Monday, Feb. 02, 1948
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 36, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 41, Australian-born Hollywood writerdirector: their fifth child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Prudence Anne. Weight: 9 Ibs.
Born. To James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 42, Tarheel bandleader, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 28, ex-Powers model, Kyser vocalist: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Carroll Amanda. Weight: 7 Ibs. 12 oz.
Married. Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 32, squealy Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); and Elizabeth Darrah Waters, 20, stately blonde ex-model; he for the second time (his first was Washington Times-Herald Chitchatterer Austine "Bootsie" McDonnell), she for the first; in Sea Cliff, L.I.
Married. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 53, jut-jawed, Red-chasing propagandist; and Jeremiah Stokes, 70, Mormon elder; each for the second time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco.
Divorced. Tyrone Power, 34, cinemactor, ex-member of the Lana Turner set; by Annabella (real name: Ann Carpentier), 35, French-born cinemactress; after almost nine years of marriage, 17 months of separation, no children; in Los Angeles.
Died. Ernst Emil Herzfeld, 68, German-born archeologist famed for his triumphs among the ruins of Persepolis; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland. Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery.
Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses.
Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory in 1898.
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