Milestones: Aug. 5, 1929

Born. To John Drinkwater, playwright (Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Bird in Hand) and Mrs. Drinkwater; a daughter.

Engaged. Miss Eileen Bennett, English tennis player; to Edmund Fearnley Whittinghstall, 28, English portrait painter.

Engaged. Arthur Eugene French, captain of the 1928 Harvard football team, son and namesake of the late Boston architect; to Miss Pauline Pope Day, daughter of Joseph Paul Day, potent Manhattan realtor.

Married. Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, lately divorced (TIME, July 15); to Carlotta Monterey, actress (The Hairy Ape), divorced wife of Illustrator Ralph Barton (Gentlemen...

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