Anton Lang Jr.

Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than he can say.")

Marriage Revealed. William Robert Bradley, 21, orange-haired Sixth Earl of Craven; and Irene Meyrick, daughter of the late in-and-out-of-jail Mrs. Kate ("Queen of the London Night Clubs") Meyrick. The Earl's gallant, one-legged father caused a newspaper uproar in 1926 by eloping with another earl's wife, Countess ("Moral Turpitude") Cathcart.

Married. Robert Vanderpoel Clark, 21, Manhattan's No. 1 male debutant of 1938, Singer Sewing Machine Co. heir; and Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health.

Married. Madge Evans, 30, blonde screen and stage actress of 25 years' standing, and Sidney Kingsley, 32, Pulitzer Prize playwright (Men in White, Dead End); both for the first time, in York Village, Me.

Died. Charles Clark Bradley, 60, gaunt-eyed Iowa judge; in Le Mars, Iowa. In 1933 a mob of farmers on whose homes he had refused to waive foreclosure proceedings dragged Judge Bradley from his courtroom, threatened to lynch him, poured axle grease on his face. Said he later: "They're still good people. They have been badly led, and their misfortunes are heavy upon them."

Died. Colonel Joel Elias Spingarn, 64, lifelong champion of the U. S. Negro, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; after long illness; in Manhattan. Other Spingarn interests: a club for "Professors [like himself] Who Were Fired or Resigned Under Pressure from Columbia University," recreation centres for rural areas, boosting of the once-popular clematis* vine in the U. S.

*He was infuriated when "clematis" was pronounced incorrectly, with the accent on the second instead of the first syllable.

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