Monday, Oct. 21, 1929

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

Elisabeth Morrow, returning with her Ambassador father to Mexico, said she would teach English to fifth graders in Mexico City's public schools. Her plan: to establish some day a school of her own for boys and girls in Manhattan.

Florence Trumbull Coolidge, two weeks a New Haven, Conn., housewife, contracted to write a magazine article on housekeeping.

Laurence Stallings, author (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory?), is now a planter in Caswell County, N. C. Last , week he took his first lot of tobacco, some 400 Ibs., to Danville, Va.; sold it for $112.01.

Colonel William Joseph Donovan, onetime (1925-29) Assistant to the Attorney General, and Henry Herrick Bond, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, announced the law firm of Donovan & Bond in Washington, D. C.

Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan sailed to Italy on the Cosulich motor ship Saturnia. Next to his suite is a Roman Catholic chapel, the Saturnia and her sistership Vulcania, being the only ships pontifically authorized to carry the sacrament.

Martin John Insull, brother of Samuel Insull (utilities, opera) sat with his wife at dinner in his Highland Park, Ill., home while a thief entered his wife's bedroom upstairs and stole away with jewelry valued near $175,000.

George Lemesneger, Los Angeles winemaker and realtor, died in 1926. One of his three daughters was Sister Philomene of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in St. Louis. Released of her vows she went to California, as Miss Jeanne Lemesneger, to settle the estate (valued between $5,000,000 and $8,000,000). Last week it was learned that she had inherited some $1,500,000, that she would return to convent life.

Claude Farrere, racy French novelist (Les Civiliises), bowling along in an automobile with his friend, Author Pierre Benoit (Les Suppliantes), was injured in a crash near Toulouse, France.

Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, successfully defended a $50,000 suit brought against her by Rev. Harry H. Clark, Seattle divine, for breach of promise, in Seattle. Her plea for nonsuit granted, she was surrounded by crowds of spectators who congratulated her, smacked her hands.

Edward F. Albee, vaudeville manager (Keith-Albee), trustee of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, still abuilding after 37 years, gave the cathedral $150,000 more, having previously given $100,000, raised from theatrical sources some $140,000.