Engaged. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 45, curly-headed Australian pianist composer, to Miss Ella Viola Strom, Swedish poetess. Said Mr. Grainger, "She is ... a radiant Nordic--as lovely as the morning. ..." The honeymoon; tramps in Glacier National Park, Montana and in Iceland.

Engaged. Miss Catherine Smith, 22, younger daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; to Francis J. Quillinan, a deputy Attorney General of New York State and member of the legal staff of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner.

Married. Wilton Lackaye, 62, veteran actor (Trelawney of the Wells, Trilby), of Manhattan; to Miss Katherine Alberta Riley, 37, nurse, of Manhattan; by the priest who administered the last sacraments to Mr. Lackaye a year ago

Divorce Suit Rumored. Emily Charlotte (Lillie) Langtry, Lady De Bathe, 75, stage beauty of a generation ago; and her husband, Sir Hugo Gerald De Bathe, 56, of Monte Carlo. The "Jersey Lily," friend of King Edward VII and many another famed Victorian, emerged from a decade of retirement last year (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927) to deny charges of intimacy with Premier Gladstone, made by Author Peter Wright.

Sued for Divorce. Horace B. Liveright, publisher of famed Authors Ezra Pound, Emil Ludwig, Sherwood Anderson and many another producer (The Captive); by Mrs. Lucille L. Liveright, of Manhattan.

Divorced. Jacqueline Logan, saccharine cinemactress; from one Robert Gillespie; in Los Angeles. She charged that he kicked her and called her dumb.

Elected. Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Holyoke, Mass.; sent to be Dean of Religion at Princeton University, a newly created office.

Elected. James Dinsmore Tew, 45, vice president of the B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio; to be president of the corporation. A factory employee in 1906, Mr. Tew in twelve years became superintendent of the Akron plant, then works manager, vice president and general sales manager of the firm. He succeeds Harry Hough, who resigned last week, president since last September, when chairman and president Bertram G. Work died in Europe (TIME, Oct. 10). The chairman of the company, since the death of Bertram G. Work, has been David M. Goodrich, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, for whom the company was named.

Died. Mrs. Charlotte Smith Pickford, 55, mother of Cinemactors Mary, Lottie and Jack Pickford; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. William Cameron Sproul, 57, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania, Candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920 and long a leader in Republican politics; at Nether Providence Township near Chester, Pa. Successively farm boy, newspaper owner, manufacturer, politician, he was known as the "father of good roads in Pennsylvania." His favorite poem, "Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson, was recited at the funeral attended by leading Pennsylvanians.

Died. Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis, 62, Canadian banker, tobaccoman (Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada), sportsman, father-in-law of famed Actress Rosie Dolly; of heart disease; at Cannes.

Died. Louis J. Reckford, 62, president since 1886 of the American Lead Pencil Co. (plants in Hoboken, N. J., London & Paris); following a minor operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Thomas Alfred Wise, 63, veteran comedian, Shepherd of the Lambs Club; in Manhattan; of heart disease.

Died. Clement Rutter Stotesbury, 67, youngest brother of Philadelphia Morgan partner Edward Townsend Stotesbury; in Philadelphia; following the amputation of his right leg.

Died. Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, 75, LT. S. Senator from Michigan; of pneumonia; in Washington, D. C. (See p. 8.)