Monday, Jan. 16, 1939
Engaged. Omero Cesere Catan, 24, Manhattan vacuum cleaner salesman, specialist in being first in line whenever a new bridge or tunnel is opened; to Jean Tobolka, 27, stenographer; in Manhattan; after getting the first Manhattan marriage license of 1939.
Married. Wayne Morris (real name: Bert De Wayne Morris Jr.), 24, cinemactor (Kid Galahad, Valley of the Giants, Brother Rat); and Leonore ("Bubbles") Schinasi, 18. step-daughter of a late millionaire Manhattan tobacco importer; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Married. Jack Doyle, 25, pugilist-singer ("The Irish Thrush"); and Movita (real name: Maria Castenada), 22, Mexican cinemactress (Rose of the Rio Grande); "somewhere in Mexico." Irish-born Pugilist Doyle, divorced last year by Cinemactress Judith Allen, was deported a few weeks ago for entering the U. S. without a health certificate.
Divorced. Constance Talmadge Netcher, 38, oldtime silent cinemactress; from her third husband, Townsend Netcher, wealthy Chicago socialite; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion.
Divorced. Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart Ross, 66, inventor of the Ross rifle and one of the largest landowners in the British Empire; from his second wife, U. S.-born Patricia Ellison; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grounds: desertion. The Ross divorce case has languished in British, U. S. and Mexican courts since 1924. In 1928 Lady Ross finally got a divorce in Edinburgh, only to have it canceled next year by the House of Lords.
Died. Klaus Martin Einstein, 6, grandson of Dr. Albert Einstein, son of 34-year-old Hans Albert Einstein, hydraulic engineer in the U. S. Soil Conservation Service; of diphtheria, in Greenville, S. C.
Died. Walter Costello Kelly, 65, famed vaudeville actor ("The Virginia Judge"), brother of Dramatist George Kelly and Philadelphia Democratic Boss John B. Kelly; of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile; in Philadelphia. A machinist by trade, "Judge" Kelly got his start when oldtime Tammany Leader "Big Tim" Sullivan mistook him for a prominent Virginia politician, asked him to a Bowery clubhouse's annual meeting. When called on to make a speech, he told stories he had heard in a Virginia court, brought down the house.
Declared Dead. Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed aviatrix, lost 18 months ago in the Pacific; by a California court order; in Los Angeles. Day later a plaque was unveiled to her memory at Miami, where she started her last, world-girdling flight.
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