Birthdays. Calvin Coolidge. Age: 58. Date: July 4. Celebration: opening mail at his Northampton, Mass, law office. From Lee Ting Quan, oldtime chef on the Presidential yacht Mayflower, now a Manhattan restaurateur, he received a 20-lb fruit cake decorated with rosebuds and green leaves.
Other July 4 birthday celebrators: Actor George Michael Cohan, 52; Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, 47.
Birthday. John Davison Rockefeller. Age: 91. Date: July 8.
Married. Mrs Josephine Alger Cheney, granddaughter of the late General Russell Alexander Alger, McKinley secretary of war (1897-99); and D. Dwight Douglas, president of First National Bank of Detroit; at York Harbor, Me.
Married. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, 68, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church; and Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, widow of the late Mormon Bishop Edwin S. Sheets; in the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City. Fortnight ago Senator Smoot declared: "I'll marry no woman I haven't asked to marry me and I haven't asked any woman to marry me. I'll not say I'm going to Utah to marry and I'll not say I'm not going to Utah to marry."
Plans for a Honolulu honeymoon were altered by a telegram from President Hoover asking Bridegroom & Mrs. Smoot to return to Washington, stay at the White House, help get the London Naval Treaty through the Senate (see p. 16).
Married. Prince Luis de Bourbon, 41, cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, former fiance of Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, onetime Broadway beauty who broke off with him after he demanded a dowry of $200,000, an annual income of $10,000, plus $2,000 yearly pocket money; and Princess Amedee de Broglie, 70, member of the oldest French noble families.
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham, N. J.
Married. August Heckscher, 81, Manhattan zinc tycoon, philanthropist; and a Mrs. Virginia Curtiss, 55, of Greenwich, Conn.; at Croton-on-Hudson.
Wedding Anniversary. King George V of England and Queen Mary: their 37th. Date: July 6.
Elected. Sydney H. Coleman, since 1910 engaged in animal protection work, to be president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; at Manhattan.
Died. Alfred C. ("Al") Lassman, 24, giant (6 ft. 4 in., 220 lb.) All-American football tackle in 1928, captain of that year's New York University team; by drowning; at Long Lake, near Harrison, Me.
Died. Esther Singleton, author (A Guide to the Opera, Social New York Under the Georges, The Shakespeare Garden, The Story of the Universe, The Wild Flower Fairy Book), since 1923 editor of The Antiquarian; at Stonington, Conn.
Died. William Newsome, 61, co-founder and senior vice president of United Fruit Co. (his specialty: bananas); at Boston.
Died. Cenobia Obregon, 66, sister of onetime Mexican President Alvaro Obregon (assassinated 1928); at Guadalajara.