Born. To Basil Dean, co-dramatist with Margaret Kennedy of The Constant Nymph (TIME, Dec. 20), and Mrs. Dean (onetime Lady Mercy Greville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Warwick) ; a daughter (9 Ib.) in London. Playwright Dean cabled a wish she should be named Tessa, after the heroine of the play.
Engaged. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne (killed in wreck of naval dirigible Shenandoah, Sept. 3, 1925); to one John Caswell Jr., cotton man of New York and Boston.
Engaged. Rosamond Reed, daughter of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed (Pennsylvania); to Charles Denby Jr., son of Charles Denby, onetime (1918, 1922-23) U. S. special representative to China; also nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby.
Married. Marie Yvonne Dvorak, 20, niece of Composer Anton Dvorak; to John Vernon Henry, 22, onetime Notre Dame halfback; in Oakland, Calif. Her father, the composer's younger brother, was banished some 25 years ago by the Austrian government for alleged editorial treason in Prague.
Married. Philip Alan ("Bleating") Payne, 32, Managing Editor, New York Mirror; to Dorothy Hughes, cinema actress; in Manhattan. To him is attributed the second trial of the Hall-Mills murder case (TIME, Nov. 15).
Sued for Divorce. Francis Burton Harrison, 53, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines; by Mrs. Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison, 25, his third wife, whom he married (1919) on the day of his divorce from his second wife; in Paris.
Died. Harry ("Berg") Berglund, 21, Minneapolis light heavyweight boxer; in Minneapolis; of a fall received from a blow in his first professional bout. His death was the second in two days from boxing, the other being that of Charles Pegulihan, French light heavyweight; in Hartford, Conn.
Died. Ching Sam, millionaire chop suey restaurateur; in Waterbury, Conn.
Died. Mrs. Roberta Ingersoll, wife of Robert H. Ingersoll (watches); in her Manhattan apartment; instantly, of revolver shot. Nearby, wounded, lay Wallace McClean Probasco, 52, son-in-law of Atheist "Bob" Ingersoll, but not related to the deceased woman. The weapon lay near Probasco.
Died. Herbert Randolph Gait, 45, editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 13 years; of heart disease, at St. Paul, Minn.
Died. William A. Lamed, 54, onetime (1901-02 and 1907-11) U. S. champion in lawn tennis singles; in Manhattan, by suicide with the revolver he carried in the Spanish War; following two years' nervous illness and rheumatism. Onetime Army major, he also traded on the New York Stock Exchange, selling his seat in 1922 for $98,000. Only one other U. S. tennis champion equals his seven-year title record, R. D. Sears, the first champion (1881-87).
Died. Joseph Newburger, 68, Memphis (Tenn.) millionaire, cotton merchant and philanthropist; in Manhattan, of pneumonia and heart disease.
Died. Charles R. Erwin, 68, Chairman of Board, Erwin Wasey & Co. Ltd. (advertising); at Winter Haven, Fla.; of heart disease.
Died. Jean Philippe Worth, 70, famed Parisian couturier; in Paris. In his youth he studied painting under Corot. Said Hearst Editor Brisbane: "He has gone to a land where there is no sewing. . . . His word meant more in real authority to the world's women than all the decisions of a thousand high judges."