Engaged. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 44, cinema's oldtime fat funnyman, now director of comedies under the name of "William Goodrich" for Educational Films Corp.; and Addie McPhail, 24, cinemactress. Funnyman Arbuckle left the screen ten years ago after being acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Cinemactress Virginia Rappe. Last month readers of Photoplay magazine voted for his return (TIME, June 29).
Married. Mary Margaret Elizabeth Mercer-Nairne, 21, step-daughter of Major John Jacob Astor (publisher of the London Times); and a Captain R. Myddelton of the Coldstream Guards; in Hever, England.
Married. Prince Johann Aloyse Joseph Marie von und zu Liechtenstein, 31, an heir to the State of Liechtenstein;* and Aleene McFarland, 29, daughter of a Weatherford, Tex. cattle rancher; in London. They met five years ago at a Paris dinner party where she appeared as a dancer.
Married. Charles Boni Jr., 36, Manhattan publisher (vice president of A. & C. Boni); and Margaret Bradford, 38, New York City school teacher; in Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City, N. J.
Married. Michel Clemenceau, 52, son of the late great wartime premier of France; and a Mrs. Annette Smith Aiken, 44, of Los Angeles; in Paris.
Died. Mrs. Albert Forster's gut-joined twin daughters, one 17 days, the other 23 days after birth and the operation which cut their bond (TIME, July 20); from failing to gain strength to endure operations which might have made their body outlets natural and useful; in Baltimore's Mercy Hospital.
Died. Dr. Davison McDowell Douglas, 62, president of the University of South Carolina since 1927; of apoplexy; in Columbia, S. C.
Died. Representative Samuel C. Major, 62, of Fayette, Mo., U. S. Congressman (Democrat) for five terms, ninth Congressman to die since the first of the year (five were Democrats); of paralysis; in Fayette, Mo.
Died. Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose Jr., 67, famed geologist, brother of the late U. S. Senator Boies Penrose; of chronic nephritis and arteriosclerosis; in Philadelphia.
Died. William L. McLean, 79, onetime Pittsburgh newsboy, publisher since 1895 of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; of old age; in Germantown, Pa. Lest it bias his editorial views he would have no business interest but his paper. He saved big headlines for big news, shunned premiums as circulation boosters, was first to distribute newspapers by automobile.
Died. Rev. John Neale Dalton, 91, associated with the British royal family for 60 years; tutor, religious adviser and Domestic Chaplain to King George V; at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, where he was canon and steward of St. George's Chapel.