Engaged. Ruth Chatterton, film actress; and George Brent, film actor (see p. 19). They will be married after she obtains her divorce from Ralph Forbes.
Engaged. Doris Metaxa, 21. French tennist, winner (with Jacqueline Sigart) of the Wimbledon doubles championship last fortnight; and Peter D. Howard, one-time England Rugby Team captain.
Married. Ralph De Palma, 49, automobile racing driver; and one Marian Leggett, 36; in Las Vegas, Nev. Honeymoon: seeking a job for him on Hoover Dam. Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry one Byron Mitchell, San Francisco gymnasium instructor. Judgment Awarded. To Myrtle St. Pierre: $5,000 in her $200,000 breach of promise suit against David Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; in Los Angeles. Hearing the verdict, Sister McPherson toppled and cracked her pate.
Sentenced. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., to one year imprisonment and $1,000 fine; for obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington, N.J.
Birthdays. John Davison Rockefeller, 93; Nikola Tesla, 75; Finley Peter Dunne, 65; Irving T. Bush, 63; Calvin Coolidge, 60; George Michael Cohan, 54.
Died. Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, youngest son and an heir of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (tobacco), husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (Little Shows, Three's A Crowd); of "a gunshot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown;" in Winston-Salem N. C.
Died. Edwin Follett Carter, 22, Dartmouth graduate, son of Edwin Farnham Carter, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Died. Nikolai Semenoff, 50, Russian ballet dancer; by jumping into Niagara Falls (see p. 18).
Died. Philip Grosset, 53, salesman in his brother Alexander Grosset's publishing house (Grosset & Dunlap); by drowning, from a canoe; at Hubbards, N. S.
Died. Adele Neustadt Schiff, 53, widow of Mortimer Leo Schiff, New York philanthropist and international banker; of cancer; in Oyster Bay, L. I.
Died. Margaret Wright Hawkins, wife of William Waller Hawkins, general manager of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. She was the daughter of Major J. M. Wright, long-time Marshal of the U. S. Supreme Court, and a cousin of Managing Editor Keats Speed of the New York Sun.
Died. Howard D. Mannington, 64, henchman of Warren Gamaliel Harding's presidential campaign, lessee of the Ohio Gang's ill-famed "little green house in K Street"; of a lingering illness; in Columbus, Ohio.