Milestones, Apr. 29, 1935

Engaged. Prince Juan, 21. third and only unmarried son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily.

Engagement Broken. Lily Pons, 30, Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Dr. Fritz von der Becke, Hamburg surgeon. Reason (announced by Miss Pons as she sailed from Manhattan for London to sing at the King's Silver Jubilee next month): "He has his work and I am going to give all for my art."

Married. Esther Strachey, divorced wife of pinko Economist Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey; and Chester A. Arthur Jr., organizer for Utopia,...

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