Monday, Feb. 15, 1943

Born. To Marva Trotter Barrow, 26; and Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, 28, World Heavyweight Champion: their first child, a daughter, 7 Ib. 5 oz.; in Chicago.

Born. To Princess Marie Jose of Piedmont, 36; and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, 38; their fourth child, third daughter, Beatrice; somewhere in Italy.

Married. British Cinemactress Diana Wynyard, 37 (Cavalcade, Reunion in Vienna); and Cinedirector Carol Reed, 36 (Night Train); in London.

Died. Getulio Vargas Jr., 24, youngest of the three sons of the President of Brazil; of infantile paralysis; after an illness of ten days; in Sao Paulo.

Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes.

Died. The Maharajah of Bikaner, General His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani; Maharajah Sri Ganga Singhji Bahadur, 62, soldier-statesman: of cancer of the throat; in Bombay. He succeeded to the title when he was seven, began to rule Bikaner (pop. about 1,000,000) when he was 18. He multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower of jewels. At his Golden Jubilee in 1937 he gave to charity his weight in gold: some $112,500.

Died. Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini, 68, financier, pioneer backer of the cinema; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A physician, he began banking in 1908. His brother Amadeo founded the Bank of America; Attilio founded the East River National Bank in Manhattan, in the 1900s made loans to the nickelodeons, later gambled a fortune on The Kid, and--much later--backed Snow White.

Died. Frank Lyon Polk, 71, Under Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson; in Manhattan. Counselor to the State Department for four years, he was made Under Secretary in 1919, headed the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, resigned the following year to practice law.

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