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

John Galsworthy, preparing to return to England, declared: "It does seem to me, coming back here after five years, that the people of America are more quietly efficient, more kindly if possible, less hurried, and on the whole, more contented-looking than I ever remember them."

In Paris Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, author (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), maintained that: "Those women of the Northern ;United] States will not last long because their lives are becoming devoid of emotion. . . . Those beautiful, emotional types of women in the southern part of the United States may be the saviors. . . . South America is the country of the future. It is the only place in the world where one still finds an emotional life of real intensity."

Porto Rican American Tobacco Co. started a new type of advertising for its "El Toro" cigars. Under a picture of Porto Rico's Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and over his signature it headlined: ROOSEVELT SAYS: "Give Porto Rican products a chance. . . . Our sugar, our fruit, both canned and fresh, our coffee, our vegetables, our hand embroidery, our needlework and our tobacco, are all in my opinion of exceptional quality. ... I wish our fellow Americans on the continent would give us a chance to prove the quality of these articles by trying them and seeing if they do not agree with me."

The Bluecher Palace at Berlin, new home of the U. S. Embassy, was destroyed by fire. Only the commercial attache, H, Lawrence Groves, had been installed in the building. He & family fled.

On a sight-seeing tour of Rome, New Jersey's Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow spent 20 min. with Premier Benito Mussolini. Conversation: "Personal."

Contrasting sharply with the arrival of Prince Takamatsu of Japan, for whom cannon and orators boomed (TIME, April 20), the arrival in Manhattan of Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince of Belgium, second son of King Albert of the Belgians, was so unostentatious as to cause comment by ship-news gatherers. Flatly the Prince disavowed intentions to "study" any "conditions" in the U. S. Said he: "I am a tourist, just as you would be in my country."

Following a custom observed by royalty visiting in Asia, honeymooning Prince Takamatsu while visiting the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. asked amnesty for all midshipmen punishable during that day. His request was granted--first time in the history of the U. S. Navy.

Honeymooning Princess Kikuko of Japan asked Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson how long U. S. Prohibition would last. He referred her to President Herbert Clark Hoover.

Henrietta H. Swope, 28, daughter of President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co., gave a lecture on the stars at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Thus the public learned that for the past five years she has been an assistant to Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Observatory. She has discovered more than 400 variable stars, been made head of the observatory's division of variable stars. Interviewed, she announced: "I can still go to parties when I want to. I do my work in the daytime. For astronomical research now, it isn't necessary to sit up all night with one's eye to the telescope. . . . We use a camera for seeing."

Prince Michael Romanoff, of Hollywood, marched out on a pier at Redondo Beach and leaped into a pounding sea. Five lifeguards almost perished in saving him. He explained that he had wanted to die because even his friends doubled the authenticity of his princehood after debonair "Mike Romanoff," long a famed, bold speakeasy character in Manhattan, had talked to them. The excitable Prince did not know that "Mike" was arrested fortnight ago in Salt Lake City, where he was posing as Rockwell Kent, artist whom he served as secretary last summer. "Mike" then admitted his name: Harry Gerguson, son of a Cincinnati tailor. The suave Gerguson way of living: never to claim being a Russian or a prince, but to stress his assumed name, which he pronounces "Romanov." By so doing, and by mentioning his education at Eton and Oxford, as well as by casual allusions to his exiled family in Paris, he has managed to be taken in as a special student at Harvard, to make large loans, to be dinner and house guest at many a mansion. His prize story: how he swam from Ellis Island, where he was interned, to Manhattan's Battery, with a malacca walking stick. Cause of his latest arrest: he passed worthless checks in Utah.

In the Pittsburgh Courier, Negro weekly, there appeared a cartoon showing a black man, labelled: 12 MILLIONS. Under his arm he carried a briefcase inscribed: SELF RESPECT. On his back an enormous white hand was descending, to stamp the black man with a big rubber- stamp. The rubber-stamp said: AMOS & ANDY.

It became known that the British Amos & Andy, who have been amusing radiowners as Alexander & Mose, are in reality Actors James Carew, onetime husband of the late great Actress Ellen Terry, and Billy Bennett. Said "Mose" Bennett, revealing himself: "The fee is almost negligible, but it's been great fun."

At an hilarious dinner in Manhattan's Coffee House Club to celebrate publication of Humorist George Shepard Chappell's latest book,* George Shepard Chappell, in the guise of his fictitious explorer Dr. Traprock, made a speech. He said in part: "This occasion makes me very proud. There is about it a faint odor of publicity, of which I am exceedingly glad. . . . The discovery of the Poles, either North or South, is not properly discovery at all. The simplest among us has always been able, by finding on his map or globe the intersection of the meridian lines, to locate exactly whichever Pole he desired to find. Reaching this predetermined point then, is merely a matter of transportation and of traffic arrangements." At this juncture famed Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, of many an arctic expedition, was supposed to rise angrily, slap Dr. Traprock and exclaim: "If you think it's so easy, why don't you go there yourself?" But so hilarious had the dinner become that, as Roving Reporter Louis Sherwin of the New York Evening Post wrote later: "He uttered, instead, an exclamation of a strictly genealogical nature. . . . The captain forgot to unclench his fist. The result was something an- alogous to being hit with a tomato which the thrower has forgotten to take out of the can."

Nevertheless Dr. Traprock did not fail to remember his lines. He exclaimed: "Like Sinclair Lewis, I am one of the immortals!" Because, like Lewis, he had been slapped (TIME, March 30). Frank Sullivan, Walter Trumbull, Frank Crowninshield, and many another applauded.

In the New York World-Telegram, Charles Edward Parker, oldtime sport- writer, told this anecdote:

The day Notre Dame played Carnegie Tech at Pittsburgh in 1926, the late famed Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne, sure that his Notre Dame team would win easily, went to Chicago to see the Army play the Navy. When the startling score came from Pittsburgh--Notre Dame 0 Carnegie 19--Rockne said: "Oh, that's nothing. We'll get a special dispensation and have that score annulled."

* Dr. Traprork's Memory Book, or Aged in the Wood, G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50.

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