Born. To Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti Ugolini, niece of Pope Pius XI; a daughter, Maria Rio Pia. His Holiness sent his majordomo with blessings for his grandniece and namesake.
Engaged. Plutarco Elias Calles, 52, onetime President of Mexico; and Lenora Llorente, 28, vocal student; at Mexico City.
Sued. George J. Gillespie, Sr., president of New York City's Board of Water Supply; by Mrs. Frances Marion Brandon, New York City's Assistant Corporation Counsel; for $574,165; for breach of promise (marriage), fraud. Mrs. Brandon testified that, under his religio-erotic influence, she had turned clients over to Mr. Gillespie, that he had kept $74,165 in fees.
Married. John Thomas Scopes, 29, Venezuela Gulf Oil Co. geologist, famed culprit in the Dayton, Tenn., evolution trial (TIME, May 18, 1925 et seq.); and Mildred Walker, fellow employe; at Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Married. William Averill Harriman, 38, active son of a super-active father (the late great railroader Edward Henry Harriman), Long Island poloist and socialite, head of W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., recently divorced; and Marie Norton Whitney, 26, mother of two, who last September divorced Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, financier-sportsman son of financier-sportsman Harry Payne Whitney; in Manhattan. The couple sailed immediately on the Bremen for a honeymoon in Southern France.
Married. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, twice-divorced second Duke of Westminster, most spectacular of England's richest peers; and Loelia Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, keeper of the Privy Purse; in London. To his bride the Duke gave the famed Porter-Rhodes diamond, to his tenants, remission of arrears, one week's rent.
Sued for Divorce. Actress Clare Jenness Eames Howard (Hedda Gabbler, Candida); by Playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted); at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: desertion.
Decorated. James Rowland Angell, president of Yale University; Wilbur Lucius Cross, retiring dean of Yale Graduate School; with the cross of the Legion of Honor; by French Ambassador Paul Claudel; for furthering French studies in the U. S.
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight
Grand Cross, Knights of Malta. Simultaneously, Mrs. Hurley was dubbed a Dame of Malta.
Decorated. Edward Aloysius Cudahy, 70, Chicago packer; by the Vatican; with the order of Knight of Malta.
Decorated. Rev. William Chauncey Emhardt, Ph. D., 56, Philadelphian, member of the National Council, Protestant Episcopal Church, chairman of the American Hellenic Committee for the Centenary of Greek Independence; by the Greek Government; with the Gold Cross of Officer of the Order of the Redeemer, oldest of Greek orders; for valuable services to Greece.
Decorated. Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House; with the Royal Order of Isabella la Catolica; by Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; for services to art. Last year she was given the order of Alfonso XII, conferred also for artistic distinction.