Born. To Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash) and Paul Dubonnet (aperitif) distiller's scion, divorced husband of Christiane Coty, daughter of Publisher & Perfumer Francois Coty; a daughter (their first, her third child); in Cannes, France. She married successively John Stanley Kirwan of Manhattan, Capt. Winfield Sifton (by whom her eldest, now 18) son of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. British Army Capt. John Victor Nash, Egyptian Prince Mohammed Sabit Bey.

Engaged. William Hanson (Dinty) Moore 3rd, 29, onetime (1929-30) president of Maryland College for Women, now board chairman of Maryland College and the Woodbrook School for Boys; and Mabelle Symington of New York City, student at Maryland College.

Married. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, beauteous relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York morning Telegraph, onetime actress (Turn to the Right, Up in Mabel's Room); and Lieut.-Commander Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray Ament, introduced to her by Queen Marie of Rumania, honeymooned with him as the Queen's guest, divorced him last May for mental cruelty.

Married. Charles Breasted, 33, executive secretary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, son of famed Orientalist James Henry Breasted, director of the Institute; and Violet E. Timms. 24, of Harrow, Middlesex, England; in Manhattan.

Married. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), much-reported golf-partner of Mayor James John Walker; and Edward Duryea Dowling, 26, dialog director for Paramount-Publix Studio, Astoria, N. Y.; secretly, in Manhattan.

Married. Charles Farrell, 28, cinemactor: and Virginia McSweeney (Virginia Valli), 34, cinemactress; in Yonkers, N. Y.

Married. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, sculptor, painter, grandson of the late Mormon Brigham Young; and Dorothy Weir, painter, daughter of the late Portraitist Julian Alden Weir.

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Katharine Stone Hoyt, daughter of the late Galen L. Stone, founder of Hayden. Stone & Co., brokerage house; from Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, Hayden, Stone partner and sportsman.

Elected, Robert Le Roy (Believe It or Not) Ripley: to be a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; in London.

Died. Frank Collins Emerson, 48, Governor of Wyoming since 1927, when he defeated Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross; of pneumonia; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Michigan graduate, Elk & Mason, he achieved repute for Wyoming irrigation projects, and was Wyoming State Engineer.

Died, Louis Wolheim, 50, cinema and stage actor (The Hairy Ape, What Price Glory, The Racket, All Quiet On The Western Front); after an operation for appendicitis and stomach cancer; in Los Angeles. Last month he dieted, reduced his weight by 30 lb., hoping to play the role of the city editor in The Front Page (played by Osgood Perkins on the stage, assigned to Adolphe Menjou in the current production). Weakened by fasting, he failed to rally from his operation.

Died. George Warren Wilder, 65, retired president of Butterick Publishing Co.; in Manhattan. Stricken in mid-life with tuberculosis, he was later cured, founded The Linger Longer Lunger Club, a group of men who had also survived the disease.

Died. Dame Nellie Melba, 64, coloratura soprano; of an obscure skin disease; in Melbourne, Australia.

Died. Brigham Morris Young, 77, 37th son of the late Mormon Brigham Young, president of 58th, 140th and 152d Quorums of Seventy (foreign ministry) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, onetime restaurant and shop owner, attendant in Salt Lake Temple; after an operation; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Mrs. Mildred McLean Dewey, 80, relict of Admiral George Dewey, aunt of Publisher Edward Beale McLean; of pneumonia; in Washington. Her first husband, Brig.-General William B. Hazen, Civil War veteran, died in 1887, her second in 1917. Rich, she married impoverished Admiral Dewey in 1899, a year and a half after he had vanquished the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay.

Died. Sir Edward Richard Henry, So, onetime (1903-18) London Commissioner of Police, inventor of the system of classifying finger prints (dactyloscopia) now in use throughout the world by which, with 25,000,000 finger print cards on file in an acre of cabinets, he could in ten minutes identify a duplicate of any one of them;* in London.

Died, William Rush Merriam, 81, one-time (1889-92) Governor of Minnesota, onetime (1898-1903) Director of the U. S. Census; in Port Sewall, Fla.

*Not to be confused with the more complex system of Dr. Alphonse Bertillon, which, involving anthropometry (body measurements), also includes finger-printing.

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