Monday, Oct. 10, 1938
Engaged. Lieut. Bruno Mussolini, 21. Italian Royal Air Force pilot, second son of Il Duce; and Gina Ruberti, 20-year-old daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome.
Married. Reginald Bryan Owen, 25, son of ex-Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde and her second husband. Major Reginald Owen; and Marie Louise Weber, 22-year-old architectural engineer; in Manhattan.
Married. Ronald Colman, 47, British cinemactor (Lost Horizon, If I Were King); and British Cinemactress Benita Hume, 31; both for the second time; near Santa Barbara, Calif.
Marriage Revealed. Margot Grahame, 27, British cinemactress who once advised young people to "plunge into matrimony''; and Allen McMartin, Canadian multimillionaire; near Montreal, a few days after her divorce last month from English Actor Francis Lister.
Seeking Divorce. Fannie Brice (real name: Fannie Borach), 46-year-old comedienne; from Billy Rose (real name: William Rosenberg), 37. diminutive producer of puffed-up shows; in Los Angeles. Charges: mental cruelty and desertion.
Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif.
Died. Conway Tearle, 60, oldtime cinemactor (Dancing Mothers, Altars of Desire), stage star (Dinner at Eight). onetime matinee idol who appeared with Ellen Terry and Ethel Barrymore; of heart disease; in Hollywood.
Died. General Alfred Krauss, 76, outstanding Austrian strategist during the World War; of a paralytic stroke: in Giesern, Germany. Because General Krauss repeatedly urged union between Austria and Germany, he was elected a member of the Reichstag last March, when anschhiss was finally effected.
Died. Marshal Alexander Averescu, 77, soldier-statesman, Rumania's World War generalissimo, three times (1918, 1920, 1926) its Prime Minister; in Bucharest.
Died. James William Sullivan, 90, printer, proofreader, editor, "Father of the Initiative and Referendum Movement" in the U.S., friend & adviser of Single Taxer Henry George and A.F. of L. President Samuel Gompers; of old age; in Carlisle, Pa.
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