Monday, Jul. 31, 1944
Born. To Ronald Colman, 53, aging, greying British cinemactor; and Benita Hume, 37, onetime cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Juliet. Weight: 7 Ibs. 1 1/2 oz.
Married. Marie ("Sunny") Ainsworth, 20, onetime Powers model, onetime wife (seventh, for seven hours) of Thomas ("Tommy") Manville Jr. and lately applicant for entrance to the University of Chicago (TIME, July 17) ; and Army Lieut. Erwin D. Arvey, 27, she for the fourth time; in South Haven, Mich.
Divorced. Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 29, in the U.S. after combat duty with the Army Air Forces in India (TIME. March 27); by Flower Parry Coogan, 22, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after three years of marriage (including two years of separation); in Hollywood.
Died. Mildred Harris, 41, onetime cinemactress, first of Charles Chaplin's four wives; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. She was 16 when she married Chaplin in 1918. two years later divorced him, charging that "he never did anything but think." She married twice again, tried many cinema comebacks, in 1937 played in burlesque.
Died. Pierre Vienot, 46, popular, hard-working Gaullist envoy to Britain; of a heart attack; in London. Lean, hooknosed Vienot rejected the armistice of 1940, escaped to North Africa, where Pierre Laval had him arrested and brought to France for imprisonment. He escaped, reached London sick from war wounds and prison privations, thereafter worked himself to death.
Died. Alan Dinehart, 53, veteran Broadway and Hollywood "heavy"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.
Died. Charles Franklin Anderson, 69, U.S. Post Official (cancellation expert), who was sent to the South Pole with the second Byrd expedition in 1934, set up shop in an ice cave to cancel the stamps on the expedition's 100,000 letters; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. William Marion Cook, 75, famed pioneer Negro ragtime composer; after long illness; in Harlem. Born in Washington, Cook studied at 15 under the late great violinist Joseph Joachim in Berlin, played in the Berlin Symphony, returned to the U.S. and the music of his people, wrote scores for the late great minstrels Bert Williams and George Walker. In recent years he turned to choral composition, last year in Haiti collaborated with his son on an opera, St. Louis 'Ooman.
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