Married. Louise Hovick (Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee); to Robert Mizzy; in Santa Ana, Calif. They had already been married at sea (TIME, Aug. 23). The second ceremony was to satisfy California law.
Seeking Divorce. The Countess of Covadonga, onetime Cuban belle Marta Rocafort; from the Count of Covadonga, onetime heir to the throne of Spain, whom she married in July (TIME, July 12); in Havana, Cuba. Cause: "incompatibility of characters.''
Divorced, Novelist Oliver La Farge II, author of 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinner Laughing Boy; by Mrs. Wanden Mathews La Farge; in Reno. Charge: cruelty.
Appointed. Maude Adams, famed old-time actress, to be professor of drama at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, Mo. For her, the college hopes to found the "Maude Adams School of Drama."
Freed. Grocer George W. Norris of Alva, Okla., from the Lincoln, Neb., city jail, after having served three months for perjury in connection with his attempt, in 1930, to enter the Nebraska Republican primary elections as Senatorial candidate opposed to venerable Senator George W. Norris (TIME, April 5, et ante); in Lincoln, Neb.
Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif., must remain away from centres of population, must write no crime stories. In progress is a novel: Theodora, the All-Gifted.
Bankrupt. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 67, General Overseer of Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.—candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house—since 1933. Its assets were 87¢ in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under Section 7/-B, failed, and likewise lost control of Zion City's theocratic municipal government. Last week Federal Judge Charles Guy Briggle finally confirmed his bankruptcy, ordered that his and his wife's property, mostly real estate, be liquidated over ten years for the benefit of creditors of the Industries.
Left. By Cinemactress Jean Harlow: an estate of $41,000; to her mother, Mrs. Jean Bello.
Left. By Mrs. Emma Rockefeller McAlpin, niece of John Davison Rockefeller: the bulk of an estate valued at $5,648,349; to her two sons and two daughters; in Manhattan.
Left. By Bronson Cutting, onetime (1927-35) U. S. Senator from New Mexico, killed in a 1935 airplane accident: an estate of $3,299,725. exclusive of real estate. Specific bequests made by Senator Cutting, a bachelor, amounted to $1,-90,676, were made to 184 beneficiaries.