Engaged. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, famed comic artist of Mutt and Jeff; to La Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont, "winner of a Paris beauty contest in 1922."

Married. Miss Ruth Stagg, daughter of famed and grizzled football coach, A. Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago, to one S. Alton Lauren, in Chicago.

Married. Mrs. Edith Dresser Vanderbilt, 51, widow of George Washington Vanderbilt, to wealthy, aristocratic Peter Goelet Gerry, 46, senior U. S. Senator from Rhode Island. She was given in marriage in London by the Hon. John F. A. Cecil, husband of her daughter Cornelia.

Married. For the sixth time, De Wolf Hopper, 67, famed Thespian, to Lillian Glaser, 29, singer, widow of a California dentist; at Hartfod, Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50-c- and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives.

Divorced. Ferenc Molnar, famed Hungarian playwright (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman); by Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress.

Died. Mme. Sidonia Barscy, 59, famed "bearded lady," veteran of countless sideshows and circuses, at Drummond, Okla., mourned by her only son, "Baron" Nicu Barscy, 40, famed midget, who is but 28 inches tall. Mme. Barscy possessed a heavy iron-grey beard some six inches long.

Died. Edward M. Parker, 70, Bishop of New Hampshire, of apoplexy, in New Orleans (see Page 30, RELIGION).

Died. John Tiller, 71, famed English coach of numberless dancing units of "Tiller girls," who cavort upon the revue stages of the U. S. and Europe; in New York, of asthma. Mr. Tiller revolutionized chorus dancing; established numerous dancing schools, from which 25,000 girls have graduated; was the author of an English law protecting dancing children from exploitation; supplied "Tiller Girls" to the Follies Bergere, the Ziegfeld Follies, etc.

Died, Lord Ribblesdale, 71, "last of the picturesque peers of the Victorian era," in London (see Page 15).