Monday, May. 30, 1927
MILESTONES
Engaged. Anna Fay Prosser, daughter of Seward Prosser, famed Manhattan banker; to Dan Platt Caulkins of Detroit, quarterback on Princeton's 1926 football eleven.
Engaged. Nancy Waterbury, daughter of Manhattan sportsman Lawrence Waterbury, onetime famed poloist, and great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston, first Chancellor of New York; to one Harry Carter Milholland Jr. of Pittsburgh.
Engaged. Justine Waterman Wise, daughter of famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; to Leon Arthur Tulin, assistant professor in the Yale Law School, where she is a student.
Married. Ernestina Calles, 20, daughter of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles; to one Thomas Arnold Robinson, 35, Manhattan businessman; at Nogales, Ariz. President Calles was not present owing to pressure of work.
Married. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell; third-cousin-once-removed of President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell;* to Julia Brokaw, direct descendant of Bourgon Broucard,/- French Huguenot exile, who sought refuge in America in 1675; in Manhattan. Headmaster the Rev. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, officiated.
Married. Walter Hill, 43, son of the late Railroader James J. Hill; to Mildred Richardson, onetime Follies actress; at Livingston, Mont.; immediately after receiving a divorce from Mrs. Pauline Hill.
Died. Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet, 38, famed cabaret dancer; from tuberculosis, in Lausanne, Switzerland. His dancing partners, two of whom he married, included: Joan Sawyer, his onetime wife Florence Walton, Leonora Hughes, Barbara Bennett and his widow Eleanor Ambrose.
Died. Anton T. Kliegl, 54, developer of the famed Klieglight, which has enabled cinema directors to photograph outdoor scenes in the studio; suddenly, in Bad Kissingen, Germany, his birthplace.
Died. Sam Bernard,** 63, German-character comedian, who celebrated in March his 50th year of acting; of apoplexy; in the smoking-room of the North German Lloyd Liner Columbus. He appeared in Nearly a Hero, All for the Ladies, Friendly Enemies, As You Were.
Died. Mengo L. Morgenthau, 67, president of the Mirror Candy Co., brother of onetime (1913-16) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau; in Manhattan; after a short illness.
Died. Henry Edwards Huntington, 77, California railroader and art collector; in Philadelphia, after an operation. He bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," a Gutenberg Bible, the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, etc.; owned the most valuable collection of first editions in the world.
Died. James E. Butler, 77, famed 12-year-old "Drummer boy of Shiloh," who answered President Lincoln's first call for volunteers in 1861; at Franklin, Pa.
*The groom's father, James B. Burnett legally took his mother's name -- Lowell.
/-Later simplified to Brokaw.
**Originally named Samuel Barnet, but at 14, just before his first stage appearance, he was accidentally dubbed Sam Bernard by the stage manager, who misunderstood his shy murmur. He kept the misnomer, made it legal in 1907.