Frank W. Mondell: "Charles Michelson*, Washington correspondent of The New York World, referred to me as ' former Senator Frank Mondell.' I have never been a Senator, but for 26 years I was Congressman from Wyoming -- a rarer thing, for Wyoming has two Senators but only one Congressman."

A. D. Lasker, ex-Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Corporation: " In recording the fact that I attended a World's Series baseball game, The New York Times ignorantly referred to me as ' champion at chess.' The Times reporter doubtless confused me with Emanuel Lasker, of Germany, former world's chess champion, or with Edward Lasker, German-Polish Jew, now of Chicago, Master Chessman."

Christopher Columbus IX, Duke of Veragua, direct descendant in the ninth generation of Explorer Columbus: " The Chicago Daily Tribune alleged that its correspondent in Madrid asked me for a message to America on Columbus Day, that I replied: 'I wonder what Grandfather Christopher would think of America today. If he could cross the Atlantic on the great Leviathan, see Panama and other wonders of the American continent, he certainly would be thrilled!'"

Eleanora Duse, " Bernhardt of Italy ": " As I sailed from France to fulfill a contract with Producer Morris Gest in New York, I explained my trip as a pecuniary necessity. Said I: ' I am literally trembling at the thought of the publicity I am bound to receive on my arrival. All my life I have perhaps been the only actress with a genuine horror of seeing my name in print. I have suffered so much!' "

George V of England: " A royal commission pronounced Buckingham Palace a firetrap with its labyrinth of draughty hallways, inflammable partitions, old-fashioned wiring and heating installations, spoke of it as ' fraught with peril.' The Palace, like all English Government buildings, is not insured."

Roscoe C. ("Fatty") Arbuckle, deposed cinema clown: " I was scheduled to appear in a vaudeville act at a Boston theatre. After certain citizens had protested against my appearance, a censorship board (headed by Mayor Curley) came to view me. The censors saw no occasion for acting against me--though they said ' the presence in the city of the individual . . . was in no sense pleasing or desirable.' In a statement from the stage I announced that at the suggestion of a Boston minister I had decided to cancel my engagement and return to Los Angeles."

* Charles Michelson is the brother of Albert A. Michelson (see page 18).