Engaged. Robert Fredericks (Ed "Strangler" Lewis), world's heavyweight champion wrestler, to Princess Marie Traivaska, formerly of Petrograd, now of Wiesbaden, Germany. Charging cruelty, he divorced Mrs. Ada Scott Fredericks last Summer.

Married. William Rose Benet, poet, one of the editors of The Literary Review (New York) to Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie, poet, author of Black Armour. Daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, Solicitor General under President Taft, she married in 1906 Philip S. Hichborn, lawyer and writer. After his death she married, in 1916,. Horace Wylie, whom she divorced last Spring, charging nonsupport.

Married. Lady Evelyn Herbert, daughter of the late Lord Carnarvon, discoverer of the tomb of TutankhAmen, to Brograve Beauchamp, at St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Sued for divorce. John Drinkwater, poet and playwright (author of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart. Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee, editor of The Outline of Literature), by Mrs. Kathleen Walpole Drinkwater, former actress. Charges not stated. The case is not defended.

Sued for divorce. Jose Baccardi, " Cuban rum king," by Senora Martha Durand Baccardi, in Manhattan. She charged nonsupport, and added that he " did nothing but drink . . . his own liquor. . . . When he was tired of that he would go to sleep."

Divorced. Gerard Monte Blue, cinema actor, by Gladys ("Boots") Blue, at Los Angeles. She charged desertion. He played recently in Brass, cinematization of Charles Norris' novel of divorce.

Divorced. Mrs. John H. Towers, from Lieutenant Commander Towers, in Paris. He piloted the NC-4, the first airship to cross the Atlantic, in its transoceanic flight, in May, 1919. Cause of divorce not stated.

Died. Pietro De Palma, 78, grain and oil merchant, father of Automobile Racer Ralph De Palma, at Foggia, Italy.

Died. Count Charles de Lesseps, 82, son of Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal (opened in 1869), in Paris.

Died. Mrs. Josephine Pastor, 68, widow of Tony Pastor, famed theatrical producer of a generation ago, said to have once been " one of the most beautiful women in the U. S.," at Elmhurst, L. I.

Died. Joseph T. Swanson, 52, of the Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A., father of Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif., of acute heart disease.