Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Janet Newbold, Washington socialite, daughter of Business Manager Fleming Newbold of the Washington Evening Star; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Fannie' Brice (real name: Borach), 37, famed Jewish comedienne (Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box Revue, Fio-retta), onetime wife of famed bond-thief "Nicky" Arnstein; and Billy Rose (real name: Rosenberg), 29, Manhattan song writer (Barney Google, Me and My Shadow); in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. Songwriter Rose offered the Mayor $1, promised him another if the marriage was successful.

Married. Rachel Spender-Clay, 21, of London, granddaughter of the first Lord Astor (the late William Waldorf Astor of Manhattan); and the Honorable David Bowes-Lyon, 26, brother of Elizabeth, Duchess of York; in London.

Divorced. Thomas L. Fess of Manhattan, wholesale druggist (Lehn & Fink), son of Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio; by Mrs. Marguerite Fess, onetime secretary to the Senator; in Manhattan; on the grounds of drunkenness and misconduct.

Elected. Arthur Irving Philp, to be board chairman of Durant Motors, Inc., following a general Durant re-organization upon withdrawal of William Crapo Durant from active direction of the company.

Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years.

Died. Mrs. Viola Austman Fokker, 29, of Manhattan, Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after her.

Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often said his three wives were "the pen, politics and aviation." He was in the advertising business.

Died. William Breining Ward, 44, of New Rochelle, N. Y., board chairman of Ward Baking Corp.; of heart disease; in his office in The Bronx, N. Y.

Died. Dr. Robert Josselyn Leonard, 44, director of the School of Education at Teachers' College, Columbia University, native of California; after illness with influenza and a nine-floor fall, possibly suicidal, from his apartment window; in Manhattan.

Died. Luke O'Connor, 65, of Brooklyn, N. Y., onetime Greenwich Village saloonkeeper; in Brooklyn. In the '90s Saloonkeeper O'Connor gave a job as handyman to a pauperish youth who for two months polished the brass rail and cleaned the cuspidors. The handyman became Poet John Masefield.

Died. Edwin Denby, 58, of Detroit, Mich., onetime Secretary of the Navy (1921-24); of heart disease; in Detroit. Mr. Denby was born in Evansville, Ind. As a boy he went to the Orient with his father, Charles Denby, onetime U. S. Minister to China. There he worked with the Chinese Customs Service. Returning to the U. S., he became a famed University of Michigan footballer, practiced law in Detroit, served in the Navy during the Spanish-American War, became U. S. Representative from Michigan, entered the automobile business (Denby trucks). He enlisted as a Marine private in the World War, saying: "Someone must enlist in the ranks. We can't all be officers." He became, however, a Major. As Secretary of the Navy he was implicated by rumor in the Fall-Doheny oil scandal. In 1924 the Senate passed a resolution that the President "immediately request the resignation" of Mr. Denby. This President Coolidge refused to do, but Mr. Denby resigned a week later. No evidence was ever found against him. The Supreme Court held that "he took no active part in the negotiations and that Fall, acting collusively with Doheny, dominated the making of the contracts and leases."

Died. Sidi Mohammed el Habib, 71, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. His successor is his nephew, Sidi Ahmed.

Died. The Rev. Frederick Taylor Gates, 75, of Montclair, N. J., longtime (1893-1912) business and benevolent representative of John Davison Rockefeller, chairman of the board of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Baptist clergyman; of pneumonia and acute appendicitis in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Jim Connell, 76, of London. English Socialist leader; in Lewisham, England. His biography in the British Who's Who includes: "Education: under a hedge for a few weeks. Has been a sheep farmer, dock labourer, navvy, railway man, draper, journalist, lawyer (of a sort); and all the time a poacher. Publications: The Red Flag and many other Socialist songs and poems . . . The Horse and How to Treat Him . . . The Confessions of a Poacher. Recreation: poaching."