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

King Prajadhipok of Siam: i) had the John Davison Rockefeller Jrs. to tea; 2) ascended with Alfred Emanuel Smith to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building whence he peered through dark green glasses at the city's multicellular environs; 3) called on Thomas Alva Edison at West Orange, N. J. and inspected models of the inventor's achievements. The royal plan: to stay on at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y. until late July, go to Canada for a month, sail for Siam from Vancouver.*

For the past three years Britain's Who's Who has repeated that Baron Terrington's favorite recreation is "motoring," has tactfully omitted his address (Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight). Having served three years for swindling $350,000, Lord Terrington regained his freedom last week, resumed his favorite recreation.

In Wilmington, Del. Mayor Frank C. Parks went to court and paid a fine of $1 & costs for having parked his car too long in front of City Hall while he was being inducted into office.

Corpulent Author Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb complained: "Why can't men wear linens, silks or other summer-weight fabrics? . . . Remember the pores, for they are with us always."

The stewards of Arlington Park race-track near Chicago having disqualified his horse Princess Camelia for fouling three other horses in a race last week, Joseph Leiter used what the stewards called "intemperate language and con-duct." They fined him $250, suspended him from the track.

Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, His Britannic Majesty's new Governor of Bermuda, startled Hamilton society by inviting Robert C. Crawford, Negro member of Bermuda's House of Assembly, to luncheon at Government House. Bermuda is strictly, historically Jim-crow.

At a party in London, Edward of Wales seized his brother George, cried "Pretend you're a lady and keep your long legs out of my way!" and stamped off with him in an exhibition of the tango.

John Pierpont Morgan declined to accept the presidency of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an office long held by his father. Reason: "Pressure of business." Same day he announced he will leave soon in his yacht Corsair for a few weeks in "Wall Hall," his 16,000-acre estate at Alderham, Herts.

Because, lecturing in 1928, he had stated that Count Stanislaus Dohna, 80, one time Grand Master of German Freemasons, knew in 1911 that the Serbs planned to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand of Austria (nominal cause of the Great War) and took no steps to prevent it, eccentric General Erich Ludendorff was given a choice of paying 500 marks in fine or spending ten days in jail, by a court at Gotha, Germany.

To the editor ef the New York Times, Editor Edmond William Nicholls of Bookseller & Collector wrote about dial telephones as follows: "The telephone authorities have presented us with an excellent plaything and aid to memory. ... If I want to call a number such as MUrray Hill 4-9867, I have not to memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with my own number. . . ."

Trouble with Editor Nicholls's scheme was that numbers with "i" or "o" in them lie out of the dial alphabet. And only a few people could translate their numbers into anything even as memorable as "Plesido." For example, best that Owen D. Young could get out of his Butterfield 8-2765 would be AV U A ROK? George Fisher Baker Jr.'s Atwater 9-2360 makes nothing better than BUY A FOO.

Actor Otis Skinnert mild-mannered son of a clergyman, talked with a reporter about the "joyous murderer Hajj" and other badmen he has portrayed on the stage. He sighed. "The only part that I have not played and wanted to play is lago in Othello. There is a delightfully villainous person." Then he said: "I might like to play Al Capone."*

*Spying out good night life for his majestic son-in-law, gay old Prince Svasti last week bewitched the manager and bartender of Manhattan's new, swank Terrace Club by letting them smoke one of his fat, perfumed special cigarets whose wrappings are lotus leaves.

*Played in the current Follies by Crooner Harry Richman (see p. 21).

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