Engaged. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, daughter of the late President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co., heiress with three sisters and a brother of his $150,000,000 estate; and Tristram C. Colket, Haverford, Pa. broker.
Married. Helen Gahagan, actress (Tonight or Never} opera singer (Tosca); and Melvyn Douglas, actor (Tonight or Never); in Brooklyn, N. Y. (see p. 38).
Married. Major William Kennelly, 45, president of the New York Athletic Club, and a Miss Marian Horton Paine, 27; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker; from Edward Duryea Dowling, cinema dialog director whom she had married secretly in Manhattan's Carlton House 33 days prior (TIME, March 2 ), from whom she became estranged two days later (TIME, March 16); in Cuernavaca, Mexico, after "a day or two" residence. Grounds: "cruelty, personal violence, refusal to provide maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears of the man she really loved, causing a serious physical breakdown. Then she repented, but a mysteriously powerful element was already on the move. "Marry Dowling! "She must obey. Perhaps she will tell the story some day. "Who had informed against her? Detectives—possibly! . . . Telephone wires talk."
Divorced. Roy Chapman Andrews, curator-in-chief of Asiatic exploration & research at Manhattan's Museum of Natural History; by Mrs. Yvette Borup Andrews; in Paris. Grounds: desertion.
Honored. Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Dame University's famed Norwegian-born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months.
Some 1,400 mourners gathered in Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus, where six years ago Knute Rockne was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. They heard Rev. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of Notre Dame University, say: "This is not death but immortality." The Rockne children (Knute Jr., William, John and Mary Jean) were there and many an oldtime Notre Dame footballer. Pallbearers were members of Rockne's last team: Tom Conley, Tom Yarr, Frank Carideo, Marchmont Schwartz, Marty Brill, Larry Mullins. Outside the church waited mourning thousands, who followed the cortege to Highland Cemetery, wept and prayed as the body was lowered into a grave under the Old Council Oak. where Explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, smoked the pipe of peace with the Indians.*
Died. Frank B. Gorman, 60, longtime (40 years) clerk of the U. S. Senate, lately attendant in the reference room in the Congressional Library; after being bludgeoned and robbed in a Chicago street.
Died. Nathan Frank, 70, founder of the St. Louis Star, onetime (1889-91) U. S. Representative from the 12th Missouri District, onetime (1896) chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee; of a streptococcus infection; in St. Louis.