Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929

Engaged. Miss Helena Lodge, granddaughter of late U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and sister of Journalist Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; to Edouard de Streel, first secretary of the Belgian Embassy in Washington.

Reported Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic flyer; to Hoot Gibson, cinemactor. A few days before the rumor Lyle E. Womack, divorced Elderman, now manager of a silver fox farm, philosophized, "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than it is to tame a woman."

Sued for Separate Maintenance. Michael Franz Bohnen, Metropolitan Opera Company Basso; by...

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