Milestones: May 21, 1928

Engaged. Claire Luce, dancer, principal of the 1927 Ziegfeld Follies; to Clifford Warren Smith, son of Mrs. Newcomb Carlton,* of Manhattan.

Married. Sinclair Lewis, novelist; to Dorothy Thompson, newspaperwoman; at Saint Martin's registry office in London. Only two friends were present as witnesses. After the wedlocking Mr. and Mrs. Lewis went to the Savoy Chapel for a benediction, then began a tour of England in a bungalow on wheels. Said Mrs. Lewis: "We hope eventually to settle on a little farm somewhere in the United States— probably in New England."

Married. Potter D'Orsay Palmer,...

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