Milestones: Mar. 24, 1924

Engaged. Avery Hopwood, 40, author of famed bedroom farces, to Miss Rosa Rolando, who danced last year in the Music Box Revue.

Engaged. Miss Glory Thomas, daughter of Augustus Thomas, “theatre tsar,” to William Elliott, Jr., of Manhattan.

Died. Dr. William Olin Stillman, 67, President of the American Humane Association, President of the International Federation of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, director general of the American Red Star Animal Relief, which is credited with having saved the lives of more than 1,000,000 animals during the War; in Albany.

Died. General Rafael Lopez Gutierrez, onetime President of Honduras and since Feb. 1 (when his presidential term expired) dictator of that country; of natural causes.

Died. General Richard Henry Pratt, 84, U. S. A., retired, founder and organizer of the Industrial School for Indians at Carlisle, Pa.; in San Francisco.

Died. Major John Mason Lee, 85, nephew of the late General Robert E. Lee; near Fredericksburg, Va.

Died. John T. Gibbons, 86, brother of the late Cardinal Gibbons, onetime Archbishop of Baltimore; in New Orleans.

Died. Baroness Matthilda Rothschild, 92, widow of Baron Wilhelm Karl Rothschild and “oldest member of the Rothschild family”; in Grunberg, Germany.