Married. Betty Compton Walker, ex-musicomedy star, ex-wife of ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City; and Theodore Knappen, consulting engineer; she for the fourth time; in Jersey City, N.J.

Married. Cinecomedian Charles Ruggles, 50; and Marian La Barba, 38; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: ex-Flyweight Champion Fidel La Barba, Cartoonist Billy De Beck (Barney Google).

Died. Graham McNamee, 53, veteran broadcaster; in Manhattan (see p. 53).

Died. Robert Forrest Wilson, 59, historian, novelist, playwright, biographer; after long illness; six days after he won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Crusader in Crinoline; in Weston, Conn.

Died. The Very Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, 67, dean of Washington Cathedral, chaplain of the U.S. Senate; of a heart attack following a kidney ailment; in Washington. He had opened Senate sessions with prayer since 1927. Till 1939 he officiated (at $1,680 a year) only at the beginning of "legislative days"--such a "day" sometimes lasted 100 days. In 1938 he officiated only four times. Since then he has prayed at the opening on each calendar day.

Died. Joseph M. (for Maurice) Weber, 74, the short, barrel-bellied butt of the old Weber & Fields knockabout comedy team; in Los Angeles. For more than half a century gangling, goat-bearded Lew Fields shook and belabored goat-bearded little Joe Weber for his ignorance and insults, joined him in mangling the English language ("I am delightfullness to meet you"), shared with him the glory and profits of being the most popular low-comedy team in theater history. Products of Manhattan's lower East Side, the two grew up together, formed their own road company at 18. Lew Fields died last July.

Died. Arthur Hornblow Sr., 77, long-time editor of Theater Magazine (1901-26), father of Cineproducer Arthur Jr., and father-in-law of Myrna Loy; after a stroke; in Asbury Park, N.J.

Died. Paul Felix Weingartner, 78, famed German musical conductor; in Winterthur, Switzerland. No longer widely known in the U.S., he was nonetheless one of the world's greatest. He was conductor of the Berlin Symphony (before World War I), the Vienna Opera from 1908 to 1927, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony. He taught at the famed Conservatory in Basle, directed the Vienna State Opera in 1935 and 1936. Later he chose exile in preference to Anschluss.

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