Married. Cinemactress Norma Shearer, 38; and San Francisco-born Skier Martin Arrouge, 28, ex-instructor at Sun Valley; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He formerly taught her son and daughter skiing. She is the widow of Cineproducer Irving Thalberg, who left her and their children nearly $4,500,000. Before the marriage Skier Arrouge signed an agreement waiving his rights to a share of her estate.

Died. Princess Tsahai, 22, younger daughter of Emperor Haile Selassie; at Lekamti, Ethiopia (see p. 42).

Died. Stephen Horthy, 38, Vice-Regent of Hungary, son and heir of 74-year-old Regent Nicholas Horthy; reportedly in aerial combat on the Russian front. A noted sportsman, flyer and amorist, he was a pal of Nazi bigwigs, who allegedly rewarded him with the presidency of the State Railways (rumor said he helped to finance the Hungarian Nazi movement with railway funds). His possible successor: ex-Hungarian Minister to Brazil Nicholas Horthy Jr., the Regent's younger son.

Died. Michel Fokine, 62, Russian "father of the modern ballet," and its greatest choreographer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, et al.

Died. Alice Duer Miller, 68, popular U.S. novelist, whose long poem, The White Cliffs, became her biggest success; in Manhattan. Her books became popular musicomedies, motion pictures (Come Out of the Kitchen; Roberta). The White Cliffs was published at the beginning of the London blitz. Read over the air by Lynn Fontanne, it sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S., 100,000 in England. Its loose-rhythmed, nearly conversational verse was intended to say "all the truth I could about England." She concluded: ". . . In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live."

Died. Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount Dunedin, 92, famed Scottish justice, intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party.

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