Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Janet Newbold, Washington socialite, daughter of Business Manager Fleming Newbold of the Washington Evening Star; in Washington, D. C.
Married. Fannie' Brice (real name: Borach), 37, famed Jewish comédienne (Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box Revue, Fio-retta), onetime wife of famed bond-thief "Nicky" Arnstein; and Billy Rose (real name: Rosenberg), 29, Manhattan song writer (Barney Google, Me and My Shadow); in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. Songwriter Rose offered the Mayor $1, promised him another if the marriage was successful.
Married. Rachel Spender-Clay, 21, of London, granddaughter of the first Lord Astor (the late William Waldorf Astor of Manhattan); and the Honorable David Bowes-Lyon, 26, brother of Elizabeth, Duchess of York; in London.
Divorced. Thomas L. Fess of Manhattan, wholesale druggist (Lehn & Fink), son of Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio; by Mrs. Marguerite Fess, onetime secretary to the Senator; in Manhattan; on the grounds of drunkenness and misconduct.
Elected. Arthur Irving Philp, to be board chairman of Durant Motors, Inc., following a general Durant re-organization upon withdrawal of William Crapo Durant from active direction of the company.
Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years.
Died. Mrs. Viola Austman Fokker, 29, of Manhattan, Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after her.
Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often said his three wives were "the pen, politics and aviation." He was in the advertising business.
Died. William Breining Ward, 44, of New Rochelle, N. Y., board chairman of Ward Baking Corp.; of heart disease; in his office in The Bronx, N. Y.
Died. Dr. Robert Josselyn Leonard, 44, director of the School of Education at Teachers' College, Columbia University, native of California; after illness with influenza and a nine-floor fall, possibly suicidal, from his apartment window; in Manhattan.