Engaged. Cinemactress Clara ("It") Bow, spinster, to Harry Richman, singing Manhattan night club proprietor.
Married. Marquis Lippi Gerini, of Florence, Italy; to Miss Lillian Madelyn Poli, 26, daughter of Sylvester Z. Poli, immigrant-to-millionaire theatre man;* in New Haven, Conn. Five Yale footballers and Swimmers Helen Meaney and Aileen Riggin were recruited for the bridal party. Firemen and State Troopers assisted New Haven police in controlling the 2,000 guests.
Married. Gladys Glad, 21, "highest paid" showgirl (Whoopee, Rosalie, Rio Rita, No Foolin'); to Mark Hellinger, 31, newspaperman; in Manhattan. To a fellow newsman Mr. Hellinger wired: "When we get back from Hollywood you must come over and meet the wife—but not too often."
Married. Hamilton Hadley, 33, son of President-Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University; to Miss Emily Hammond Morris, New York socialite; at Bar Harbor, Me.
Sued for Annulment. Thomas M. Gorman, 27, Long Island real estate agent, husband of Mrs. Natalie Guggenheim Gorman, 18; by Edmond A. Guggenheim (her father), copper tycoon, who separated the couple after they married secretly (TIME, April 29).
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Long Island socialite, poloist, airman; at Reno, Nev.
Seeking Divorce. From Bainbridge Colby, Wilsonian Secretary of State (1920-21), Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby; in Reno, Nev. Mr. Colby sued for divorce in 1927 in France, unsuccessfully.
Sued for Divorce. Edward Patrick ("Mickey") Walker, of Elizabeth, N. J., world's welterweight boxing champion; by Mrs. Margaret Kelly Walker. Allegation: cruelty.
Divorced. Frederick Blantford Bate, Secretary-General of this year's Reparations Conference at Paris; by Mrs. Vera Arkwright Bate; in Paris.
Divorced. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers of Manhattan, oil tycoon; by Mrs. Mary Benjamin Rogers; in Utrecht, Holland; grounds, "infidelity."
Divorced. Elmo Lincoln (real name: Otto Elmo Linkenheit), cinemactor (Tarzan of the Apes); by Mrs. Lincoln. Grounds: another woman.
Promoted. Brig. General Smedley Darlington Butler, 48, of the U. S. Marine Corps; to Major-General (see p. 11).
Resigned. Miss Pattie Field, U. S. Vice Consul at Amsterdam; to join the sales force of National Broadcasting Co.
Retired. Maj. General John Archer Lejeune, 62, of the U. S. Marine Corps; to be Superintendent of Virginia Military Institute.
Birthday. Violinist Willy Hess, one-time concertmaster of the Boston Symphony; 70; in Berlin.
Birthday. George Eastman, 75, photography tycoon; at Rochester, N. Y. To 36 Rochester public and parochial schools Mr. Eastman last week gave radio equipment by which they will receive concerts broadcast by the Rochester Civic Orchestra (Eastman-supported).
Died. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, 52, rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, onetime assistant, later successor, of the Rev. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (longtime [1882-1906] rector of St. George's Church, Manhattan, worship-place of John Pierpont Morgan et al); in Newport, R.I.
Died. Robert Henri, 64, of Manhattan, artist (La Neige, Spanish Gypsy, Willie Gee, Dutch Joe), teacher of Artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent; in Manhattan (see p. 16).