Engaged. Richard Bennett, 54, actor (He Who Gets Slapped, They Knew What They Wanted) ; to Mrs. Aimee Raish Hastings of San Francisco. He was divorced by his first wife, Adrienne Morrison, actress, in 1923.
Married. Miss Matilde Houghton, 23, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton, to Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another.
Sued for Divorce. Dudley Field Malone, 47, lawyer, who has won many a divorce in Paris for U. S. women; by Doris Stevens Malone, writer, economist; in Paris. She charged desertion and nonsupport.
Divorced. Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn, golfer, trans-Mississippi Women's Champion, onetime (1923) Western Women's Champion; from Joseph F. Horn. She charged desertion and nonsupport.
Died. Gregory Kelly, 32, actor (Seventeen, Clarence, The Butter & Egg Man), husband of Ruth Gordon, actress, now playing in Saturday's Children; of heart disease, after a six months' illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State (see p. 15).
Died. Keith Preston, 42, able colyumist of the Chicago Daily News; of pneumococcus meningitis; in Evanston, Ill.
Died. U. S. Congressman William Newell Vaile, 51, Republican from Colorado; near Denver, Col.
Died. Mrs. Catherine Hull, sister of George Cardinal Mundelein* of Chicago; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Garrett Droppers, 67, onetime (1914-20) U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro, professor emeritus of political economy at Williams College; following a nervous breakdown and paralytic stroke; in Williamstown, Mass.
Died. Dr. Gastao da Cunha, famed Brazilian diplomat, onetime (1919) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1920) Ambassador to France, onetime Ambassador to Portugal, onetime (1921-22) President of the League of Nations Council; after a long illness, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Died. John Drew, 73, called last week by his nephew John Barrymore "The world's greatest actor" at San Francisco, Calif.; of rheumatic fever. As death approached, Mr. Drew said: "This is but another act and I am playing my part." In November, 1853, in the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, a son was born to one John Drew, an Irish character comedian, and his extremely versatile actress-wife Louisa Lane Drew. The child, christened John, had a sister, Georgie.* Both grew up in the repertory atmosphere of the old Arch Street Theatre, subsequently managed by their mother.