Monday, Oct. 25, 1926
MILESTONES
Married. Edwin Dooley, of Brooklyn, Dartmouth College quarterback; to Harriette Marie Feeley. The bridegroom is of All-American calibre at football; writes poetry.
Married. Milton Sills, cinema actor; to Miss Doris Kenyon, cinema actress; in the Adirondacks near Ausable Forks, N. Y. Mr. Sills's divorce from his former wife, Mrs. Gladys Sills, became final the day before the ceremony.
Married. Sidney Smith, 49, "Gump" cartoonist; to Mrs. Kathryn Imogene Eulette, 24, divorcee, at South Bend, Ind.
Divorced. Adolph Menjou, famed cinema actor; by Kathryn Menjou, in Los Angeles. He said she had made uncomplimentary references to his ancestors; she charged desertion, cruelty.
Died. Lola Fisher (Mrs. Kenneth Thompson), 34, actress; in Fleetwood, Yonkers, of tuberculosis. She played in Rio Grande, Under Cover, Be Calm Camilla, Good Gracious, Annabelle; acted with William Courtney, Ethel Barrymore.
Died. Lady Elizabeth Grace Dimsdale, 44, widow of Sir John Dimsdale of London, who shot himself in 1922, "social house mistress" at Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Conn., girls' school); in London, by drinking lysol.
Died. Harry H. Bassett, 51, president of the Buick Motor Co., vice president and director of General Motors Corp.; at the American Hospital in Neuilly, France, of double bronchial pneumonia. He had gone to Paris for the International Automobile Salon.
Died. William F. O'Hare, 56, Boston-born, Bishop of Jamaica, a Jesuit; at Kingston, Jamaica, while bathing. Jesuits, following Ignatius Loyola's rules of humility, rarely become bishops. But the Vicariate of Jamaica, where all priests are Jesuits, permits the exception.
Died. Henry Luce Fuqua, 61, Governor of Louisiana since 1924; at the Executive Mansion in Baton Rouge; of internal gastric hemorrhages, suddenly. He had been a hardware merchant, cane sugar farmer, warden of the state prison. As Governor of Louisiana he had fought the Ku Klux Klan.
Died. George H. McFadden, 79, for half a century the "guiding spirit of U. S. cotton trade"; in Philadelphia. The New York Cotton Exchange closed for two minutes in memoriam.