Married. Norma Talmadge, 36, cinemactress, recently divorced wife of Cinema Producer Joseph M. Schenck (TIME, April 23); and George Jessel, comedian; in Atlantic City.

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Married. Dorothy Constance Spreckels, 21, daughter of the late Adolph Bernard Spreckels, California sugarman; and Jean Dupuy, 24, son of Mme Paul Dupuy, French newspaper and magazine owner (Le Petit Parisien, Excelsior); in Manhattan.

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Sued for Divorce. Paul Gallico, sports editor of the tabloid New York Daily News; by Mrs. Alva Taylor Gallico; in Reno. Charge: cruelty.

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Died. Col. William Thaw II, 40, pioneer U. S. aviator who once flew under the four bridges which spanned New York City's East River, Wartime commander of the Lafayette Escadrille; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh.

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Died. Guy Holt, 42, publisher, director of Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill book-publishing subsidiary; of a heart attack following amebic dysentery contracted at last year's Chicago Fair (TIME, March 19 et ante) ; in Manhattan.

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Died. John James Elaine, 58, thrice Governor of Wisconsin, U. S. Senator (1927-33); of pneumonia; in Boscobel, Wis. A Progressive Republican pupil of the late Robert Marion La Follette, John Elaine supported the Presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson (1912), Senator La Follette (1924). Alfred Emanuel Smith (1928), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., formation of which he had opposed under President Hoover.

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Died. David Lincoln Luke, 69, president of West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

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Died. Mrs. Vanderbilt, circa 89, dowager of the family; after long social retirement; of old age; in Manhattan. Born Alice Claypoole Gwynne, she was married in 1867 to the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died 1899), grandson of the fortune-founding Commodore. Her only social battle (which she eventually won) was with her sister-in-law, the late Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) for the supremacy of the Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read: "Mrs. Vanderbilt." She bore six children: Brigadier General Cornelius; Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney); Gladys (Countess Szechenyi); William Henry (died 1892); Alfred Gwynne, who died on the Lusitania; Reginald Claypoole (died 1925).

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