Milestones: Apr. 30, 1928

Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. They plan to marry in London in the middle of May, to honeymoon in an automobile. Novelist Lewis was recently divorced from his first wife. Miss Thompson divorced her first husband last summer.

Engaged. Corliss Lamont, graduate student at Columbia University, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, of Manhattan; to Miss Margaret Hayes Irish, of Troy, N. Y.

Engaged. E. Witherbee Black, son of Witherbee Black, of Southport, Conn., president of Black Starr & Frost (jewelry, trophies); to Miss Ruth Dean Montgomery of Manhattan.

Engaged. Henry Belin du Pont, assistant treasurer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (celluloid, gunpowder, paints, rubber goods), of Wilmington, Del.; to Miss Margaret Wilson Lewis, of San Antonio, Texas.

Engaged. Zenas Crane Colt, son of Samuel Colt of Pittsfield, Mass., and great nephew of the late U. S. Senator W. Murray Crane; to Miss Cynthia Means, of Brookline, Mass.

Married. Miss Jean Conover Norwood, daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Norwood, famed Manhattan pastor; to Malcolm Campbell McMaster, son of Rev. Edward A. McMaster, Williamstown pastor; in Manhattan; by their fathers.

Married. Prince Otto von Bismarck, 31, grandson of the Iron Chancellor of Germany, First Secretary to the German Legation in Stockholm; to Miss Anna Marie Tengbom, daughter of a Stockholm architect; at Berlin Cathedral. President von Hindenburg, Foreign Minister Streseman, Ministers Keudell, Schiele, Kock and many another notable attended.

Married. Richard Barthelmess, famed cinemactor (The Patent Leather Kid, Broken Blossoms, The Bright Shawl) and onetime husband of Dancer Mary Hay: to Mrs. Jessie Haynes Sargeant, 27, of New York; at Reno, Nev.

Sued for Divorce. Harry Langdon, famed baby-face cinecomedian (Long Pants, The Chaser, etc.), by Mrs. Frances Langdon of Los Angeles. They have been married twenty-four years.

Divorced. Paul Poiret. dressmaker, of Paris; and his wife, Denise Louise Poiret, once his "inspiration," of whom he said "I make for my wife the gowns and hats that express my creed;" at Paris. M. Poiret charged that his wife's attitude was injurious; Mme. Poiret countercharged, that her husband was cruel.

Elected. Elmer T. McCleary, expert steelmaking vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.; to be president of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.; to succeed Thomas J. Bray, resigned.

Elected. Leon R. German, general manager of the Peerless Motor Car Corp.; to be president of the corporation; succeeding Edward Ver Linden.

Elected. Charles F. Meyer, 64, of Katonah, N. Y.; to be president of the Standard Oil Co. of New York. (See p. 26.)

Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly.

Died. Jacob Franks, onetime pawnbroker, millionaire, father of Bobby Franks, who was kidnaped and killed in 1924 by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, sons of friends of Mr. Franks; of grief; in Chicago.