Born. To Elizabeth Sturgis Grew Lyon, 22, youngest daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, and Cecil Burton Lyon. 31, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo: a daughter, their first child, Ambassador Crew’s third grandchild; in Tokyo. Name: Alice Emily.
Married, Nancy Traylor, 21, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor; and Nathan B. Swift, 23, of Chicago’s meat-packing Swifts; in Chicago.
Divorced. Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), onetime musicomedienne; by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, elder son of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury; in London. Grounds: Adultery. Corespondent: Peripatetic Nicholas Ullman (Douglas Fairbanks), cinemactor (TIME, Sept. 3), who was ordered to pay costs of $10,000 (estimated).
Divorce Denied. To Lady Vera Hodge, onetime Countess of Cathcart, heroine of the uproarious “moral turpitude” incident in 1926:* from Sir Rowland Hodge, 75, Tyneside shipping tycoon; in London. Lady Hodge’s charge: misconduct. Reason for denial: insufficient evidence.
Died. Elisabeth Reeve Morrow Morgan, 30, sister of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, eldest daughter of New Jersey’s late Senator-Diplomat Dwight Morrow; of pneumonia following an appendectomy; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. John Wanamaker Jr.. 45, sportsman, clubman, member of Pershing’s War-time staff, grandson of the late Store Founder John Wanamaker; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.
Died. Arthur R. Seyferlich, 64, Fire Commissioner of Chicago; of diabetic gangrene following a leg infection; in a Chicago hospital. Fortnight ago doctors told Seyferlich a leg amputation was necessary to save his life. Cried he: “A one-legged fireman is no fireman at all. I’ll die before you cut my leg off.” Fireman Seyferlich died with two legs.
Died. Rev. Dr. William Greenough Thayer, 70, longtime (1894-1930) headmaster of St. Mark’s School at Southborough, Mass.; in Boston.
Died. Philip Hale, 80. retired music critic of the Boston Herald; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. For 30 years his shrewd scholarly criticisms made him Boston’s oracle on music and the theatre. He wore bright Windsor ties, carried a big umbrella and a green felt bag. Last week’s Symphony audience stood to show its respect for wise Philip Hale.
*Her entry into the U. S. was delayed by immigration authorities because during a divorce action she had admitted intimacy with the Earl of Craven.
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