Married. Edmund Purdom, 30, British-born actor of screen (The Egyptian) and TV; and Alicja Darr, 26, Polish-born blonde painter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan.

Marriage Revealed. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song) and cinemactor (Carmen Jones); and Julie Robinson, 28, sometime dancer with Katherine Dunham's troupe; on March 8, a week after his divorce from Wife No. 1; in Tecate, Mexico.

Died. Dorothy Sebastian, 50, oldtime (1925-32) cinemactress (Sackcloth and Scarlet, Our Dancing Daughters) and onetime (1930-36) wife of William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, with whom she appeared in His First Command, The Big Gamble; of cancer; in Hollywood.

Died. Theodore Edwin Stein way, 73, board chairman of Steinway & Sons, who could "put a piano together blindfolded," grandson of Founder (in 1853) Henry Engelhard Steinway and one of the world's leading stamp collectors; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Freeman Wills Crofts, 77, British railroad engineer who first tinkered, during a 1919 illness, with a detective novel (The Cask) that eventually sold 100,000 copies, turned to full-time writing in 1929 and produced roughly a book a year thereafter (Inspector French's Greatest Case; Man Overboard), most featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard; in Worthing, England.

Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa.

Died. Herbert Halsey Maass, 79, one of the original trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. (founded 1930) and a board chairman since 1942; after long illness; in Manhattan. Attorney and corporation executive (Pershing Square Building Corp., Consolidated Cigar Corp.), Maass was instrumental in bringing the late Albert Einstein onto the faculty in 1933, presided over the October 1954 meeting which unanimously re-elected Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the institute's director after he had been declared a security risk.

Died. Alice Rohe, 81, veteran spinster journalist and magazine writer, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau (United Press in Rome, 1914), the first woman (1927) to interview Mussolini after his rise to power; in Manhattan.

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