Born. To Telesphore Simard, onetime Mayor of Quebec; his 24th child, a girl; by the second Mme Simard; in Quebec.
Married. Ruth Fesler, social secretary to Mrs. Herbert Hoover until last April,* Stanford graduate; and Robert Lockwood Lipman Jr., San Francisco lawyer, University of California graduate; in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sued for Separation, Graham McNamee, radio announcer, "talking reporter" for Universal Newsreel; by Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee; in Manhattan. They eloped in 1921 (by means of a ladder) after a romance which began when they sang together in a concert at Bronxville, N. Y. Announcer McNamee said the separation was not by mutual consent, did not know what the charges were.
Divorced. Max Reinhardt, German producer (The Miracle, Jedermann) ; from Elise Heims, actress; in Riga, Latvia. Frau Reinhardt, who had refused for twelve years to permit him to divorce her, appealed the decision on the grounds that though he owns property in Riga he is no Latvian but a Czecho-Slovakian citizen.
Died. Ralph Barton, 39, caricaturist and satirist (Science in Rhyme Without Reason, God's Country); by his own hand (revolver); in Manhattan. Four times married — to Marie Jennings, Anna Minerly, Actress Carlotta Monterey (now married to Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill) and French Composer Germaine Tailleferre—he was four times divorced. Last week he left a statement headed "Obit" which said: "I have run from wife to wife, from house to house, from country to country in a ridiculous effort to escape from myself. ... In particular, my remorse is bitter over my failure to appreciate my beautiful lost angel, Carlotta [who had just returned from France to Manhattan with Playwright O'Neill] the only woman I ever loved and whom I respect and admire above all the rest of the human race. She is the one person who could have saved me had I been savable. She did her best."
Reports that he sought to see Actress Monterey last week were denied in a statement issued by Playwright O'Neill's lawyer. Another lawyer denied that Mr. Barton had hoped to marry Ruth H. Kresge (5¢ & 10¢ store heiress) who sailed to Europe last week with her fiance Rufus Clark Caulkins.
Died. John Newell Garfield, 39, employe of Boland & Cornelius Co. (shipping), Cleveland commander of the Crusaders (national anti-Prohibition group), grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S. (assassinated in 1881); by his own hand (revolver) because of ill health; in Mentor, suburb of Cleveland.
Died. Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, 51, of the U. S. Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive.
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England.