Engaged. Alfredo Codona, trapeze per, former, widower of Lillian Leitzel, famed. trapezist who died last year (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931); and Vera Bruce, a member of his troupe; in St. Louis, Mp.

Married. Primrose Whitfield, 19, debutante niece of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie; and one William C. T. Gaynor, 21, Columbia medical student; in Manhattan.

Married. Frederick George Moore Perceval, nth Earl of Egmont, 18, Canadian rancher; and one Ann Geraldine Moodie of Calgary; in Calgary, Alberta.

Married. Meade Minnigerode, 45, author (The Fabulous Forties, Some American Ladies, Certain Rich Men, Presidential Years'); and Mrs. Mildred Bright Mailliard, 34, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan,

Separated. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooner, orchestra leader; and Fay Webb Vallee, daughter of Santa Monica's police chief. Reason: incompatibility.

Divorced. Darwin Pearl Kingsley Jr., son of the board chairman of New York Life Insurance Co. who last week lay ill; by Heywood Mason Butler Kingsley; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: cruelty.

Died. Paul Bern, 42, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive, husband of Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), film actress; by his own hand (shooting); in Hollywood.

Died. James Patrick Silo, 44, Manhattan art dealer and auctioneer; of a heart attack; aboard S. S. Fort St. George, near St. John's, Newfoundland.

Died. Col. Cushman Albert Rice, 54, soldier of fortune, big game hunter, original of the hero of Novelist Richard Harding Davis' Captain Macklin; of heart disease; at Green Lake, Wis.

Died. Jerome A. Colvin, 59, horse & mule dealer, brother-in-law of Vice President Charles Curtis; of indigestion; in Topeka, Kan.

Died. Mostofi el Mamalek, thrice Premier of Persia; in Teheran, Persia. He was the only Persian given the title of Agha (Dignity or Lord) by the Shahs.

Died. John Sylvester Fearis, 65, composer ("Beautiful Isle of Somewhere"); of a heart attack; in Lake Geneva, Wis.

Died. Arthur George Wells, 70, vice president in charge of operation for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.; of pneumonia; in Chicago.

Died. Vittorio Domizio Torrigiani, 70, onetime Grand Master of Italian Freemasonry; of a lingering illness; in Tuscany, Italy. When Premier Mussolini abolished Freemasonry in 1925, Torrigiani was convicted of political interference, sentenced in 1927 to five years' imprisonment on the Lipari Islands. Though he was regarded as Mussolini's greatest enemy, II Duce permitted his return two years later, partly because of Torrigiani's infirmities.

Died. Edgar James Swift, 72, psychologist, author (Mind in the Making,* The Psychology of Childhood); in Hollis, Maine.

Died. Dr. John George Gehring, 75, neurologist, psychiatrist; of a heart attack; in Bethel, Maine. Many a prominent U. S. businessman, lawyer and physician has consulted Dr. Gehring, taken treatment at his home in the Androscoggin Valley. Setting them to dig potatoes and swim, he relieved their nervous tension. Dr. Gehring and his "inn" were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master of the Inn.

Died. James Wood Johnson, 76, philanthropist, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson (surgical supplies); on the S. S. Majestic, en route to New York.

Died. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Sr., 82, longtime (1880-1916) partner of Bennett, Sloan & Co., tea and coffee importers, father of President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp.; of old age; in Plandome, L. I.

Died. Dr. Arthur Henderson Smith, 87, missionary, author (China in Convulsion; Chinese Characteristics); in Claremont, Calif. Dr. Smith is credited with having convinced Theodore Roosevelt that a large part of the indemnity for the Boxer Rebellion should be returned to China for the education of Chinese students in the U. S.

Died. Electa Matilda Curtis Ziegler, 91, philanthropist, widow of the late William Ziegler, founder-president of Royal Baking Powder Co., foster mother of President William Ziegler Jr. of Great Island Corp.; of old age; in Manhattan.

*Published 1908. Not to be confused with Mind in the Making (1921) by James Harvey Robinson.

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