--- description: Engaged. William Keighley, 45, cinema director (Green Pastures, The Adventures of Robin Hood); to Cinemactress Genevieve Tobin, 33, never before married; in Hollywood. Married. Edna June Cantor,... title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938 by [TIME](/author/time/) Sep 26, 1938 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Sep 26, 1938 5:00 AM CUT Engaged. William Keighley, 45, cinema director (Green Pastures, The Adventures of Robin Hood); to Cinemactress Genevieve Tobin, 33, never before married; in Hollywood. Married. Edna June Cantor, 19, third of Comedian Eddie Cantor’s five daughters, second to be married; and James Francis McHugh Jr., 23, son of Songwriter James (I Love to Whistle) McHugh; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Married. Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 35, onetime G-Man who directed the capture of Bandit John Dillinger, now practices law in San Francisco; and Mrs. Rosanne Willcox Taylor, 30; in Charlotte, N. C. Died. Pauline (“The Girl With the Topaz Eyes”) Frederick, 53, onetime stage & screen star (Joseph and His Brothers, Zaza, Resurrection), of asthma and heart disease, in Hollywood. Died. Robert Low Bacon, 54, socialite politician, for 16 years Republican Congressman from New York; of coronary thrombosis; after addressing a political meeting in Manhattan. Died. Willis Ray Gregg, 58, famed meteorologist, since 1934 chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau,\* which he entered 34 years ago; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. Died. Jean Longuet, 62, grandson of Karl Marx, friend and literary collaborator of Léon Blum, ardent pacifist, founder of the Socialist newspaper Le Populaire; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Paris. Died. Edward Dickinson Duffield, 67, president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, chairman of the board of trustees of Princeton University, onetime (1932-33) acting president of Princeton University, No. 1 alumnus; of heart disease; in South Orange, N. J. Died. John Stink (Ho-tah-moie), circa 75, famed Osage Indian recluse; in Pawhuska, Okla. One of the many legends about him: Down with smallpox about 50 years ago, he went into a coma, was thought dead, put out for the vultures. When he revived, his tribesmen treated him as a ghost, ostracized him. Died. Manuel Garcia Prieto, Marqués de Alhucemas, 78, onetime (1917-23) Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera’s 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: “If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body.” Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him “The Corpse.” \* For other weather news, see p. 48\. Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6779734/milestones-sep-26-1938/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6779734/milestones-sep-26-1938/"},"headline":"Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938","datePublished":"1938-09-26T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T15:23:03.092Z","description":"Engaged. William Keighley, 45, cinema director (Green Pastures, The Adventures of Robin Hood); to Cinemactress Genevieve Tobin, 33, never before married; in Hollywood. Married. Edna June Cantor,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6779734/milestones-sep-26-1938/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6779734/milestones-sep-26-1938/","name":"Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938"}}]}] ```