Milestones: Aug. 3, 1925

Engaged. Wanda Hawley, 28, cinema actress, to one A. Stuart Wilkinson, General Manager of the Embassy Picture Corporation.

Married. Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, famed heiress, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, great-great-granddaughter of “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Frederic C. Church Jr. of Lowell, Mass., stock broker and onetime Harvard halfback. Though Miss Vanderbilt was brought up in the Catholic faith, they were married by Protestant clergymen. Her mother is a Catholic, her father an Episcopalian.

Married. Lady Alexandra Curzon, goddaughter of the Queen Mother Alexandra, youngest daughter of the late Marquis of Curzon and his late first wife, the former Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago, to Major E. D. Metcalf, equerry of Edward of Wales.

Married. Miss Esther F. Moody, missionary to China, grandniece of the late Dwight L. Moody,* and George W. Loos Jr., missionary to China; at

Sued for Separation. Hugh McQuillan, a right-handed pitcher for the New York National League Baseball Club, by Mrs. Nellie T. McQuillan; in Brooklyn. Said she: “Gay parties, women and intoxicants . . . brute . . . habitual drunkard . . . unfeeling sot . . . pleasure-bent, drunken carouser. . . .” (Pitcher McQuillan’s professional record has not been good this year. Up to July 28 he had won 2 games for his club, lost 3.)

Died. Mickey Shannon,* (real name Howard Palmer), 25, Chicago light heavyweight pugilist; from a fall in the ring during a boxing match in Louisville with Harry Fay.

Died. Antonio Ascari, Italian automobile racer, “champion of Europe”; in Linas, France, of injuries received in a crash at the Grand Prix Auto Race.

Died. W. B. Jemmett, British miniature-painter and dandy; attempting to save a woman from drowning, at Biarritz.

Died. Diki Diki, 49, famed dwarf, 37 inches tall, weight 25 pounds; in Manila, P. I. His widow, also 37 inches tall, weighs five pounds less than he.

Died. Parker A. Henderson, Mayor of Miami, Fla., in Miami, of apoplexy.

Died. Princess Wanda zu Shönaich-Carolath, 77, onetime mother-in-law of Princess Hermine, wife of Wilhelm Hohenzollern; in Amititz, Germany.

Died. William Jennings Bryan, 65, “the great Commoner,” thrice Presidential nominee of the Democratic party; in Dayton, Tenn., of apoplexy.

*Famed evangelist who founded the Northfield Seminary for Girls at Northfield, Mass., a boys’ academy at Mount Hermon, Mass., the Moody Bible Institute at Chicago, training schools for religious workers. *Illfated name. Another Mickey Shannon, heavyweight, a few years ago met the same fate in a boxing match in Pittsburgh, with the now middleweight champion Harry Greb.