Born. To Mrs. & Rev. Tertius van Dyke, son of Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke (famed author, onetime Princeton professor, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg); a son, at Washington, Conn.
Engagement Broken. Marion Dawes, daughter of President William R. Dawes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and second cousin of U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes; and one Gordon B. Bilderback of Champaign, 111.; by the elopement of Mr. Bilderback with one Gertrude Sergeant, elocution teacher, ten days before the date of the Dawes-Bil-derback marriage. Said Miss Dawes's family: "A regrettable incident—that is all."
Married. Robert Keith, actor, author of The Tightwad (TIME, April 25); to Peg Entwistle, ingenue actress; at Port Chester, N. Y., after a four-day courtship.
Married. Dorothy Wadsworth Yates, daughter of Illinois Congressman Richard Yates (onetime [1901-05] Governor of Illinois); to John Wishart Henderson, Scotsman; in Washington. Present were President & Mrs. Coolidge and many another.
Married. Camille Irvine, daughter of Dr. William Mann Irvine,* head master of Mercersburg Academy and Pennsylvania Fish Commissioner; to one Clarke Winship Slade of the Hudson River Day Line; in the Academy Chapel, Mercersburg, Pa.
Married. George Philip ("Gyp") Wells, able biologist, son of famed Novelist H. G. Wells; to his father's Scottish secretary, Marjorie Stewart Craig; in London.
Married. Margaret James Washington, niece of famed Founder Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute; to John Wesley Barrington, of the Tuskegee treasurer's office staff; in the Institute Chapel, Tuskegee, Ala.
Married. Julian ("Pete") Street Jr., son of famed Author Julian Street; to Narcissa Vanderlip, daughter of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank (N. Y.); in Manhattan.
Married. Elizabeth Frances du Pont, 21, daughter of Philip F. du Pont (retired executive of the E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.); to Richard Dorsey Morgan, 22, office manager of the Bell Telephone Co.'s Philadelphia branch; at Bel Air, Md., after eloping.
Married. Cyrus Hall McCormick, 67, Chairman of the International Harvester Co., brother and brother-in-law of Harold F. McCormick and Mme. Ganna Walska; to Alice M. Hoit, of Chicago; at Dublin, N. H., in the country home of the bride's niece.
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner.
Died. Lady Edith Mary Howard Cunard, wife of Sir Gordon Cunard (famed shipping family); in London. George Moore dedicated to her his latest book, Ulick and Soracha.
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision.