Milestones, Jan. 15, 1934

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Married. Doris Warner, 21, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of cinema's three Warner Bros.; and Mervyn Leroy, 33, Warner director (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang); elaborately, in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Father Warner's gift was a sound film of the wedding.

Married. Augusta Christian Glass Allen, younger daughter of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia; and Isaac Watlington Digges of Manhattan; in Washington.

Seeking Divorce. Thalia Fortescue Massie, 22, victim of Hawaii's most publicized rape & murder case; from Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., who was pardoned after serving one hour of his sentence for murdering one of his wife's attackers. Said she: "The divorce is being obtained at the insistence of Lieutenant Massie. I am personally reluctant to take such a step."

Resigning. Samuel Lionel ("Roxy")

Rothafel, famed impresario; as manager of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall; on Feb. 14. Reported reason: budget difficulties. Said Roxy: "I had a definite idealism and I couldn't go back on it."

Died. Cyrus Yawkey Woodson, 19, grandson and only male heir of Wisconsin's famed Lumberman-Financier Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey; by his own hand (pistol) ; in Wausau, Wis.

Died. Wilbur Underhill, 33, desperado, leader of the sensational Kansas penitentiary break last Memorial Day (TIME, June 12); of gunshot wounds inflicted by peace officers who cornered him last fortnight in Shawnee, Okla. (TIME, Jan. 8); in the Oklahoma penitentiary at McAlester.

Died. Wu Chao-chu (Dr. C. C. Wu),

47, Chinese statesman, in & out Foreign Minister of the Northern and Southern Governments, onetime (1929-31) Chinese Minister to the U. S.. son of the late great Statesman Wu Ting-fang; of a cerebral embolism; in Hongkong.

Died. Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, 53, British Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Akhnaton (famed liberal ruler and religion remodeler), novelist, biographer, member of the Tut-Ankh-Amen tomb-opening party in Luxor; after a long illness which his friends said was "mysterious"; in London. Revived were stories of the Pharaoh curse which the superstitious hold responsible for the deaths of 20 members of the Luxor party, and to which Weigall himself was supposed to have given some credence.

Died. Theodore Thaddeus Ellis, 66, textile man, vice president of The Chicago Daily News, printing equipment inventor and manufacturer; suddenly, of heart disease; in London.