Married Seward Webb Pulitzer, son of Ralph Pulitzer, grandson of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Billie Boldemann, of San Mateo, Calif.; in Manhattan.
Awarded. Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, estranged wife of Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher ("Mutt & Jeff"); $5,000 in a damage suit (burned ear) against Charles Jundt ("of the Ritz"), coiffeur; in Manhattan.
Naturalized. 'Michael Sinnot (Mack Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard pie.
Seeking Divorce. Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 51, Swedish-born U. S. sugar tycoon, president of Celotex Co.; from Mary Alexander Dahlberg, one-book author (Dagger); in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Texas-reared Mrs. Dahlberg refused to live in the U. S., prefers Europe.
Seeking Divorce. Ann Harding, film actress (Her Private Affair, Devotion, Paris Bound}; and Harry Bannister, film actor. Said Actress Harding: "We have been placed in a position which is untenable. . . . He [Bannister] is losing his identity . . . as 'Ann Harding's husband.' . . . We have decided . . . to cut the Gordian knot."
Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth); Andrew William Mellon, 77; Richard Beatty Mellon, 74; King Fuad of Egypt, 64; Florenz Ziegfeld, 63; the Knights of Columbus, 50.
Died. Lady Crittall, wife of Sir Valentine George Crittall, onetime Labor M. P., of burns received while washing :heir clothes in the basement of their Essex home.
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion of all structures, he wrote Skyscrapers and he Men Who Build Them.
Died. Bernard Arthur Behrend, 56. famed electrical engineer and inventor, authority on induction motors; by his own hand (pistol); in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Reason: ill health.
Died. Charles Livingston Bull, 57, animal painter, naturalist, taxidermist, friend and exploring colleague of the late Carl Akeley, Roy Chapman Andrews, William Beebe; as the result of a spinal injury received several years ago; in Oradell, N. J. Theodore Roosevelt once said: "Bull is the only man who can put legs on four sides of an animal and make it look natural."