Engaged. Charles H. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. (meat, glue, fertilizer, gelatin, wool, leather, soap); to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano (Metropolitan and Chicago Opera, recently in concert). In Chicago she said: "American men are the loveliest to marry."
Engaged. Vera ("Moral Turpitude") Countess Cathcart (TIME, March 1, NATIONAL AFFAIRS); to Gideon Boissevain, Dutch-U. S. banker. In London he said last week: "Of course we both are very shy about the whole affair."
Married. Elaine Hammerstein, fluffy cinema actress, daughter of Manhattan producer Arthur Hammerstein, to one J. Walter Keyes, insurance commissioner; at Los Angeles.
Married. Arthur Ruhl, famed and able European correspondent (TIME, Sept. 28, RUSSIA, "Ruhl's Report") for the New York Herald Tribune, to Zinaida Yakounchikoff, a Russian refugee; in Berlin. Her father, now a Riviera hotel keeper, was once a Tsaral functionary. Until recently she gave language lessons in Berlin.
Married. Miss Hope Eaton, daughter of William H. Eaton, niece of Winthrop M. Crane (paper); to one Alexander Simpson 3rd, employed by the Eaton, Crane & Pike Stationery Co.
Married. Miss Esther Studebaker, daughter of Clement Studebaker 2nd (wagons, trucks, motors); to one James Masterson Peticolas, Chicago broker.
Married. Miss Carlotta Havemeyer, eldest daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, purse-potent director of coal, copper, fruit, sugar and (minor) railway companies; to one Anson Alexander Bigelow of Philadelphia and Newport.
Married. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin; to Miss Helen Everett (Bryn Mawr '15).
Married. For the fourth time, Ferenc Molnar, most famed of contemporary Hungarian dramatists (Liliom, The Guardsman, The Swan, The Glass Slipper, Fashions For Men); to Lilli Darvas, famed Hungarian actress. His wives: Margit Vezei, daughter of writer-painter-publisher Pester Loyd (six years); Margit Vezei (remarried, redivorced); Sari Fredak, operetta star (married, separated immediately). He reputedly supported each of his wives in the style of mistress for some years before he married them.
Sued for Divorce. General Eric von Ludendorff, "the brains of old Paul von Hindenburg," now active in German: Fascist politics, by Frau Ludendorff, daughter of a wealthy dairyman; in Berlin. She was said to have annoyed the General by incessant smoking. Frau Dr. Martha yon Kemnitz, ultra-Fascist publicist, was mentioned last week as his potential fiancee.
Sued for Divorce. O. M. Burke (soap mameluke) by Helen Kelly, successively the wife of Frank Jay Gould, R. H. Thomas (sugar tycoon), and Prince Vlora of Albania; in Paris.
Died. Sir William Corry, 67, a director of the Cunard Line; in London. Cunard and Anchor Line steamers carried their flags at half-mast.
Died. Sir Frederick Mott, 72, famed British neurologist; while traveling from London to Birmingham; of a stroke.
Died. Sanford Ballard Dole, 82, in Honolulu. (See POLITICAL NOTES.)
Died. Onetime Deputy Veshapeli, of the Georgian Republic;* in Paris, shot by one Arphandil, a Georgian, who, apprehended, said: "I consider Veshapeli the murderer of all my family."