Monday, Jun. 15, 1936
Born. To George Isaac Hughes, 96, Confederate veteran accepted by the American Medical Association as an authentic father (TIME, Nov. 11); and Libby Hill Hughes, 28; a daughter, Mary Gertrude; in New Bern, N. C. Their other child is Franklin Roosevelt Hughes, aged 17 months.
Married. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, general managing director of potent Royal Dutch-Shell, divorced last month by Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov, Lady Deterding, on grounds of misconduct: and Charlotte Mina Knack, 38; in Amsterdam.
Married. Alix Ghelaine Loree, daughter of Manhattan Banker Robert Fresnel Loree (Guaranty Trust), granddaughter of President Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson R. R.; and Robert Keene Tubman of Baltimore, Md.; in West Orange, N. J.
Married. Nicholas Roosevelt, 43, one-time (1930-33) U. S. Minister to Hungary, editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune, first cousin of Theodore Roosevelt; and Tirzah Maris Gates, daughter of the late California State Senator Egbert James Gates; in Pasadena, Calif.
Marriage Revealed. Abigail Beveridge, 24, daughter of Indiana's late, great Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge;.and Franz Baum, 44, her German art teacher; in Munich, last November.
Marriage Revealed. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, 25, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, onetime wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels) and of Brandon Smith (real estate) of Charlotte, N. C.; and Lindsay Plumly, 26, nephew of onetime President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) ; at Belair, Md., in May.
Divorced. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard, 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty.
Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood.
Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.
Died. Clara Button Noyes, 66, since 1916 director of the Department of Nursing Service of the American Red Cross; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Arthur Amos Noyes, 69, chemist of California Institute of Technology, developer of the ionic theory, onetime (1927) President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. Hadji Mohammed Jamalul Kiram II, onetime Sultan of Sulu, inspiration of George Ade's celebrated 1902 musical comedy of the same name, since his abdication in 1915 spiritual head of the Mohammedans of the Sulu Archipelago; on the Island of Jolo, P. I.
Died. Julia Field, 80, relict of Poet Eugene Field; of heart attack; in her Heafford Junction, Wis. home which two weeks ago was threatened by mortgage foreclosure, saved when Field's college fraternity raised $3,000 (TIME, June 1).
Died. Frangois Marcel Grateau, 84, French coiffeur who in 1872 invented the hair-waving process that bears his name (Marcel); of old age; at the Chateau du Theil, near Bernay, France. Famed overnight when he waved the hair of a celebrated actress with curling tongs reversed, he exploited his popularity, amassed a large fortune, retired to a 500-acre country estate.
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