Married. Betty Hutton. 24, bouncing, bawling cinemactress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Incendiary Blonde}, just back from a European USO tour curtailed because of "an acute nervous breakdown" ; and Theodore Briskin, 27, Chicago camera (Revere) manufacturer; both for the first time; in the swank Camellia House of Chicago's Drake Hotel.

Married. Ralph Bellamy, 41, veteran stage (Tomorrow the World) and screen (Guest in the House) actor; and Ethel Smith, 32, thin, Tico-Tico-famed cinema electric organist (Bathing Beauty) ; he for the third time, she for the second; in Harrison, N.Y.

Divorced. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 30, movie scripter and third of the late humorist's four journalistic sons; by Sylvia Schulman Lardner, 32, David Selznick's onetime secretary; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, 54, sometime Manhattan real estate and theatrical promoter, now expatriate impresario of Giro's nightclub in Mexico City; by Peggy Fears Blumenthal, 38, dark-haired Ziegfeld Follies girl of the '20s who rose to theatrical producer (Music in the Air) with her husband's backing; after 18 years of marriage (no children), twelve of them loud with legal bickerings ; in Mexico City.

Died. Captain Harold A. Cunningham, 61, onetime master of the U.S. luxury liner Leviathan (nee Vaterland) and commodore of the United States Lines fleet, who waged a personal war with Manhattan harbor pilots by navigating his ship in and out of the harbor without a pilot rather than admit one not of his choosing to the bridge; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Frank Craven, 65. genial, beloved veteran playwright ( The First Year, That's Gratitude), director and actor, best known for his role as the drawling commentator in the stage & screen versions of Our Town; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. New York Times Critic Brooks Atkinson once pegged him as "the best pipe and pants-pocket actor in the business."

Died. Gwendolen Mary, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, 68, mother of England's hereditary premier peer, in her own right Baroness Herries of Scotland; at Kinharvie, her Scottish estate near Gretna Green. In 1930 she turned a profitable but unpopular trick by forcing her tenants to pay -L-20,000 in long-forgotten feudal fees which vassals once contributed to escape military service.

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