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PEOPLE: Engagement Party There’ were. xo many wewspapetmen inilling around: the lobby of the apart- inent house on New York’s East Side that the superintendetit said they were a fire hazard, and the tenants grumbled about calling the police, The reporters wanted to see the woman in apartment. 4E, but she didn't want to see them, She didn’t feel like it, and besides, she hadn't yet made: up her face. So far us she was concerned, they could just keep inilling, while slic lounged around watching a. repairman tinker with her sir conditioning. Which is precisely what they: did, until the repairman came downstairs, Then they mobbed him: Did she say unything? Was it true? Was she going to marry him? . triumphantly, the repairman replied: “She said to ine: Sure I'm going to he . Married.’ She was wearing form-fitting beige toreador pants.” In that haphazard way, the world learned last week of the engagement of Mis toe, “an molion-picture actress of parts (“How to Marry a Mil- lionaire”)}, to Arthur Miller, a playwright of parts ("Death of a Salesman”). The engagement, already had been reported 21 | News.veeX qhise iy RMT RON AL AP PAIRS at length by the Broadway and Holly- wood columnists. And it already had been confirmed by Miller in Washing: ton, where he was appearing before the House Committee on Un-American Ac- tivities. Sinee it was the biggest tabloid stary of the week, however, it took SIM. herself te make it official. Piane: When Miss Monroe, who previously had, been mmurried ta Jim Dougherty, a West Coast policeman, and foe DiMaggio, the. ex-Yankee slugger. finally talked to the reporters herself. she said the wedding would take place sometime befare July ¥3, when she hac to leave for England to begin a movie with Sir Latwente Olivier. What about her wedding gows? “Any kind." she murmured. “] think Asmoginped Breas The repairavan said: ‘They'll wed’ Vdllike it to he simple... something that looks like a wedding dress.” Whe had done the proposing? “T guess: he sort of initiated it, she sud. “Le was sart-of simultanceus,” Avid, finally, what about, j ony in Washington that ii he once was affilinted with a host of Communist fronts though he never vexss under Commanist diseipline# “E don't know much abort politics. 1! lace to havea. talk with him and Pf ¢hink he'svens tined. He's had quite a day.” Politics might play a role in the hones: MOR ainavas. At the week end there were Miners ft Washington that Miller tnicht he cited fer content for refusal fa name his associates in MMs pro- Communiist days. and he stil hadNe get wopusspart. His Lust applisition, in B54, was denied, but he said he. is now pre- pared to sign the State Departmént’s non-Conmunist oath.