Monday, Dec. 25, 1950

Born. To Ezio Pinza, 58, matinee-idol basso of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway (South Pacific), and Hollywood, and second wife Doris Leak Pinza, 32, ex-dancer: their third child (his fourth), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gloria. Weight: 9 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. Colleen Townsend, 21, who gave up a promising movie career for the church; and Theological Student Louis H. Evans Jr., 24; in Hollywood.

Married. Shirley Temple, 22, cinemoppet star of the '30s; and Charles Black, 31, California TV official, son of a public-utility mogul; she for the second time; in Del Monte, Calif.

Married. Ruth Roman, 26, cinema siren (Champion); and Mortimer Hall, 26, who works for Los Angeles' radio station KLAC, owned by his mother, New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Faye Emerson, 33, bosomy actress of cinema (Guilty Bystander) and TV (The Faye Emerson Show) ; and Lyle Cedric ("Skitch") Henderson, 32, British-born pianist, bandmaster, disc jockey; she for the third time (No. 2: Elliott Roosevelt), he for the first; in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Died. Max Reiter, 45, Jewish refugee, from Italian Fascism, who in 1938 left a successful career as conductor on the Continent (Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan), came to the U.S. with only $40, within five years shaped the San Antonio Symphony into a major orchestra; of a heart attack; in San Antonio.

Died. Peter Fraser, 66, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1940 to 1949, one of the leaders in taking New Zealand to socialism over the past 15 years; of a heart attack; in Wellington, New Zealand. Born a cobbler's son in Scotland, Fraser went to New Zealand at 26, rose from labor unionizing to Parliament to the cabinet. Dourly witty Teetotaler Fraser was admired even by his political enemies for bossing relief during the 1918 influenza plague, once selling his own furniture to aid the needy during the Depression, working for the welfare of New Zealand's Maoris. Last year, after a decade of mounting public resentment against government restrictions, a solid majority of voters ousted both Fraser and socialism.

Died. Agnes Repplier, 95, leading U.S. woman essayist; in Philadelphia. A cat-loving, chain-smoking spinster, she began writing at 30. To U.S. readers, who never put much store by the polite, personal essay, she managed to convey the impression that she was from another country. But she acquired an audience that remained fond of her well-bred talent for taking graceful potshots at varied targets.

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