Engaged. Louise Behn, daughter of President Hernand Behn of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and Irwin Augustus Powell, Manhattan socialite.
Engaged. Lucile Doumer, granddaughter of President Paul Doumer of France; to Marcel Pasquier, lawyer.
Married. Joan Bennett, 21, film actress, sister of Constance & Barbara; and Gene Markey, 36, scenarist (As You Desire Me) ; in Los Angeles.
Married. Dorothy Bob, 22, daughter of Arch-Promoter Charles Victor Bob; and Andrew Cook McGill, 27, son of President James C. McGill of Territorial Hotels Corp. of Hawaii; in Manhattan. Court recess during his trial for alleged use of the mails to defraud in connection with Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) enabled Promoter Bob to attend.
Married. Jean Toomer, 36, Negro writer and lecturer; and Margery Bodine Latimer, 33, white novelist; four months ago; in Portage, Wis. (see p. 19).
Married. William Rose Benét, 46, poet, critic, onetime associate (now contributing) editor of the Saturday Review of Literature; and Lora Baxter, 26, actress (The Animal Kingdom) ; in Manhattan. Poet Benét's second wife was the late Poet Elinor Hoyt Wylie.
Remarried. Tom Mix, 52, cinema cowpuncher; and Mabel Hubble Ward, 28, circus aerialist; in Yuma, Ariz. They doubted the legality of their marriage last month in Mexican', Mexico (TIME, Feb. 29).
Sued for Divorce. John Randolph Hearst, youngest son of William Randolph Hearst; by Mrs. Dorothy Hart Hearst; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Manhattan Hearstpapers did not carry the story.
Died. Francois de Saint Phalle, 46, senior partner of de Saint Phalle & Co. (bankers & brokers); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris. One of the seven sons of Comte Pierre de Saint Phalle, who were all sent to the U. S. for a business education, he started as a mechanic in Baldwin Locomotive Works, rose to vice president in charge of foreign sales. The banking firm was founded by his brothers; he headed it after their withdrawal.
Died. Harry Cameron Clemens, 66, actor, nephew of the late Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); of heart disease; in Providence, R. I.
Died. Edward J. Moriarity, 66, old-time Yale barkeep; of heart disease aggravated by corpulence; in New Haven. In "Tuttle's," his pungent stube behind a cracker & cheese store, Yale undergraduates for over 40 years quaffed beer, sang songs, learned lore. There was written, and there first sung by Ed Moriarity, "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding."
Died. Anton Kozarek, hangman to the Kingdom of Hungary; of influenza developed from a cold caught while executing a robber and a murderer; in Budapest.
Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven."