Birthday. John Pierpont Morgan, 75, world's most famed capitalist; on Labor Day; on vacation from his Wall Street office (where he still works) and his Long Island estate (where he raises tulips that have a fragrance).

Married. Esther Carp, 28, niece of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov; and Leo Seligman, 31, employe in a Bridgeport war plant; in Manhattan. In the mid-'30s her father, Sam Carp, now a Bridgeport realtor, was commissioned by Moscow to get two 75,000-ton battleships built for Russia in U.S. shipyards. He had a $100,000,000 authorization from Stalin but the deal fell through.

Died. William Roderick ("Will") James, 50, cowboy writer-illustrator (Smoky, Cow Country) in Hollywood. Born in a covered wagon in Montana while his parents were on the trail, he was a working cowhand till a bucking horse injured him, threw him into writing. His mother died when he was a year old, his father was killed by a steer when he was four, and a French-Canadian trapper adopted him and raised him in the wilderness of northwest Canada.

Died. Edward Claudius ("Ned") Wayburn, 68, veteran Broadway director, the U.S. theater's most famed dance teacher of the '205; in Manhattan. Once a ragtime pianist, he was 28 when he directed his first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt.

Died. James ("Smiling Jim") McAndrews, 79, behemoth (6 ft. 4 in.) nine-time Democratic Congressman from Illinois between 1901 and 1941; usually the biggest Congressman physically; of a heart attack; in Chicago. He almost never made a speech.

Died. Harrison Grey Fiske, 81, veteran theatrical producer; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was the first man to produce Ibsen's plays in the U.S., fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"--because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater who had ever read a book."

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