Married. Nancy Nugent, 19, actress (The Male Animal) and daughter of Elliott Nugent, Broadway actor-playwright-producer; and Francis de Béthencourt, 29, sometime cinemactor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.
Died. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, 66, Australian nurse who discovered a new treatment for infantile paralysis (hot packs and massage); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Toowoomba, Australia (see MEDICINE).
Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled in 1946.
Died. Theresa Capone, 85, mother of eight children, including three blacksheep —Matt, Ralph and Al; in Chicago.
Died. Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff, 85, Russia's chief of chemical research during World War I, who developed a polymerization process for making high-octane gasoline; in Chicago.
Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world history"), he declared in 1944 that "Germany was never a danger to British soil, and far less to American."
Died. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 92, onetime (1917-19) Italian Premier and last of the "Big Four," who (with Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau) drafted the World War I peace treaty; in Rome (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Walter Arlington ("Arlie") Latham, 93, oldtime (1885-88) third baseman for the old St. Louis Browns, whose hard-hitting (.303 in 1886), base-stealing (his claim: "About 150 a year") performances helped St. Louis win its first World Series in 1886; in Garden City, N.Y.