Monday, May. 12, 1930

Engaged. Julian Street, 51, writer (Rita Coventry, Mr. Bisbee's Princess, Cross-Sections) ; and Margot Andre (Marguerite Skibeness), dramatic technician.

Engaged. Thomas Archibald Stone, popular, musical second secretary of the Canadian Legation at Washington; and Miss Ellen Cox Ewing, Manhattan socialite, daughter of Thomas Ewing, U. S. Commissioner of Patents under President Wilson. Wedding: at Sorrento, Me., this summer.

Engaged. Elizabeth Evans Hughes, 23, daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, 25, lawyer employe of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, the Chief Justice's onetime Manhattan firm.

Engaged. John Hope Doeg, 1930 Davis Cup Team member, third ranking U. S. tennis player; and Dorothea Scudder, Newark socialite.

Married. John Wellborn Root, famed Chicago architect; and Mrs. Aletta Stout Gellatly, of Chicago and East Orange, N. J.; in Manhattan. Mr. Root was divorced two months ago by Mrs. Ellen Dudley Root.

Married. Francis Augustus Drake, son of Chicago hotel tycoon Tracy Corey Drake; and Virginia Chapin, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.

Married. Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Manhattan investment brokers; to Mrs. May Francis; in Reno, Nev.; 24 hours after being divorced by Mrs. Helen Werner Catchings. Mr. Catchings established Nevada residence; Mrs. Catchings sued. Reputed settlement (out of court): $1,000,000 cash, $50,000 a year alimony, $100,000 a year for maintenance of three minor children.

Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, Manhattan socialite, from Marshall Field, Ill, grandson of the late Chicago department-store tycoon; at Reno, Nev. A settlement out of court gives Mrs. Field a $3,000,000 town house in Manhattan, more than $1,000,000 a year alimony, custody of the three children: Marshall IV, 14; Barbara, 11; Bernice, 6.

Sued for Divorce. Joseph Schildkraut, cinemactor; by Elise Bartlett-Porter Schildkraut, actress. Charges: that he smashed vases, furniture, called her an ignoramus, a fool.

Divorced. Sir James Heath. 78, British iron tycoon; by Lady Mary Heath, aviatrix (Capetown-to-London); at Reno, Nev. She called Sir James "the tight knight," said he was "a bit touched."

Anniversary. Alvin Schmidt, Swiss manufacturing tycoon, and Frau Schmidt; their silver wedding. Celebration: a 9 hr. 20 min. joyride with 34 guests over the Alps from Basle in the Graf Zeppelin, chartered for the day for $3,600.

Died. Baroness Haldon, 62, after walking off the edge of the Brighton Cliffs in a state of somnambulism.

Died. Mrs. Lina Gutherz Straus, 77, wife of Philanthropist Nathan Straus, with him student and popularizer of milk-pasteurization; at her home, "Driftwood," Mamaroneck, N. Y.

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