"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

George Ade, U. S. funnyman (Fables in Slang, The Sultan of Sulu, etc.) touring the world, reached Manila last week just as the aged Sultan of Sulu came to town. Said the Sultan of Sulu: "I don't know him." Said Author Ade: "Shucks, I wrote a whole musical comedy about him without an introduction. I pictured the Sultan as endowed with a remarkable sense of humor."

Rumania's Queen Marie and U. S. Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney were separately applauded spectators at a bull fight last week in Madrid. Spanish newspapers passionately denied earlier reports (TIME, April 8) that Mr. Tunney, at a private show, killed a bull with one sword-stroke.

John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about.

Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what to do with it. . . . Certainly there is no service to humanity that Henry Ford could make of more lasting benefit than to send such a committee as I have outlined.'' Mr. Gest thought 100 experts would be enough.

James Alexander Stillman, Manhattan banker, steamed for Europe last week. Inevitably asked about divorce, he said: "No, I'm simply making a golfing tour. Mrs. Stillman is not accompanying me because she is supervising repairs to one of our houses."

Christian Keener ("Red") Cagle, All-American football halfback last year and captain-elect of this year's Army eleven, went to Manhattan last week with a group of fellow cadets on an "educational trip." ' Official goal: American Museum of Natural History, wondrous home of dried marvels. After that the West Pointers had freedom until 11:45 p. m. Hero Cagle broke away, accompanied by a cadet assigned to guard him. Eluding the guard, he rushed into the foggy night, arrived in West Point several hours late. Punishment (his second within three months for the same offense); six demerits and 27 1/2 hours of solo marching. Said he: "It was coming to me."

Matthew Henson, who 20 years ago mushed with Commander Perry on his final dash to the North Pole, received from the Bronx Chamber of Commerce last week a silver cup in recognition of his services to the country. No congressional award has ever been made to Musher Henson, although bills with that object have been introduced. He, a Negro customshouse clerk, lives in the Bronx.

To Helen Wills, U. S. tennis champion, pride of California, soon to sail for Europe for tournament play and exhibitions, was issued last week passport No. 1 under the Hoover administration.

Col. Edward Mandell House, confidant, political tutor and alter ego of President Wilson, lay fully conscious last week in a Manhattan hospital while a pair of surgeons spent an hour and three-quarters removing from the wall of his bladder a diverticulum containing a papillary growth. Effects of the spinal anesthesia died out 15 minutes before the operation was over. Urged to take gas, the patient, 70, said: "No, I will stand it." He was keenly disappointed because he was not permitted to raise his head to watch the surgeons at work, and asked repeatedly how things were going. Things went well.

Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein, one time bond thief, onetime convict, onetime husband of Comedienne Fanny Brice, was with the police again last week in Manhattan, as were two companions of his. Hotelman Thomas Kearns of Taunton, Mass., said that three men had so interested him in a plan to build a theatre there that he had drawn $33,000 from a bank, hid it in a bureau drawer. After a conference with the three men had produced no agreement, he failed to find his cash.