Monday, Oct. 08, 1923
Born. To Eliot Wadsworth, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Mrs. Wadsworth, in Manhattan, a daughter, Nancy.
Married. Miss Geneva Mitchell, famed chorus girl, to Jack Hayes, theatrical publicity agent, in Cleveland. Her first marriage, to Robert Savage, wealthy Yale student, was annulled last year. Her mother stated that she is now 16.
Married. Miss Helen Cannon Le Seure of Danville, Ill., granddaughter of ex-Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the House of Representatives (TIME, March 3), to Dorsey Richardson of Baltimore, Director General for Europe of the U. S. Lines, in London.
Died. Jerome Patrick, actor, 39, in Manhattan, of heart disease. He last appeared as leading man to Miss Alice Brady in Zander the Great.
Died. Hon. Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert, one-time diplomat, half-brother of the late Earl of Carnarvon, in London, following an operation. When the tomb of TutankhAmen was opened he is said to have exclaimed: " Something dreadful will surely happen in our family!"
Died. Mrs. Ellen Shehan Hanlon, 90, in Manhattan. She was employed by President Lincoln while in the White House as nurse to his son, Robert Todd Lincoln.
Died. Eduardo Calosso, 67, Italian artist, at Turin, of heart failure, while painting a portrait of Monsignor Bartolomei, Bishop of Pinerolo. The Bishop administered the last Sacraments to him before he expired.
Died. Lyman Stewart, 83, pioneer Californian oilman, at Los Angeles. Starting three years before John D. Rockefeller, he built up the Union Oil Co., now capitalized at $100,000,000.
Died. Sir J. Halliday Groom, 76, at Edinburgh. He was former President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, once President of the British Gynecological Society, three times President of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society.
Died. William Henry Ellis, the "man who would be king," 59, at Mexico City. (See page 2.)
Died. Count Mattachich, Austrian nobleman and former Army officer, in Paris. Twenty years ago he eloped with Princess Louise of Saxe- Coburg-und-Gotha, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philippe of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, mother-in-law of the late Kaiserin's brother, Duke Ernst Guenther. He was at once imprisoned on a charge of forgery; she was shut up in an asylum. Six years later, he carried out an abduction of the Princess. Thereafter, in spite of poverty and snubs, they never separated.