Born. To Actress June Gale, 27, and Musical Know-It-All Oscar Levant (Information Please), 35; their second daughter, Lorna; weight, 6 lb. 10 oz.; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Brenda Williams-Taylor Frazier Watriss, mother of ex-Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier Kelly; and Henry Pierrepont Perry, retired stock broker; each for the third time; in Manhattan.

Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson.

Died. The Rev. Michael ("The Big Fellow") O'Flanagan, 65, towering one-time leader of the Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood.

Died. Guglielmo Ferrero, 71, famed Italian historian (The Grandeur & Decadence of Rome, The Reconstruction of Europe), veteran antiFascist; in Geneva, Switzerland. Admired by Teddy Roosevelt (for his pointed parallels between the politics of Caesar and Tammany), Ferrero launched his world reputation with a U.S. lecture tour in 1908. Under Mussolini, his gift for such parallelisms led first to his "quarantine" in Italy, then his expulsion.

Died. Arnold Genthe, 73, famed photographer of the famous, of heart disease, at Lake Candlewood, Conn. Berlin-born, a classical scholar, he took notable pictures of the San Francisco earthquake, many a stage and literary personality. He took the photograph that got Greta Garbo her first U.S. movie contract.

Died. Thomas Aylette Buckner, 77, retired president and chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co.; in Manhattan. Son of a Missouri schoolmaster, he rose from office boy and salesman of Midwest branches to director at 36, boosted insurance sales from $200,000,000 to nearly half a billion dollars a year.

Died. John Stonewall Chennault, 80, father of Brigadier General Claire Chennault, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in China; at Gilbert, La., where he was onetime mayor.

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