Monday, Apr. 23, 1934
Married. Jean Wingfield, daughter of Nevada's famed George Wingfield, onetime cowboy, gambler, speculator, mine owner, banker (whose twelve Nevada banks are closed); and Chauncey McKeever, Oxford graduate, Chicago broker; in Manhattan.
Married. Countess Felicia Gizycka, 28, daughter of Eleanor Medill Patterson, editor of the Washington, D. C. Herald; and Dudley de Lavinge, 28, insurance man; in London. Countess Felicia's first husband was Drew Pearson, Washington correspondent.
Married. Lionel Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, 44, grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson; and Mrs. Joseph William Donner, daughter of Howard Elting, onetime Chicago builder & paintmaker; in Santa Barbara. Mrs. Donner's late husband was the brother of Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, first wife of the President's son Elliott.
Divorce Revealed. Sonia Abuza Tuck Westphal Lackerman ("Sophie Tucker"), 50, actress, oldtime singer; from her third husband, one Albert Lackerman, Manhattan dress merchant; in Chicago (September 1933). Grounds: cruelty, demands for money, slapping.
Divorced. Norma Talmadge, 36, old-time cinemactress; from Producer Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists Corp.; after a six-year separation; in Juarez, Mexico. Questioned about the divorce Actor George Jessel, whose possible marriage to Miss Talmadge has been rumored by friends, said: "That's fine. . . . I think she's very nice."
Awarded. To Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer: the London Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal, England's highest astronomical award. Other winners: Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington.
Died. Thomas A. Holt, 38, University of Michigan "human rabbit"; by his own hand (hanging) after murdering his wife; near Imlay City, Mich. Nine years ago "Human Rabbit" Holt offered to commit suicide, sell his body to the University of Michigan for experimentation. Instead he was made janitor, later consented to live in a glass cage, undergo feeding experiments conducted by Michigan's Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh.
Died. Karl Dane (Rasmus Karl Thekelsen Gottlieb), 47, cinemactor who achieved fame as "Slim" in The Big Parade; by his own hand (revolver); in Hollywood. Reason: in the talkies he could find no job.
Died. Jolly Garner, 48, U. S. Customs guard, brother of Vice President John Nance Garner: by his own hand (revolver) ; in El Paso.
Died. Theodore Douglas Robinson, 50, nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Coolidge; of pneumonia; in Warren, N. Y.
Died. William Bradley Walker, 60, president of Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.; following an operation for intestinal disorder; in Rochester, Minn.
Died. Sir Gerald du Maurier, 61, actor, manager, son of the late Artist & Novelist George du Maurier (Trilby, Peter Ibbetson); following an operation for an internal disorder; in London. In 1896 Sir Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine the Great.
Died. Hoke W. Donithen, 61, manager of Warren Gamaliel Harding's senatorial and presidential campaigns; of angina pectoris; in Marion. Ohio.
Died. Edwin Vernon Morgan, 69, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil for 20 years (1912-32); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Petropolis, Brazil.
Died. Dr. Alfredo Zayas, 73, onetime President of Cuba (1921-25), poet, lawyer, called "El Chino" (the Chinaman) because of his inscrutable face; of uremia; in Havana. Elected on a reform platform, he allowed his administration to become corrupt, was succeeded by General Gerardo Machado.
Died. Dr. Jacob A. Flexner, 76, pioneer in the use of diphtheria antitoxin; in Louisville. Ky. Of Dr. Flexner's five brothers. Simon is Director of the Rockefeller Institute of New York, Abraham is President of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Washington is onetime president of Chicago Lincoln Printing Co., Bernard is a Manhattan attorney, Isadore is a retired physician.
Died. Most Reverend John Joseph Nilan, 78, Catholic Bishop of Hartford, Conn.; of pneumonia; in Hartford.
Died. The Hon. John Collier, 84, "grand old man of British painting"; after long illness; in London. A stanchly conservative painter, Mr. Collier regularly had his pictures accepted by the Royal Academy. An exception (in 1927) was a portrait of George Bernard Shaw, refused after Shaw had ridiculed the Academy. Mr. Collier's first wife was Marian Huxley, daughter of the late great Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley. After her death he married Ethel Gladys Huxley, .one of her younger sisters.
Died. Sid Mohammed El Quebbas. 85, onetime Moroccan Minister of War who, in 1904. after President Theodore Roosevelt's challenge "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!" brought about the release of U. S. Citizen Ion Perdicaris and his stepson from Bandit Raisuli; in Medina. Arabia.
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