Monday, Aug. 30, 1926

Married. Natalie Hanna, to one Stanley Carr, Washington, D. C., broker; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

Miss Hanna, a daughter of Mrs. Stuart Hanna by a first marriage, was adopted by the late Dan Hanna, son of the late famed U. S. Senator Mark Hanna, after her mother's marriage to him. She thus inherited a share of Dan Hanna's fortune.

Married. Francis Dawson Gallatin, 55, Tammany Hall Sachem, president of the Manhattan Park Board, Commissioner of Parks, great-grandson of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, (1801-16) to Dorothy C. Brady, 23, a publicity agent.

Married. J. Brooks Atkinson, dramatic critic of the New York Times; to Mrs. Oriana Macllveen, in the Municipal Building, New York. Meanwhile Irving Torrey, the bride's father, performed his duties upstairs as clerk in the office of Borough President Miller.

Married. Russell G. Medcraft, 27, co-author with Norma Mitchell of The Cradle Snatchers; to Jean May (real name Jean Pfeiffer), one-time "leading lady" of The Poor Nut; at Port Chester, N. Y. Accompanied by showfolk, the couple left a Manhattan party at midnight, motored to Port Chester, were married by a coatless, collarless police judge at 4 a.m.

Married. Malcolm Ross McAdoo, 61, brother of William Gibbs McAdoo; to Mildred M. Traut of Portsmouth, Va.

Secretly Married. Guy R. Bolton, 41, noted playwright, writer, divorced husband of Marguerite ("California Nightingale") Namara; to Mary E. Radford of New York.

Lyric-writer Bolton, with P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern, co-wrote among other musical comedies: Very Good Eddie; Oh, Boy; Oh, Lady, Lady.

Died. Rudolph Valentino, 31; in the Polyclinic Hospital, Manhattan.

Died. Stuart Pratt Sherman, 45, literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune.

Died. Col. Henry Herman Harjes, president of Morgan, Harjes & Co., Parisian representative of J. P. Morgan & Co.; at Trouville, France.

Three years ago his eldest daughter was thrown from a polo pony, killed. Last week, while playing polo with Lord Mountbatten, Duke Peneranda and Lord Wodehouse, Col. Harjes fell from his pony, crushed his skull beneath flying hoofs. Died. Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave $500,000 to Sir James McGrigor in a futile effort to save his banking from failure, presumably because Sir James' father had paid the Baroness' father's passage to Canada when he set out to seek his fortune. Starting as a Hudson's Bay Co. (see p. 29) apprentice, Baron Strathcona at 94 was respected as one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was known as the "Grand Old Man"* of Canada. Lady Strathcona's son, Capt. Donald Howard, accedes to the baronetcy. Died. Henry Wade Rogers, 72, famed Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, onetime Dean of the Yale Law School, onetime President of Northwestern University; at Trenton, N. J. Jurist Rogers, aggressive, forced the "case system" on conservative Yale law-dons, as stumbling old "Kit" Langdell had done to Harvard 25 years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; at the Whitney estate, Wheatley Hills, Westbury, L. I. Aged, ill, Sculptor Ardisson clambered wearily up a 100 ft. water tower, leapt. In his pocket was a note, "Mrs. Whitney--you win. Tan-Tan, [his son], tout est atteint [all is accomplished]." Died. William H. Thompson, 75, president of the Thompson Time Stamp/- Co.; in Manhattan. Died. Charles William Eliot, 92; at Northeast Harbor, Maine.

*An epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. /-The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy.