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Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Married. Sheila Cudahy, 23, only daughter of Chicago Packer Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (only son of the late founder); and Giorgio Pellegrini, 30, Italian-born accountant for the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago...
...Yukiang in China's northeastern Kiangsi province, Italian-born Father Humbert Verdini carried on his quiet missionary work, following in the footsteps of other Vincentians since the 18th Century, when the Paris-founded order first entered China...
...Italian-born, Salmaggi began in the U.S. as a singing teacher with the claim of having taught Italy's Queen Margherita how to play the mandolin. In 1915 he took his first plunge: a production of Pagliacci at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which he sang the part of Canio himself. As a tenor, he was a spectacular bust. But he took in $7,000 at the box office...