Milestones, Jun. 25, 1934
Married. Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Boston Socialite Philip Stockton; and Charles Francis Adams Jr.. 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy; in Beverly, Mass.
Marriage Revealed. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 40, poetess, wit; and Alan Campbell, 26, actor; in Westbury, L. I.; in October. Seeking Divorce. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Reno (see p. 9). Seeking Divorce. Charlotte Charlton Leonard; from University of Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg.
Died. William Andrews Clark, 57, philanthropist, founder (1919) of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, son of Montana's late copper-mining Senator Clark; of heart disease; in Salmon Lake, Mont.
Died. Joseph Harold ("Hal") Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME, May 28).
Died. Thomas Barrett Jr.. 40, Mayor of Augusta. Ga., who, ill since last July, conducted city business from his home; from the effects of a gas attack in Belleau Wood; in Augusta.
Died. Thomas L. (Tom) Masson, 68, humorist, editor (1893-1922) of Life, associate editor of Saturday Evening Post (1922-30); after a long illness; in Glen Ridge, N. J.
Died. Gudbrand J. Lomen, 80. Mayor (1917-19) of Nome, Alaska, federal judge (1921-32) of the Second Judicial Division of Alaska, father of five sons who on his advice founded Lomen Reindeer Corp.; of paralysis; in Seattle.
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