Monday, Aug. 26, 1929
Married. Eleanora Ambrose Maurice, 27, widow and partner of the late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests.
Married. Miss Josephine McClellan of Manhattan, daughter of the late General John McClellan; and Cuthbert Lee, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.
Seeking Divorce. Pauline Parker Assolant, onetime U. S. chorus girl, from Jean Assolant, trans-Atlantic flyer; in Paris.
Divorced. By Dr. Clarence Cook Little, retired President of the University of Michigan, Mrs. Katherine Day Andrews Little. Charges: cruelty, desertion.
Died. John ("Old John") Pringle, of Los Angeles, $3-a-day cinema extra, father of Cinemactor John Gilbert in Los Angeles.
Died. John Bennett Daniel, 29, of Manhattan, National Broadcasting Co. announcer, introducer of many a famed speaker (President Hoover and Coolidge), describer of many a famed event (Lindbergh reception, Graf Zeppelin arrivals at Lakehurst, inaugurations); in Manhattan.
Died. Joseph A. Warren, 47, of New York, predecessor to New York Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen; at Greenwich, Conn. Longtime friend of Mayor James John Walker, his college mate at St. Francis Xavier College and New York Law School. Mr. Warren was broken in health since he "resigned" last year (TIME, Dec. 24) after failing to solve the still unsolved killing of Gambler Arnold Rothstein.
Died. James Elliott, 49, of Pelham, N. Y., president of Underwood & Underwood, famed photographers; at Poland Springs, Me.
Died. Israel Miller, 62, of Manhattan, Polish-born shoemaker and shoe-stylist, president of I. Miller & Sons (shoe store chain); in Paris.
Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon.
*Not until 1875 was there a Harvard-Yale football game.