Monday, Aug. 17, 1925
Reported Engaged. Miss Ruth
Kresge, daughter of Sebastian S. Kresge, 5-and-10-c--store man, to one Erskine Gwynne of Paris and Washington.
Engaged. Mrs. Gwendolyn Whistler Haughton, widow of Percy D. Haughton, famed Harvard and Columbia football coach who died last fall, grandniece of the late James Abbott McNeill Whistler, famed painter, to Augustin H. Parker, Boston broker.
Engagement Broken. Miss Emmeline Grace, daughter of Eugene Gifford Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, to Sir Michael Bruce, descendant of the Kings of Scotland, whose engagement was announced last December. Although the engagement had been broken several months ago, no announcement was made until last week when he married Miss Doreen B. Greenwell of Cheltenham, England, in London.
Married. John Maynard Keynes, 42, famed British economist, and Lydia Lopokova, 33, famed Russian danseuse; in London.
Divorced. Mrs. Flora Whitney Tower, daughter of Harry Payne Whitney, from Roderick Tower, son of Charlemagne Tower, onetime (1899-1902) Ambassador to Russia, onetime (1902-08) Ambassador to Germany; in Paris. She charged desertion.
Divorced. Alia Nazimova, 46, famed actress, from Charles Bryant, onetime cinema actor and director; in Paris.
Died. William Chauncey, adopted brother of Mary Garden, famed opera singer; in Deauville, France, from blood-poisoning following an injury to his foot incurred while bathing.
Died. John Temple Graves, 68, famed journalist, "Silver-Tongued Orator from Dixie," onetime (1907-19) editorial and feature writer for the Hearst newspapers, old-school Democrat, ardent protagonist of the South's causes; in Washington, D. C, of a complication of diseases.
Died. George Gray, 85, famed Delaware jurist, last survivor of the Peace Commission which framed the Treaty of Paris in 1898, a member of the bench of the Permanent Tribunal of International Arbitration at the Hague, one-time (1885-99) U. S. Senator from Delaware, senior Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate at the time of the Spanish-American War, onetime (1899-1914) U. S. Circuit Judge; in Wilmington, after a lingering illness.