Milestones: Apr. 2, 1928

Engaged. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 45, curly-headed Australian pianist composer, to Miss Ella Viola Strom, Swedish poetess. Said Mr. Grainger, "She is ... a radiant Nordic—as lovely as the morning. ..." The honeymoon; tramps in Glacier National Park, Montana and in Iceland.

Engaged. Miss Catherine Smith, 22, younger daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; to Francis J. Quillinan, a deputy Attorney General of New York State and member of the legal staff of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner.

Married. Wilton Lackaye, 62, veteran actor (Trelawney...

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