Engaged. Princess Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena of Italy, to Prince Philip of Hesse, a nephew of Wilhelm Hohenzollern (see ITALY).

Married. Miss Alice Erdman, daughter of Dr. Charles R. Erdman, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, to Francis Grover Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U. S. President; in Princeton, N. J.

Married. Miss Frances Bainbridge Colby, daughter of Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, to one Robert Rogers, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; in Manhattan.

Married. The Hon. Alice Graham, daughter of Sir Hugh Graham, Lord Atholstan, owner of the Montreal Daily Star, and Lady Atholstan, to one Marsham Hallward.

Married. Miss Hazel Hatfield, daughter of Henry Hatfield, onetime (1913-17) Governor of West Virginia, to John Roach Sproul, son of William Cameron Sproul, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania; in Chester, Penn.

Married. Paul Drane Van Anda, son of Carr V. Van Anda, Managing Editor of The New York Times since 1904, to Miss Gertrude R. Rankine of Niagara Falls; in Niagara Falls.

Divorced. By Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, the Marquess of Queensbury, Lady Queensbury (Irene Richards, actress) ; in London.

Divorced. Hugh Richard Arthur 'Grosvenor, second Duke of Westminster, by Violet Mary Geraldine, Duchess of Westminster; in London. She charged infidelity, named one Mrs. Crosbie as corespondent. His first wife, Constance Edwina, Duchess of Westminster, now the wife of Capt. James F. Lewis, divorced him in 1919. Since both divorced him, both can retain the title Duchess of Westminster.

Died. Miss Elizabeth M. Cromwell, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Cromwell of Manhattan; drowned at sea en route to Rotterdam on the S. S. Veendam. The Misses Dorothea and Gladys Cromwell, her second cousins, were drowned when they leaped from the S. S. Lorraine on their way home from France, where they had been doing Red Cross work at the front, six years ago.

Died. Chitta Ranjan Das, 57, Indian Nationalist; at Darjeeling, Bengal, India (see COMMONWEALTH).

Died. Arthur Christopher Benson, 63, essayist, biographer, poet; in London. Son of the late Edward W. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, brother of Edward F. Benson and the late Hugh Benson, both novelists, he came of a family famed in English letters.

Died. Emanuel Lorenz Philipp, 64, onetime (1915-21) Governor of Wisconsin, Republican and arch enemy of the late Senator LaFollette; in Milwaukee of a heart attack. In 1908, he sued McClure's Magazine for $100,000 for libel in publishing articles accusing him of lobbying and receiving improper commissions from a railroad. He won a verdict of $15,000.

Died. Edwin Freemont Ladd, 66, senior U. S. Senator from North Dakota; in Baltimore, of kidney disease (see CONGRESS).

Died. Robert M. LaFollette, 70, senior U. S. Senator from Wisconsin; in Washington, D. C., of heart disease (see CONGRESS).