Monday, Jun. 15, 1931
Born. To Roy Edward Larsen, vice president of TIME, and to Mrs. Margaret Zerbe Larsen; a son, Robert Roy; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib.
Engaged. Eleanor Allen Lamont, Smith College junior, daughter of Morgan-Partner Thomas William Lamont; and Charles Crehore Cunningham, Harvard junior, captain of next year's Harvard hockey team.
Engaged. Josephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young, Bryn Mawr graduate, employee in National Broadcasting Co.'s educational department; and Everett Needham Case, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., confidential secretary to Owen D. Young, secretary of Princeton's Class of 1922, son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank.
Engaged. Elizabeth Parker Case, sister of Everett Needham Case (see above), member of this year's Vassar graduating class; and Hamilton Robinson, law student at Queen's College, Oxford, son of Medieval History Professor Chalfant Robinson of Princeton University.
Engaged. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of Sir Joseph Duveen, London and Manhattan art dealer; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, son of Sir William Garthwaite, British ship owner and banker; in London.*
Married. Natica de Acosta, Manhattan socialite, actress of "bits" on Broadway (One, Two, Three!): and George Trowbridge Elliman, employe of Doubleday, Doran Co., son of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Ludlow Elliman; in Manhattan.
Married. Jane Lee, daughter of new President Thomas George Lee of Armour & Co. (meat packing); and William Edward Graham, son of famed Architect Ernest Robert Graham (Flatiron Bldg., New York; New Civic Opera House, Chicago); in Chicago.
Married. Isaac Frederick Marcosson, famed interviewer for the Satevepost; and Mrs. Frances Barberey; in Wyncote, Pa.
Married. Madeleine B. McCarter, daughter of President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corporation of New Jersey; and Carlos Dexter Kelly, Manhattan stockbroker; in Rumson, N. J.
Married. William Hanson Moore 3d, 29, board chairman of Maryland College and Woodbrook School for boys; and Mabelle Symington of Long Island City, N. Y.; in Astoria, N. Y.
Married. F. Ogden Nash, light versifier (Hard Lines)* and Frances Rider Leonard, Baltimore Junior Leaguer; in Baltimore, Md.
Seeking Divorce. Nancy Carroll (Ann Veronica La Hiff), cinemactress (Abie's Irish Rose); from John M. Kirkland, playwright whose Frankie and Johnnie was closed by Manhattan police last autumn; in Nogales, Mexico. Grounds: incompatibility. Said Cinemactress Carroll: "It was like cutting off our baby's curls and watching her grow up. But romance and big business simply will not mix--for long." Later it was reported she was to marry Bolton Mallory, editor-in-chief of Life.
Died. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott, 50, grandson of Jordan Lawrence Mott who founded J. L. Mott Iron Works and became Acting Mayor of New York City in 1879; at Steamboat Station, near Roseburg, Ore. Young "millionaire reporter" in 1910 for a succession of Manhattan newspapers, he found journalism "far too dull," ran off to China with an actress, Mrs. Frances Hewitt Bowne. spent the rest of his days boating and writing novels of outdoor life (Prairie, Sea and Snow, etc.).
Died. Levi Lingo Rue, 70, famed retired board chairman of Philadelphia bank; of heart disease; in Philadelphia.
Died. Solon Irving Bailey, 76, retired director of the Harvard observatory; in Hanover, Mass.
Died. Hussein ibn Ali, 76, onetime King of Hedjaz and Grand Sheriff/- of Mecca, father of King Feisal of Iraq; father of Emir Abdullah of Transjordania; father of King Ali who succeeded him for a short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned by Ibn Saud and exiled in 1924.
Died. Asa Shove Wing, 81, president since 1906 of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co.; after a long illness; in his summer home at Sandwich, Mass.
*Last week Sir Joseph was reported to have commissioned Manhattan Architect John Russell Pope to design the $250,000 wing he is giving to London's famed Tate Gallery to house sculptures and watercolors.
*What shall I do with so and so? She won't say yes and she won't say no.
/-A descendant of the Prophet and local gov ernor of Mecca.
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