Monday, Apr. 17, 1950
Married. Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Makaroff ("Jo") Douglas, 43, granddaughter of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s late Founder George Huntington Hartford; and John F. C. Bryce, 43, onetime British Intelligence officer; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Aiken, S.C.
Divorced. By Betty Hutton, 29, bouncy blonde cinemusicomedienne (Red, Hot and Blue): Theodore ("Ted") Briskin, 32, Chicago camera manufacturer; after 4 1/2 years, two daughters (Lindsay, 3; Candice, 2); in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Prince Hubertus of Prussia, 40, grandson of Germany's late Kaiser Wilhelm, wartime captain in Hitler's Luftwafte, recently a sheep farmer in South Africa; after an appendectomy; in Windhoek, South-West Africa.
Died. Waslav Nijinsky, 60, the ballet dancer whose brilliant, ten-year career of flawless grace and soaring leaps became romantic legend after he was pronounced incurably insane (dementia praecox) in-1919; of a kidney ailment; in London. Born and schooled in Russia, he set European balletomanes abuzz in 1911 when he danced Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, and L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune in Serge Diaghilev's new ballet company which opened in Paris. In 1916 he toured the Americas, where his fame mounted while his mental health declined (he began to identify himself with the faun in his most celebrated dance). He spent 21 years in a Swiss asylum, was moved to England in 1947 by devoted wife Romola, author of the frank, sympathetic, 1934 bestselling biography, Nijinsky. His own explanation of his fabulous leaps into the air: "You have just to go up and pause there a little."
Died. Walter Huston, whose acting of homespun character roles made him a longtime stage & screen favorite; of a heart attack, a day after celebrating his 66th birthday; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently $7,500 a week). For his supporting role in Treasure of Sierra Madre, written and directed by his son John, he got an Oscar in 1949.
Died. Anthony Fiala, 80, explorer with Teddy Roosevelt's 1914 Brazilian expedition to chart the "River of Doubt," Arctic visitor on two futile efforts to reach the North Pole (1901, 1903); in Brooklyn.
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