Engaged. John Gilbert, film actor; and Virginia Bruce, his leading lady in Downstairs (now in production). Cinemactor Gilbert may not wed until his divorce from his third wife, Ina Claire, becomes final Aug. 15.

Married. Joseph Schildkraut, 34, Austrian-born U. S. film actor; and Lilian Mary McKay, 22, of London; in Vienna. The bride said Actor Schildkraut proposed on a trip to Niagara Falls.

Divorced. William Randolph Hearst Jr., president of his father's New York American; by Alma Walker Hearst; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.

Died. Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co. (meat packing); killed instantly in a fall from a window of his apartment which he had apparently thrown open after breakfast; in Chicago. His waiting chauffeur witnessed the headlong plunge. Though his brother Charles Henry first announced that Packer Swift had been in poor health, had been planning an immediate European vacation, he later stated his brother "had been in his usual good health and spirits. . . . His affairs are in excellent condition." Packer Swift's son said: "Father was always insisting on fresh air." Second of the six able sons of the late Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co. (a meat peddler of Barnstable, Mass, who went West to enter Chicago's packing industry), Son Edward Foster grew up in his father's business as a shrewd cattle buyer, headed the worldwide organization after Elder Brother Louis Franklin retired last January. Unlike Armour & Co. (in which there are now no active Armours), Swift & Co. has had all the services of all the Swifts. Day before Chairman Swift's death, the company had halved its dividend to $1.*

Died. Admiral Franz von Hipper, 68, commander of the German scouting squadron in the Battle of Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow."/-

Died. Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury Curtis, second wife and second cousin of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; of heart disease; in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where her husband, 81, lay seriously ill. Born in Bangor, Me. she married first Lumberman Harrison M. Pillsbury, resided in Milwaukee until after his death in 1903. In 1910 she married Publisher Curtis whose first wife (the former Louise Knapp, the first editor of Publisher Curtis' Ladies' Home Journal) had died that year.

Died. John Alexander Steuart, 69, Scottish author (A Millionaire's Daughters; The Immortal Lover) after long illness; in Bootle, England. He was famed for dispelling an aroma of sanctity with his Robert Louis Stevenson, Man & Writer, a critical biography.

Died. Thomas Francis McNulty, 73, onetime Sheriff of Baltimore, composer of "The Old Gray Mare"; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. Called from the Government Printing Office to campaign for Mayor Ferdinand Latrobe of Baltimore, who always drove a decrepit grey mare, McNulty was credited with swinging the election with his song. He later campaigned for Stephen Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan.

Died. John Bach McMaster, 79, professor emeritus of American History at University of Pennsylvania; of heart disease aggravated by pneumonia; in Darien. Conn.

* Last year President Frank Edson White of Armour & Co. was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment. In 1927 Jonathan Ogden Armour died of heart disease brought on by his desperate efforts to salvage the Armour fortune.

/-Naval critics still argue about who won the Battle of Jutland, only major naval engagement of the War (May 31, 1916). Losses: Britain, 14 ships, 6,097 men; Germany, 11 ships, 2,545 men. After the battle the German high sea fleet remained bottled until the end of the War.

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