Milestones, Apr. 3, 1933

Divorced. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime Mayor of New York; by Janet Allen Walker, plump onetime vaudevillian; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: desertion.

Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville Jr.

Divorced. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Socialist Review, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of the London Spectator; and Esther Murphy Strachey, daughter of the...

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