Monday, Apr. 27, 1931
Married. His Excellency William Duncan Herridge, newly appointed Canadian Minister to the U. S.; and Mildred Bennett, sister of Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett of Canada; in Ottawa. Among the guests: the Earl of Bessborough, new Governor-General of Canada, and his Countess (their first official appearance); Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Prime Minister Bennett gave his sister away, presented her with $2,000,000.
Married. Alice Szechenyi, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Szechenyi who was Gladys, daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Count Bela Hadik, son of Count John Hadik, who, once Hungarian premier, is now a member of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament; in Washington, D. C.; by Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., who concluded the service by reading a cablegram from His Holiness Pope Pius XI blessing the couple "as a pledge of heavenly favor.''
Married. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Earl of Ypres; onetime fiancee of Henry Bradley Martin Jr. of Manhattan; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London.
Married. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 32, flyer, son of the one-time publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, grandson of the late John Wanamaker, onetime husband of Mrs. William Kissam (Rosamund Lancaster) Vanderbilt; and Mrs. Evelyn Hall Pierce, 27, divorced last week from H. Denny Pierce, Manhattan broker; in Chicago.
Married. Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll, 32, friend of Promoter Charles A. Levine; and a Count Henri de Porceri, 43 (Polish-born, U. S.-naturalized); in Paris.
Sued for Divorce. Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, longtime outfielder, later manager of the Detroit "Tigers" baseball team; by Mrs. Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb; in Augusta, Ga. Charge: "Cruel treatment." Said Mr. Cobb, in San Francisco: "I am surprised and shocked.
Left. By the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.: $1 14,850,733; to his wife, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance ($100,000, life interest in one-fourth the estate); his son John Thompson Jr. (life interest in onefourth); his four daughters, Ethel, Margaret, Charlotte, Mrs. Nathaniel Peter Hill (the remaining half) ; all to be held in trust until the majority of John Thompson Jr.
By the late Enoch Arnold Bennett, author: $500,000* to his separated French wife, Mrs. Marguerite Bennett, and to his friend Mrs. Doris Cheston-Bennett, and her daughter.
By the late Col. Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan libel lawyer: $1,215,318, to Cornell University of which he was a trustee and frequent benefactor (some $900.000), and to relatives and learned societies.
Died. John Prentice Schley, 12, son of Vice President Reeve Schley of Chase National Bank who is mayor of Far Hills, N. J.; by suffocation in a $100,000 fire which late at night destroyed the Schley home at Far Hills.
Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy.
Died. Joseph Leblang, 57, founder and proprietor of Joe Leblang's Central Agency for Amusements Inc. and Public Service Ticket Office Inc.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A Hungarian Jew, he was the first ticket broker to buy up blocks of seats, sell them at cut rates. Early this year he took over the distribution system planned by the League of New York Theatres with Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. to reduce ticket speculation. Through his agencies, his real estate deals, his backing of Broadway productions he accumulated some $20,000,000. Among many plays which he saved from failure: Rose Marie, Abie's Irish Rose, The Cat and the Canary.
Died. Howard W. Charles, 65, president of Charles & Co., grocers, after 50 years in the business founded by his father; at his home in Manhattan.
Died. Joseph Bodine Terbell, 68, board chairman of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., director of Guaranty Trust Co., American Sugar Refining Co., et al.; in Manhattan.
Died. Walter Robarts Addicks, 70, gas engineer, senior vice president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, onetime (1904-12) president of United Electric Light & Power Co., director of many a utility corporation; of pneumonia, on his 70th birthday; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Edward Robinson, 72, director since 1910 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, onetime (1885-1902) curator, later director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; after several months illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Francis Alonzo Hardy, 80, one-time president of Diamond Rubber Co., onetime board chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co., founder of F. A. Hardy & Co., Chicago optical company which merged with American Optical Co.; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. Snip, cream cairn terrier, favorite pet of King George V; after choking on a feather while stalking the Royal pigeons at Windsor Castle.
*Largest recorded literary estate. Others: Stanley Weyman, historical romancer ($497,000); Charles Dickens ($400,000); Anthony Trollope ($350,000).
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