Monday, Nov. 12, 1928
Christened. Paul Joseph William Ziluca, great grandson of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, famed liberator of Italy. His father: Captain Joseph N. Ziluca, war veteran, engineer & architect of Greenwich, Conn. His mother: Donna Josephine Ziluca, sister of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford. His godfather: Sir Thomas Lipton.
Engaged. Elisabeth Wyatt of Manhattan, descendant of Van Rensselaer patroons, popular amateur dancer who appeared professionally in Oh Kay; to William A. Russell, Boston scion.
Engaged. Oliver Malcolm Wallop, onetime Yale poloist, second son of the Earl & Countess of Portsmouth, of Barton House, Morchard Bishop, Devonshire, England; and Jean Moore, daughter of Edward Small Moore, Manhattan capitalist (cans, biscuits, railways, banks). At the death of his older brother in 1925, Young Wallop's father succeeded to the Earldom. Formerly he had been a Wyoming rancher, a naturalized U. S. citizen.
Married. Ella Victoria Herbert of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed composer Victor Herbert; and Robert Stevens Bartlett of Binghampton, N. Y.; in Manhattan.
Married. Alicia Calles, 18, daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico; and Jorge Almada, 22, scion of sugar planters in the State of Sinaloa; in Mexico City.
Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce.
Married. Louise Vinci Querra, "Queen of Nebraska Bootleggers"; and Earl Manning, onetime dry agent; in Glenwood, Iowa. Agent Manning arrested Queen Querra, fell in love, joined her racket, was arrested, languished in Leavenworth, was recently released.
Married. Alexander Szabo, for the 12th time; at Budapest, where he is a famed actor. "God made me to be a husband," said he to reporters, "and all my wives helped me to pass my days agreeably."
Married. Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant; and John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams, son of Major General Sir John Hanbury-Williams of London; in Washington, D. C. President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding.
Married. Nourah Chard, private secretary to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister of England; and Sir Ronald Waterhouse, London investment banker, onetime private secretary to Prime Ministers Bonar Law, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin.
Separated. Mrs. Georgene Daw Whittlesey; from Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, Omnipotent Oom of a love cult in Nyack, N. Y.
Sued for Divorce. Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann of Berlin, son of famed Gerhart Hauptmann, German poet & dramatist; by Princess Elizabeth of Schaumburg Lippe.
Elected. Guy C. Smith, Chicago adman; to be president of the Association of National Advertisers; at their 19th annual convention, Atlantic City, N. J.
Elected. Arthur Train, Manhattan author, creator of the Mr. Tutt series in the Satevepost; to be President of the Authors' League of America; in Manhattan.
Elected. Dr. Frank Parker Day, onetime Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonial Imperial Yeomanry, Major of the 28th New Brunswick Dragoons; Master of Arts at Christ Church (The House), Oxford, college boxer, crew man; English lecturer at Swarthmore College, as president of Union College to succeed Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, resigned.
Reelected. George Middleton, Manhattan playwright (The House of a Thousand Candles, Polly With a Past); to the presidency of The Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America; in Manhattan.
Died. Noel Morris, 24, direct descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaueser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaueser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata.
Died. Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer, 32, and Harry Tucker, 34, famed transContinental flyers, flying the Lockheed-Vega plane, Yankee Doodle, following a crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight--24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes, fastest non-stop Continental flight for either direction.
Died. Howard E. Wurlitzer, 57, band instrument tycoon of Cincinnati, son of the late Rudolph Wurlitzer, who founded the Wurlitzer Co.; of influenza; in Manhattan.
Died. Robert Lansing, 64, Secretary of State under President Wilson: of heart disease; in Washington, D. C. (see p. 7).
Died. Richard Hudnut, 66, U. S. perfume tycoon, onetime Manhattan druggist; in Juan-les-Pins, France.
Died. Theodore Reinach, 68, famed French barrister, historian, archaeologist, Jewish leader, authority on comparative religion, Hellenic literature, brother of Salomon Reinach, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle; in Paris.
Died. Otto Marc Eidlitz, 68, president of Marc Eidlitz & Son, famed Manhattan building constructors (American Tel. & Tel., J. P. Morgan building, Yale's Harkness Quadrangle); of stomach disorder; in Manhattan. Mr. Eidlitz was the son of Founder Marc Eidlitz, who came to the U. S. from Bohemia in 1847, who built Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House.
Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres.
Died. The Rev. Francis James Finn, 70, able Catholic educator & author of boys' books, of Cincinnati. Father Finn's works include Claude Lightfoot, Ethelred Preston, That Football Game, Sunshine and Freckles.
Died. Walter Rockefeller Comfort, 70, for 25 years president of the famed Reid Ice Cream Co. of Manhattan, able Methodist layman; of pneumonia & paralysis; in Manhattan.
Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as part payment also.
Died. Cora Jane Flood, 73, daughter of the late famed James G. Flood, pioneer Californian; in San Francisco.
Died. George Nixon Black, 86, Boston capitalist & philanthropist, onetime largest individual taxpayer in the city; in Boston. Servants Gombi & Robrisch were willed $73,000.
Died. Richard Albert Howard, 97, of Sterling City, Tex., one of the three last veterans of the Mexican War; of heart disease; in Sterling City.
Died. Mrs. Mary A. Waterhouse, 103, of Scarboro, Me., who two months ago enjoyed an airplane flight over Scarboro and Old Orchard; in Scarboro.