Born. To Aviation Captain Bruno Mussolini, 22, second .son of II Duce, and Gina Ruberti Mussolini, 22: their first child, a daughter; in Rome. Name: Marina.

Married. Film Comedian Oliver Hardy, 48, plump half of Laurel & Hardy; and Virginia Lucille Jones, 26, studio script girl; he for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Peggy Ann Kent, 22, daughter of Sidney Raymond Kent, president of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; and Ernest Westmore, 35, make-up expert; each for the third time; in Warrenton, Va. Said she: "We haven't received Dad's blessings, but we have his permission."

Divorced. James Roosevelt, 32; by Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 31, favorite daughter-in-law of President Roosevelt; by default (TIME, March 11); in Los Angeles.

Died. Henry Tindall Merrill Jr., 11-month-old son of Flier "Dick" Merrill and Cinemactress Toby Wing; of suffocation (he was first thought to have strangled in his bedclothes); in Forest Hills, L. I.

Died. John Monk Saunders, 42, Hollywood screen writer (Wings, The Dawn Patrol, The Last Flight), divorced husband of Cinemactress Fay Wray; by his own hand (hanging) while in ill health; in Fort Myers, Fla. His last film story, bought by Paramount, was based on news reports of a French "suicide corps" formed by hopelessly ill men.

Died. David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford, 69, Premier Earl of Scotland, 18 years an elected member of Parliament, onetime Lord Privy Seal, elder brother of Sir Ronald Lindsay; of pneumonia; in Wigan, England.

Died. Maxine Elliott, 69, stage beauty; of a heart ailment; in Juan-les-Pins, France (see p. 65).

Died. Dr. John Huston Finley, 76, walker (ten or twelve miles a day), talker (afterdinner and lectures), editor-emeritus of the New York Times; of a coronary embolism, while asleep; in Manhattan.

Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years.

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