Monday, Oct. 31, 1938

Married. Gregory Mangin, 31, four times (1932, 1933, 1935, 1936) U. S. indoor amateur singles tennis champion; and Clayton Sayre Sullivan, 20-year-old Charlotte socialite; in Charlotte, N. C.

Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif.

Died. Sylva Eugenie Davis, 20, courageous paralytic, in her sleep; in Kansas City. Suffering from spastic paralysis (the nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing muscular rigidity), she decided last winter to take the 50-50 chance of a surgical operation which might help her, might kill her (TIME, March 21).

Died. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, beauteous widow of the late Muralist Gardner Hale, socialite actress who was recently rumored engaged to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins; after a 16-floor plunge from her apartment; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry Bentley, 58, Cincinnati lawyer who first established the proportional representation system in U. S. city government, was chiefly responsible for the city's change from machine to non-partisan government; in Cincinnati.

Died. Seiji Noma, 59, Japanese magazine tycoon, publisher of the daily Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper'') and nine magazines with a combined circulation of over 10,000,000, author of numerous tracts and autobiographical sketches (Secrets of Success in Life, Talks on Mental Training, Noma of Japan); of heart disease; in Tokyo.

Died. Harry Arista Mackey, 65, one-time (1928-31) mayor of Philadelphia; as the result of an automobile accident; in Philadelphia. While he was mayor he sometimes disguised himself in tatters and false whiskers to wander at night among the city's poor and jobless.

Died. May Irwin (Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt), 76, famed oldtime comedienne, the toast of Broadway in the early 1900s; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. Her only cinema appearance (the 50-foot May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, which Thomas A. Edison made) shocked the '90s. Some of the famed songs she introduced: Hear Dem Bells, After the Ball Is Over.

Died. Joseph Don Carlos Young, 83, last of Brigham Young's 25 sons; of old age; in Salt Lake City. Of the late Mormon leader's 56 children, born to him by 16 wives, only four daughters (aged 68, 75, 77, 78) survive.

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