Monday, Feb. 09, 1931
Born. To Golfer & Mrs. Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; a daughter, their third child (others are Clara Malone, Robert Tyre III); in Atlanta. Name: Mary Eleanor.
Engaged. Prince Lennart, grandson of King Gustaf of Sweden, son of Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia (author of best-selling Education of a Princess, stylist in Bergdorf-Goodman Store in Manhattan, whose marriage to Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was annulled in 1914); and Karin Nissvandt, daughter of a Stockholm businessman. King Gustaf was compelled by tradition to issue a communique disapproving the match. Prince Lennart renounced his title, becoming Lennart Wilhelmsson, planned to marry quietly abroad, later to receive royal "silent approval."
Married. John Hope Doeg, U. S. singles tennis champion, nephew of Mrs. May Sutton Bundy (oldtime tennis star); and Dorothea Scudder, Newark Junior Leaguer, granddaughter of Publisher Wallace McIlvaine Scudder of the Newark Evening News; in Newark, N. J. Best man: George Martin Lott Jr., Doeg's doubles championship partner in 1929 and 1930.
Married. Wally Toscanini. daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra; and Count Castelbarco Albani, scion of ancient family whose title was created in 1192; in Milan, whither Conductor Toscanini sped from Manhattan.
Eloped. Margaret, socialite daughter of President Samuel H. Halle of Halle Bros., Cleveland department store; and Francis M. Sherwin, young Yale graduate, son of Banker John Sherwin of Cleveland. Without telling their parents, they went to Grace Church, Cleveland, were married.
Separated. Paul Whiteman, orchestra leader; and Mrs. Vanda Hoff Whiteman, dancer, his third wife (previous wives were Nellie Stack, "Jimmie" Smith). Said Jazzman Whiteman: "This hellish life of being on the road playing one-night stands is to blame." Settlement to Mrs. Whiteman: $35,000 a year.
Bringing Suit. William Nelson Morris, wealthy Chicagoan, husband of Actress Jeanne Aubert (Princess Charming); against Franco-Film Co.; for showing Actress Aubert in a costume which he claimed was offensive to "conjugal decency." Amount asked: 400,000 francs ($15,600). Last spring Husband Morris won a $2,000 suit from the Palace Music Hall in Paris when his wife sang there without his consent.
Elected. Louis Shattuck Gates, president of Phelps Dodge Corp. (copper mines); to be president of the Mining & Metallurgical Society of America; succeeding G. Temple Bridgman.
Elected. Charles Lanier Lawrance, former president of Wright Aeronautical Corp., designer of the Wright Whirlwind engine: to be president of Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc. He succeeds Frederick Brant Rentschler, president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.
Died. Donald MacDonald, 42, general manager of the Country Life Press which prints Doubleday-Doran books; of peritonitis after an appendectomy; in Mineola, L. I.
Died. Mrs. Lucie Oelrichs Jay, 75, Manhattan socialite, relict of the late Col. William Jay (Civil War veteran, lawyer), daughter of the late Henry Oelrichs, general director of North German Lloyd Steamship Co. in the U. S.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Famed for her Wartime anti-German activities, she campaigned against Conductor Karl Muck, founded the New York City Anti-German Music League and Mrs. William Jay's Committee for the Severance of All Social & Professional Relations With Enemy Sympathizers.
Died. Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, 77, relict of the late Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, grandmother of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; of heart disease; in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the founder with her husband of Cincinnati's Institute of Fine Arts, patroness of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Died. Archibald Bannatyne, 78, retired official of Waterbury Clock Co., Bannatyne Watch Co. and Ansonia Clock Co., inventor of the first $1 watch (the "Jumbo" which he sold to Robert H. Ingersoll & Brother); in Naugatuck, Conn.
Died. Jules Tumour, 80, oldtime Spanish-born circus clown (Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey); in Valley Stream, L. I. His favorite story: while trouping in Iowa he learned that the son of the man who rented the circus its lot was ill; he went to the house, clowned before the window of young Herbert Hoover.
Died. George Chandler Holt, 87, one-time (1903-1914) U. S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York, father of Vice President Henry Chandler Holt of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., and of President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.; in Nice, France.
Died. Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler. 88, Bishop since 1891 of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church; of bronchial pneumonia; in Winston-Salem, N. C. For 52 years he conducted the annual Easter sunrise service of the Moravian Church, which with its band music and procession to the cemetery attracts thousands of visitors to Winston-Salem.
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