Married. Lorraine Liggett, daughter of Louis Kroh Liggett (drug stores); to Arthur Scrivenor Jr., of Richmond, Va.; at Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Birthday. Louis Wiley, 60, business manager of the New York Times; in Rochester, N. Y., where he got his start on the Post-Express. The local Press Club which he helped found in 1888 gave him a banquet. Encomiums poured in signed by Hoover, Taft, Coolidge, Smith, Roosevelt, Eastman, Pulitzer, Swope, Bok, Block, Bernstein, Cohn, Wise, Lazansky, etc. etc.

Birthday. Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XL, 72; at Vatican City. He received relatives, suspended regular audiences for the day.

Sued. Eugene O'Neill, playwright; by Gladys Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy."

Elected. David Belasco, famed Manhattan theatrical producer; as a governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England.

Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play.

Died. Howard de Talleyrand, Prince de Sagan, 19, of Paris, son of Duchess de Talleyrand (Anna Gould); in Paris; of pleural complications after shooting himself because his parents refused to let him marry until he became of age (TIME, June 3).

Died. Chicago May (Mrs. May Churchill Sharpe), 52, reformed international crook; on the eve of marriage to her oldtime comrade "Charlie Smith" (Robert Considine); in a Philadelphia hospital.

Died. Edward Francis ("Mister") Gallagher, 56, once famed comedy singer with Al ("Mister") Shean; for four years a paralytic cripple; in Astoria, L. I. Four times married, thrice divorced, once wealthy, "Mister" Gallagher died penniless, supported for the last three years by his third wife (Helen Rogers Gallagher).

Died. Harriet Kurd McClure, 73, of Waterbury, Conn., wife of Samuel Sidney McClure, founder-publisher of McClure's Magazine; at Waterbury. She was the first woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa (Knox College, 1877).

Died. Dr. Edward Mansfield McGuffey, 74, of Elmhurst, N. Y., rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, authority on canon law, son of the late Alexander McGuffey (coauthor of famed McGuffey Readers); in Elmhurst.