Born. To William Emmett Dever, Mayor of Chicago, a granddaughter, in Chicago.

Engaged. Virginia Insull, daughter of Martin J. Insull, niece of Samuel Insull, electricity-gas-transportation magnates; to Major William A. Rafferty, U. S. A. (retired).

Engaged. Evelina Porter Gleaves, daughter of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves (retired); to Albert Morris Cohen, onetime commander, U. S. N.

Married. Frances Lehman, daughter of Arthur Lehman (banker-realtor) granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn (capitalist-philanthropist); to John L. Loeb, son of Carl M. Loeb (President, American Metal Co.); in Manhattan, at the home of Mr. Lewisohn.

Married. Patrick A. ("Pat") McKenna, doorkeeper for five Presidents and still on duty; to one Marguerite A. Smith; in Washington. He did not inform anyone, even President Coolidge.

Married. Charlotte MacDougall, daughter of Rear Admiral William Dugald MacDougall; to Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister to China and Japan; at Portsmouth, N. H. Married. Lawrence Lewis, one-time husband of Louise Wise Lewis (who inherited part of the Flagler railroad and oil millions); to one Ruby Vaughan Bigger; in Richmond, Va.

Married. Katherine Wright, sister of Orville and the late Wilbur Wright (airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington.

Died. John Fairbanks, 43, brother of Douglas Fairbanks and General Manager of the Douglas Fairbanks Picture Corp.; in Hollywood, Calif., of paralytic stroke.

Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Carr, 46, sheriff-elect of Cook County (Chicago); of ulcers of the stomach (see p. 11).

Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form.

Died. Aimee Dostoievsky, 56, daughter of Feodor Dostoievsky; in Bolzano, Italy; of tuberculosis. She had written a penetrating sutdy of her novelist father, whose death in 1881 was not recorded in the Occidental press, to which he was then unkown.

Died. Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham,

63, Countess of Yarborough,-- Baroness Conyers, Baroness Fauconberg, a peeress in her own right; at Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire, Eng.; of sleeping sickness. Died. James ("Uncle Jimmie") Furman Kemp, 67, famed geologist, professor at Columbia since 1891; in Great Neck, L. I.; suddenly, of heart failure, en route to Columbia University. Died. William Ratcliffe Irby, 67, Chairman Canal Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans (largest Southern bank), director, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., philanthropist; in New Orleans; by suicide, following ill health. At an undertaker's he selected his own casket, then shot himself on the premises. He was a representative old-school Southerner of great power and dignity. To Tulane University, of which he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees, he had presented many historic New Orleans French quarter buildings, on condition they be always kept intact.

Died. Thomas Cusack, 68, self-made immigrant founder of the largest outdoor advertising firm in the U. S. (Thomas Cusack Co.) ; in Oak Park, Ill., of pneumonia. In 1924 he retired, his firm (then worth $23,000,000) being taken over by a Manhattan banking syndicate.

Died. Clement King Shorter, 69, British editor and noted literary critic; at Great Missenden, Eng. Curiously he combined the title "father of the tabloids" with the writing of excellent biographies and literary criticism, especially of the Brontes, on whom he was authority.

Died. Lafayette ("Lafe") Young, 78, "Iowa's chief citizen," editor, Des Moines Capital; in Des Moines; of heart failure, following a Turkish bath. He was an old-school journalist who set type at 15; had worked in every newspaper department. Godfearing, bedrock Republican, he typified essential Iowa despite modern radicals.

Died. Grace, Duchess of St. Albans, intimate friend of Queen Victoria; in London. The present Duke, her stepson, is mentally unsound, and her son, Lord Osborne De Vere, is heir.

Died. Joseph McKenna, 83, one-time (1898-1925) Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; at his apartment in Washington (see p. 9).

*Famous Players-Lasky are now negotiating with George Bernard Shaw, on a $100,000 basis, for the picture rights to Cashel Byron's Profession, the 40-year-old story of prizefighters. In operating Famous Players-Lasky, Adolph Zukor oversees the finances, Jesse L. Lasky the production.

*A year ago, the then Miss Emery bagged a pair of lions in Africa.

* Yarborough: a hand at bridge in which there is no card higher than a nine. So-called because the second Lord Yarborough (early 19th Century) used to lay -L-1,000 to -L- 1 against such an occurrence in any named hand. The actual mathematical odds are 1.827 to 1 against.