Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937

Married. John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 23, who earned fame & fortune at the age of four by appearing with Charles Spencer Chaplin in The Kid (later in Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles.

Married. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the...

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