Born. To Natalie Cantor Metzger, 22, second of Eddie Cantor's five daughters, and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 24, Hollywood antique dealer, a son, their first child. Eddie Cantor's first grandson; in Hollywood, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: Michael. In Boston, Grandfather Cantor, 46, dashed back on the stage in a short skirt and golden wig he had been wearing in impersonation of Shirley Temple, popped his doorknob eyes, screamed his glad news to 5,000 cheering customers.

Born. To Sylvia Sidney, 29, (nee Ko-sow), sad-eyed cinemactress; and Luther Adler, 36, legitimate actor (Golden Boy); their first child, a son, in Manhattan. Weight: 5 lbs. 8 oz.

Born. To (James) Vincent Sheean, 39, war correspondent, peripatetic journalist, novelist, best-selling autobiographer (Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword), and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 24: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10z. Name: Ellen Gertrude.

Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London.

Married. Alfred Gustavus Baker Lewis, 42, wealthy, spasmodic Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; and Mrs. Eileen O'Connor Lane, 36, Socialist candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of State last year; both for the second time; in Boston, Mass.

Separated. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., 30, arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler, and Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes Chrysler, by mutual consent, after a marriage of 18 months; in Manhattan.

Seeking Divorce. Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta, 53, toad-shaped Mexican muralist otherwise known as Diego Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacan haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida's legal position . . . purely a matter of legal convenience in the spirit of modern times."

Divorced. Conrad Thibault, 34, opera & radio baritone who as a choirboy was encouraged by the late Calvin Coolidge to make singing his career; by Elinor Kendall Thibault, 29; in Reno, Nev. Immediately after the divorce, Mrs. Thibault married Frank James Welton, 23, of New York.

Died. Contessa Maria Ciano Magistrati, 33, sister of Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano; in Rome.

Died. Dorothy Maud, Countess Haig, 60, widow of the late plodding Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary P'orce during World War I; in Glyn Bangor, North Wales. In The Man I Knew, she warmly defended her much-criticized husband after his death.

Died. Zane Grey, 64, best-selling romancer of the open range, record-holding deep-sea angler; of coronary thrombosis; in Altadena, Calif. Native of Zanesville, Ohio (named after his family), former dentist, former baseball player, he had to publish his first book himself, hit the jackpot with Riders of the Purple Sage, turned out 37 novels in 35 years-for over 15,-ooo.ooo readers.

Died. Sir William Jackson Pope, 69, famed British chemist whose experiments enabled the Allies to produce mustard gas in quantity during World War I; in London, England.

Died. Monsignor Michael Joseph Lavelle, 83, for 52 years pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Vicar General of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese; after long illness; in Manhattan. He was uniquely honored by being the first ecclesiastic below archiepiscopal rank to be buried in the cathedral crypt, in company with three Cardinals, two archbishops, including his old friend and superior, Patrick Cardinal Hayes.

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