Milestones

Engaged. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And So To Bed, also the lead in The Zoo (new play by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith); said he: "I am already engaged to be married."

Married. Louise Mitchell, youngest daughter of Banker John J. Mitchell (Illinois Merchants Trust Co.), to one John Payne Kellogg; at Lake Geneva, near Chicago. The ceremony was performed in what was the Ceylonese exhibition room at the Chicago World's Fair of 1892-3.

Married. Sean O'Casey, famed Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock) ; to Eileen Carey, actress (Irish Players Co.) ; in London. Eccentric Mr. O'Casey wore a sweater during the ceremony, as he usually does to theatre first nights.

Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she married one Robin Niles of Manhattan.

Married. Miss Flora M. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-Elect William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania; to one John R. Williams, Jr.; in Ambler, Penn.

Divorced. By Mrs. Alice Meyer Rodgers, daughter of the late George Von Lengerke Meyer, Postmaster general under President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy under President Taft; Com-mander Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, U. S. N.; in Paris.

Died. Adrian Stokes, 40, famed London pathologist, "mental and physical giant," member of the Rockefeller Commission on yellow fever; at Lagos, West Africa; of yellow fever.

Died. Samuel Lewis Shank, 55, onetime mayor of Indianapolis; in Indianapolis; of sudden heart attack.

Died. James S. Harlan, 66, one-time (1906-18) member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, son of the late John Marshall Harlan, onetime (1877-1911) Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; in Essex, N. J.

Died. Edward A. Noonan, 77, onetime (1889-93) mayor of St. Louis; in St. Louis; a suicide (revolver). A note he left read: "Speak of me as a successful lawyer."

Died. Marshall Hubert Mallory, 84, bachelor, nearly 50 years (until retirement in 1912) publisher of the Churchman, national Episcopal weekly; in Manhattan.