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Died. Jessie ("Bonnie") Bonstelle. old-time actress-manager, founder of Detroit's Bonstelle Playhouse which in 1924 became the Detroit Civic Theatre, longtime manager of stock companies in Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto, Rochester (N. Y.), Northampton (Mass.) and Providence (R. I); of heart trouble; in Detroit. Stars she trained: Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, William Powell, Katherine Alexander. Rollo Peters, Earle Larrimore, Joan Lowell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Morgan, Ben Lyon. Kenneth McKenna, Melvyn Douglas, Jessie Royce Landis, Minor Watson.
Died. Lura Mansfield Olmsted Reed. 76. wife of Missouri's onetime (1911- 29 ) U. S. Senator James A. Reed; of pneumonia; in Kansas City, Mo.
Died. Mrs. Jane Whiting Whipple Scandrett. 85, mother of St. Paul Railway's President Henry Alexander Scandrett and Northern Pacific Railway's Executive Vice President Benjamin Wright Scandrett; in St. Paul.
Died. Dr. Julian Daniel ("Judy") Taylor. 86, Latin professor of Colby College (Waterville, Me.) for 59 years, officially titled "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner (TIME, Nov. 9, 1931); of a heart attack brought on by helping harvest apples; at Waterville. Me. Inheriting his wife's money, he shrewdly pyramided it. Last year he gave Colby $250,000 (contingent upon raising $2,750,000 more within three years) for the "New Campus for Old Colby."
Died. The Hon. Katherine Plunket. Ill., oldest woman in the British Isles (she survived the reigns of George IV, William IV, Victoria and Edward VII. remembered Palmerston. Disraeli, Gladstone, and as a child sat on the knee of Sir Walter Scott); peacefully, of old age; in Ballymascanlon, County Louth, Ireland. Granddaughter of John W. Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, she would have no truck with automobiles, radios, phonographs, modern women, had "never heard of" George Bernard Shaw, eschewed "noise & vulgarity." She had been a pioneer Alpine climber, raised roses.