Monday, Dec. 09, 1940

Married. Jayne Smathers, 23, daughter of New Jersey's lank Senator William H. Smathers; and Albert Capatosta, 26, a radio program salesman; at Ventnor, N. J.

Married. Drayton Phillips, 24, second son of Ambassador to Italy William Phillips; and Evelyn Foster Gardiner, 24, Boston socialite; at Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Married. Peggy Scriven, jaunty, snub-nosed Yorkshirewoman who played on two of England's Wightman Cup tennis teams; and Frank Harvey Vivian, R. A. F. officer; in London.

Married. Ezio Pinza, 48, big, curly-haired Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, who used to be a six-day bicycle racer; and Doris Neal Leak, 22; at Larchmont, N. Y.

Marriage Revealed. Helga Marie Sandburg, 21, third daughter of Biographer-Poet Carl Sandburg; and Joseph Thoman, 18, of O'Fallon, Ill. They met at last year's Illinois State Fair, where both had entries in the goat breeders' exhibit, married Nov. 9 at Harbert, Mich.

Divorced. John Barrymore, 58, actor; by Elaine Barrie Barrymore, 25, actress; after six separations during their four-year marriage; because "Mr. Barrymore frequently stayed away from home"; in Los Angeles. "I am greatly relieved," said the Profile.

Died. Allan A. Ryan, 61, Wall Street operator who cornered Stutz Motor stock in 1920 (forcing the price from $70 to $724 a share), then lost even his Exchange seat; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Because he denounced his late, great father for taking a second wife twelve days after the death of his first, Financier Ryan was cut off with a set of pearl studs in the $135,000,000 will of Tobacco Baron Thomas Fortune Ryan.

Died. Remy Leclerc, 62, Paris' only bearded traffic cop, to whose post at the busy Porte Saint-Denis devout tourists for years repaired in order to touch his long whiskers for luck; in Paris. A noted painter of old Paris, he once held a one-man show at the Police Salon.

Died. Frank Tinney, 62, star of oldtime Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll revues, during the early '20s one of Broadway's three leading blackface comedians (the other two: Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor); in poverty, at Northport, L. I.

Died. Colonel George Brinton McClellan, 75 (son of Civil War General George B. McClellan, who lost the Seven Days' Battles), mayor of New York City from 1903 to 1909, lecturer on economics and public affairs at Princeton until his retirement in 1930; in Washington.

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