Engagement denied. Carl Wiedemann, of Newport, Ky., brewer, owner of the race horse In Memoriam, to Miss Allyn King, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, Ladies' Night (TIME, Dec. 17). Said he: "I am neither married nor engaged."

Engaged. Miss Helena Simon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Simon (apparel), of Manhattan, to Lawrence M. Lloyd of Manhattan.

Engaged. Prince Erik, 31, third son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark, first cousin of King George of England and King Christian of Denmark, to Miss Lois Frances Booth, granddaughter of J. R. Booth, Canadian lumber king. Before announcing his engagement, the Prince renounced all rights to the Danish throne, for which he is eighth in direct male line, those preceding him being King Christian's two sons, Frederic and Kund, his two brothers, Harald and Gustave, Harald's son (born in 1919), Prince Erik's father, Valdemar, his brother, Axel.

Engaged. James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, to Miss Dorothy Virginia Wadman of Mamaroneck, N. Y.

Reported engaged. Prince Viggo, 30, fourth son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark, to Miss Eleanor Margaret Green of Manhattan, great granddaughter of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union. To marry Miss Green, the Prince renounced all rights to the Danish throne, for which he is eighth in direct male line since his brother Erik relinquished his claim. Miss Green and her father, Dr. James O. Green, emphatically denied the report of an engagement.

Married. Charles I. McNary, 49, senior Senator from Oregon, to Miss Cornelia W. Morton, his onetime secretary.

Married. Edith Antoinette Savoy, daughter of "Eddie" Savoy, to Robert Morgan of Washington. "Eddie," Negro messenger to the office of Sectary of State since 1869, has served under Hamilton Fish, William M. Ewarts, James G. Blaine, F. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard, John W. Foster, Walter Q. Gresham, Richard Olney, John Sherman, William R. Day, John Hay, Elihu Root, Robert Bacon, Philander C. Knox, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, Bainbridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes. In recent years, he has presented passports to all representatives of foreign governments, including Bernstorff and Dumba.

Married. Robert H. McAdoo, son of William Gibbs McAdoo, to Miss Lorraine Arnold Rowan, of Pasadena and Paris, at Pasadena.

Separated. Mrs. Willie Hoppe, from her husband, world's champion billiard player.

Divorced. Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, deposed cinema clown, by Minta Durfee Arbuckle. She charged desertion, nonsupport. He did not appear, made no contest.

Died. Mrs. Joseph Tinker, 41, wife of the famed former Chicago Cub shortstop, suicide (by shooting) while temporarily mentally deranged, at Orlando, Fla.

Died. Richard Witting, brother of Maximilian Harden, famed German publicist, onetime friend of the ex-Kaiser, onetime Oberburgomaster of Posen, later a radical pacifist and antimonarchist; in Berlin.

Died. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, 91, engineer-builder of the Eiffel Tower, highest structure in the world, constructor of the interior framework for the Statue of Liberty, builder of the great sluices of the French Panama Canal; at Paris. In his early youth he showed genius for constructive engineering and at 26 designed and built the iron bridge over the Garonne at Bordeaux, one of the monumental viaducts of Europe.