Engaged. Writer Quentin Reynolds, 39, war correspondent; and Cinemactress Virginia Pine, 26, ex-wife of William Waibel, Northwestern University athlete, and of Edward L. Lehmann Jr., Chicago department-store man; in Manhattan.

Married. Swingster Benny Goodman, 32; and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 36, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, niece of ex-Ambassador to Spain Ogden Hammond; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. She divorced Londoner George Arthur Victor Duckworth in January.

Died. Sidney R. Kent, 56, super-salesman of the cinema industry, president of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A onetime laborer and surveyor, he offered to work free for Famous Players-Lasky on a trial basis, within ten years was general manager. In 1932 he was called to take charge of tottering Fox Films, three years later was made president of the newly formed 20th Century-Fox at some $200,000 a year. In defense of the industry's high salaries, he once submitted: "It may be more money than bank presidents are paid, but bank presidents can't make moving pictures."

Died. Jacques Bustanoby, 62, famed pre-World War I restaurateur (Cafe de la Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, Andre and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo.

Died. Marcelo de Alvear, 73, onetime (1922-28) President of Argentina; in Buenos Aires. A revolutionary in the '90s, he became leader of the Radical Party, was Ambassador to France in 1917-22.

Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife.

Died. Philip Wilson Steer, 81, British landscape and portrait painter; in London. A prominent figure in turn-of-the-century art circles in London, he was the first living painter to be given a one-man show in the famed Tate Gallery.

Died. Edward Waterman Townsend, 87, author of the "Chimmie Fadden" stories about the Bowery of the '90s; in Manhattan. Written as newspaper features, the stories sold 200,000 copies in book form, and Townsend got elected to two terms in Congress from New Jersey.

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