Engaged. Nedenia Marjorie ("Deenie") Hutton, 22, who will inherit a fraction of her mother's General Foods (JellO, Post, Toasties, a shopping list of others) fortune, wartime USOverseas entertainer and stepdaughter of Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, onetime U.S. ambassador to Russia; and Stanley Rumbough Jr., 25, Colgate soap heir and wartime Marine fighter pilot; in Manhattan.
Married. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-Henry, 20, well-fixed granddaughter of Sportsman-Socialite-Financier Harry Payne Whitney and Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Luis Gabaldoni, 32, Peruvian businessman and vice consul in New York; in Manhattan.
Married. John Wayne (real name.: Marion Michael Morrison), 38, outstanding (6 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood Horse Operative; and Esperanza Baur, 24, to-the-manor-born Mexican cinemactress; both for the second time (she again to a Morrison, he again to a Latin American); in Long Beach, Calif.
Married. Stanley Walker, 47, able author-journalist, chronicler of the jazz age (Mrs. Astor's Horse) and of his own former job on the New York Herald Tribune (City Editor); and Ruth Howell, onetime Manhattan music critic, wartime OWI editor; in Dallas, Tex.
Divorced. By Vera Zorina, 29 (German-born Eva Brigitta Hartwig), whom Hollywood and a beautiful body have made the poor man's ballerina: George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 42, crack choreographer whose fine Russian hand helped arouse Broadway's current balletomania; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Reno.
Divorced. Vincent Youmans, 47, star-crossed songwriter (Tea for Two, Time on My Hands, Without A Song) who was stricken at meridian (in 1934) with t.b. and has never fully recovered: by Mildred Boots Youmans, 40 ("I do not mind admitting it"), onetime Ziegfeld girl; after more than ten years of marriage, no children; in Reno.
Died. The Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, 73, Slovakia-born, U.S.-educated, since 1913 Chief Rabbi of the British Empire's United Hebrew Congregations, pillar of orthodoxy and Zionism (a forest in Galilee was named for him); in London.
Died. Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, 75, University of Pennsylvania zoologist and geneticist who discovered the relationship between chromosomes and sex determination by examining grasshoppers (he collected 100,000, once had a 20-man WPA team helping him cut them up); of a heart attack; in Swarthmore, Pa.