Monday, Aug. 06, 1934
Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons.
Married. John North Willys, 60, automobile manufacturer, onetime (1930-32) U. S. Ambassador to Poland; and Mrs. Florence E. Dolan, 37, of Fieldston, N. Y.; in Miami, Fla. The marriage immediately followed a Miami divorce granted Mrs. Isabel Van Wie Willys, whom he married 37 years ago, on a charge of "extreme cruelty."
Sued for Divorce. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, "only ex-convict in Congress"; by Mrs. Lydia Schneider Shoemaker; in New London, Wis. Charges: "Cruel and inhuman treatment."
Divorced. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Minden, near Reno.
Birthdays. George Bernard Shaw, 78; Col. Edward Mandell House, 76; Henry Ford, 71; Don Marquis, 56; Benito Mussolini, 51; Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 33.
Died. Francois Coty (Joseph Marie Francois Spotuno), 60, perfumer ("Chypre," "L'Origan," "Rose de Jacqueminot" etc.), onetime newspaper publisher; of pneumonia; in Louveciennes, France. Like Napoleon, to whom he claimed distant kinship, he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated at $34,000,000, to his divorcing and suing wife, the onetime Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron, now publisher of Le Figaro. Stockholders gained control of his other newspapers. He owned a cordon of French chateaux including Madame Du Barry's "Luciennes."
Died. Marie Dressier (Leila Koerber), 64, cinemactress; of uremia complicated by cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy" in Anna Christie, stealing the show from Greta Garbo. A first-rate star for the second time in her life, she was voted the nation's most popular cinemactress, scored other hits in Tugboat Annie, Min and Bill, Dinner at Eight.
Died. Paul May, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S. since 1931; after an operation for a gall-bladder ailment; in Washington, D. C.
Died, Col. Webb Cook Hayes, 78, son of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes; of arteriosclerosis; in Marion, Ohio. He served in the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, fought on the Italian front during the World War.
Died. Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, 79, Marshal of France; of a liver ailment: in Thorey, France. Colonizing Indo-China with General Joseph Simon Gallieni taught him the proportions of tact and force to use when he was called upon in 1912 to quell revolts in France's Moroccan empire. He became Morocco's virtual dictator, was able to subdue insurrections, send Moroccan troops to the front during the World War. He foresaw the uprising of Abd-el-Krim in 1925, was unable to prevent it because of political opposition in Paris. In Paris he organized the Colonial Exposition of 1931, was revered as "Lyautey Africanus."
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