Milestones: Mar. 15, 1926

Married. Georgette Cohan, 25, daughter of famed actor-producer George M. Cohan, widow of J. William Souther, broker; to William Hamilton Rowse, perfumer; at Manhattan. When she married Mr. Souther in 1921, she telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle Boy. Wave your flag." Importer Rowse is a naturalized American (onetime Englishman).

Died. Sir Sidney Lee, 66, for 26 years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (standard

English biographical work), perhaps the greatest "late Victorian" authority on the life of Shakespeare, author of a biography of Edward...

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