Born. To Marilyn Maxwell, 34, blond cinemactress (Forever Darling), and Jerry Davis, 39, screenwriter: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Matthew Paul. Weight: 7 Ibs. 5 oz.

Marriage Revealed. Audrey Bruce, 22, heiress to the Mellon millions, one of three grandchildren of the late U.S. Treasury Secretary (1921-32) Andrew Mellon; and Stephen Currier, 25, consultant to Boston's Swetzoff Gallery; on November 15, in Fairfield, Conn.

Died. Charles Muggeridge, 20, son of Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of Britain's famed humor magazine Punch; after he was hurled 300 yds. down a rocky face of Peak Brevent by an avalanche while on a skiing trip; near Chamonix, France.

Died. Edward Arnold (real name: Guenther Schneider), 66, topnotch character actor of stage (Whistling in the Dark), screen (Diamond Jim Brady, All That Money Can Buy), .radio and TV, author (Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Encino, Calif. Arnold was orphaned at eleven, played his first role (Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice) in the old East Side Settlement House. His substantial figure, resonant voice and booming laugh made him the best-known tycoon type in movies for some 25 years.

Died. Ludwig Freude, 66, German-born batman for Hitler in Argentina; in Buenos Aires. Juan Peron intervened to save Freude when Great Britain and the U.S. demanded that Freude (Argentina's No. 1 Nazi, according to the U.S. Government's World War II Blue Book) be turned over to the Allies.

Died. Frederick B. Rentschler, 68, chairman of the board and co-founder of the United Aircraft Corp.; in Boca Raton, Fla. (see BUSINESS).

Died. B. A. (for Benjamin Albert) Rolfe, 76, jovial maestro (1928-31) of radio's original Lucky Strike dance orchestra; of cancer; in Mansfield, Mass.

Died. Henry Stephenson, 82, distinguished British West Indies-born actor of stage (Cynara) and Hollywood (Mutiny on the Bounty); in San Francisco.

Died. Sir Robert Ho Tung, 93, Hong Kong financier and philanthropist, father of Lieut. General Ho Shai Lai, chief of the Nationalist Chinese military delegation at the U.N.; in Hong Kong. Born 21 years after Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, Sir Robert joined Jardine, Matheson & Co., soon became its leading comprador (liaison between foreign companies and Chinese merchants), made a million by the time he was 34. Knighted by George V in 1915, he was one of the three famed "Hong Kong knights.''

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