Engaged. Maria Sieber, 18, daughter of Mary Magdalene von Losch Sieber (Cinesiren Marlene Dietrich); and Cinemactor Richard Haydn, 37; in Hollywood. Briton Haydn, who made his first U.S. splash as an impersonator of fish in the Noel Coward revue Set To Music, returns to England soon. Mother-in-law-to-be Marlene announced the marriage would follow the war.

Married. Chief Specialist Robert William ("Bob") Feller, U.S.N., 24, ex-pitching star of the Cleveland Indians; and Virginia Winther, 24, of Waukegan, ILL.; in Waukegan.

Married. Virginia Katherine McMath Culpepper Ayres (Cinemactress Ginger Rogers), 33; and Marine Corps Private John Calvin Briggs, 22, ex-player of Hollywood bit parts; she for the third time, he for the first; in Pasadena. Her first husband was Vaudevillian E. J. Culpepper, her second ex-Cinemactor Lew Ayres.

Divorced. By Clara Lou Sheridan Nolan (Cinemactress Ann Sheridan), 27; George Nolan (Cinemactor George Brent), 38; after one year; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The marriage was her second, his third.

Divorced. By Sir Thomas Beecham, 63, goateed British symphony conductor, laxative heir (Beecham's Pills): Utica Celestia Welles, Lady Beecham, sixtyish; after 39 years (most of them in separation) ; in Boise, Idaho.

Died. Frank Alvord Perret, 75, volcanologist; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A frail-looking, white-goateed, bespectacled soul, he spent more than half of his adult life dwelling on the slopes of volcanoes, became one of the great authorities on them, a man much sought after by nervous volcano-neighbors. After studying Mount Etna in 1910 he warned the local citizens to move, got out himself; a few weeks later some 250 skeptics died during Etna's eruption. He was summoned to Martinique in 1929 when Pelee gave signs of becoming active again. Nearby St. Pierre had been demoralized by fear and its economic life was virtually finished. Perret foresaw no more dangerous eruptions, settled on Pelee to show his confidence, stayed there ten years. St. Pierre was reassured, revived, and Martinique celebrated a newly created Frank A. Perret Day in 1937, made him an honorary citizen.

Died. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 86, "grand old man" of British surgery, vigorous old provoker of public controversy; in London. Famed for his treatment of fractures, his surgery on cleft palates, he was equally famed for his alarming generalizations (e.g., "women are the cause of all our misery," "missionaries are degrading the pagan races").

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