Married. Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 21, daughter of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, literary symbol of the Jazz Age; and Naval Ensign Samuel Jackson Lanahan, 24; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 48, asbestos-wealthy Manhattan playboy; by Billy Boze Manville, 20, his sixth; four months after marriage; in Reno. Her explanation of why she married him: "It was like a new job that somebody tells you nobody can hold. ... I thought I could do it where they couldn't."

Died. Pauline Mark Thurston, 33, third wife and widow of the late great Prestidigitator Howard Thurston, who nightly sawed her in halves for years; night before the death of his greatest rival's widow (see below); in North Adams, Mass.

Died. Beatrice Rahner Houdini, 67, widow of Prestidigitator Harry Houdini, famed escape artist, exposer of phony mediums; of a heart ailment; in Needles, Calif., aboard an eastbound train from Los Angeles.

Died. Max Schling, 68, most famed U.S. florist; in Manhattan. Once flower arranger to Austria's Empress Elizabeth, he emigrated to the U.S. when he was 25, set up a sidewalk stand in Manhattan, by the late '20s had a million-dollar-a-year business. He gave Manhattan dinner tables their first floral centerpieces. For the floral decorations of Barbara Button's debut at the Ritz-Carlton in 1930 he got $18,000, once did a $50,000 job on a burial plot in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Died. William Charles De Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 70, seventh Earl of Fitzwilliam; at his home, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, Yorkshire. The Earl's residence, much the size and shape of the State Department Building in Washington, is one of the largest private houses in England; legend has it that wandering guests use paper trails to find their way back to their bedrooms; the dining room seats 150; his land's 22,000 acres embrace coal mines. The Earl, who claimed descent from a bastard son of William the Conqueror, in 1933 had himself capitalized into four companies with a nominal value of $14,000,000.

Died. Oliver Henry Wallop, 82, eighth Earl of Portsmouth, longtime Wyoming rancher, onetime deputy sheriff; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fresh from Oxford, he went to the Far West for excitement in the woolly '80s, became a rancher in Little Goose Canyon, Wyo., there settled. Although he succeeded to his earldom in 1925, and returned to England to sit in the House of Lords, he found he was more at home on a ranch, shuttled back & forth between Parliament and Little Goose Canyon.

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