Married. Consuelo ("Conchita") Cintron Verrill, 29, flashy Chilean-American lady bullfighter who developed a unique style beginning with rejoneo (mounted bullfighting) and ending with toreo (foot fighting), has killed 800 bulls in her 13 years in the ring; and Don Francisco Castelo Branco, 32, Portuguese businessman; in Lisbon. After the ceremony, Conchita announced her plans for the future: to quit the ring, settle down and write her memoirs.

Married. Piotr Pirogov, 32, Russian airman who made headlines three years ago when he fled to Austria with his fellow pilot Anatoly Barsov,* is now working for the U.S. Air Force; and Valentino Burnos, 25, Russian D.P., who was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, came to the U.S. from Austria; he for the first time, she for the second; in Washington.

Died. Julius Lulley, 58, Washington restaurateur, raconteur, wit, who rose from apprentice waiter to owner of Harvey's, one of the capital's oldest and best restaurants; of cancer; in Washington.

Died. Sigmund Romberg, 64, who filled the world's ear with the melodies from more than 2,000 songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked him to write a musical. The Whirl of the World (1913) was an immediate success, and at 26 he was already established as a full-time composer. With production-line efficiency, he turned out 78 more operettas, including The Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously), The Desert Song, Blossom Time and The New Moon. His lush, middlebrow tunes ranged from rousing ballads (StoutHearted Men) to glowing sentiment (When I Grow Too Old to Dream) to this year's jukebox favorite Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, but the standard favorites were the coyly romantic Wanting You, Lover Come Back to Me and One Kiss.

Died. Robert B. Smith, 76, leading librettist of the operetta era,/- who collaborated with Composers Victor Herbert

(Sweethearts), Franz Lehar, Oscar Straus and Sigmund Romberg (see above); in Manhattan.

*Who later returned to Russia, where he was reportedly executed.

/-Along with his more prolific brother, Harry B. Smith, who died in 1936, still remembered for his lyrics (They Wouldn't Believe Me; The Sheik of Araby) and librettos (Robin Hood; The Serenade).

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