Engagement Reported. Playwright Eugene (Strange Interlude) O'Neill; to Danish-French actress Carlotta Monterey, onetime leading woman in Playwright O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. He cannot be married until a final decree of divorce has been granted to his second wife, Agnes Burton O'Neill, by whom he has two children, Una and Shane.

Married. Capt. Filippi Zappi, navigator of the doomed Nobile dirigible Italia, who was rescued wearing the clothes of his dead Swedish comrade, Finn Malmgren; and one Mile. Le Coultre; in Le Sender, Switzerland. Last month in Manhattan, when a newsreel cinema showed pictures of Capt. Zappi, voices in the audience snarled: "Cannibal!"

Married. Alice Smoot, 18, of Washington, granddaughter of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; and Frederic H. Chambers, 22, radio magazineman of Washington; after an elopement to Frederick, Md.

Married. Margaret Hoffman Gallatin, descendant of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison; and Dr. Clement Biddle Penrose Cobb, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.

Married. Virginia Craigie McKay, Pittsburgh horsewoman and socialite; and A. Charles Schwartz, Manhattan poloist, owner of Jack Homer, 1926 winner of the Grand National Sweepstakes at Aintree, England; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Frederick Cameron Church Jr., Boston scion, insurance man; by Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church of Newport, R. I., "Golden Girl," daughter of Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt; on the ground of nonsupport; in Newport, R. I.

Divorced. Percy L. Crosby of Manhattan, cartoonist (Skippy), art editor of Life; by Mrs. Gertrude V. Crosby, on the ground of extreme cruelty ("vile and obscene" language, flirtations). The Crosbys were married in 1917, have a seven-year-old daughter.

Elected. Harry A. Cronk of White Plains, N. Y., longtime Borden employe; to be president of Borden Farm Products Co., Inc. (world's largest milk producers).

Died. Cregar B. Quaintance of Denver, able lawyer, onetime crack pitcher at Amherst College and the University of Michigan; by murder; in Denver.

Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night.

"Who are you?" hissed a cutter.

"The church."

"What the hell is the church doing out here?"

"Its work."

Died. Thomas ("Fatty") Walsh, alleged narcotic ringmaster, onetime bodyguard of the late murdered Manhattan gambler, Arnold Rothstein; by murder; in the Miami Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Fla.

Died. Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles, 65, of Bronxville, N. Y., president of the Johns-Manville Corp., onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., onetime bicycle enthusiast & manufacturer, native of Jersey City, N. J.; of heart disease; in Del Monte, Cal.

Died. Benjamin Arrowsmith Hegeman, 68, Manhattan railroad magnate, manufacturer (railway appliances, varnish), onetime president of the American Railway Association; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Thomas Taggart, 72, of French Lick, Ind., longtime Democratic boss; of stomach trouble; in Indianapolis.

Died. David D. Buick, 74, of Detroit, impoverished information clerk, motorcar pioneer; of cancer; in Detroit.

Died. The Rt. Rev. George Henry Somerset Walpole, Bishop of Edinburgh, 75, "kindest man in Scotland," father of Novelist Hugh Walpole and onetime (1889-96) professor of dogmatic theology at the General Theological Seminary (Manhattan); in Edinburgh.

Died. Moses Edwin Clapp ("The Black Eagle of Minnesota"), 77, Washington lawyer, longtime Republican Senator from Minnesota (1901-17), Progressive associate of the late, great Robert Marion La Follette; of apoplexy; at his country home, Union Farm (once part of George Washington's estate), near Accotink, Va. In the 1916 Minnesota primary. Senator Clapp was defeated, as was the late U. S. Representative Charles A. Lindbergh. The victor was Frank Billings Kellogg. In 1927 Mr. Clapp rescued his small granddaughter from drowning in the Potomac, suffered a lasting shock.

Died. John Isaac Waterbury, 78, of Manhattan and Morristown, N. J., financier (banks, railways, telephones), socialite, patron of the liberal arts; in Morristown.

Died. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (retired), 85, of Baltimore, Civil War veteran, father of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commander of the Yangtze patrol of the U. S. Asiatic fleet; in Baltimore.

Died. Robert Bannatyne, Viscount Finlay of Nairn, 86, of London, famed lawyer, British member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and of the International Court of Justice at Geneva; in London.