Milestones, Mar. 16, 1936

Married. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (ne Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford divorced Fairbanks for mental cruelty.

Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor...

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