"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Having celebrated the centenary of Goethe's death with lectures at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, white-maned Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann sailed for Germany and home. Between lectures he had found time to visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana at Cambridge, Senator Borah in Washington, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending Mourning Becomes Electra. . . Americans have such easiness of approach. You are cordial and dignified without being stiff and conventional. Your phrase--'Be Yourself --I believe it is slang--seems a fair index of your attitude. It is good Ibsen."

When beauteous young Nilla Cram Cook, recent U. S. initiate to Mahatma Gandhi's sisterhood, went to worship in the Hindu Temple at Dwarka, out rushed crowds of native worshippers. Priests wailed that the temple had been "polluted." After a 24-hour interval and a purification ceremony costing $75, devotions were resumed.

It was revealed that when Ethel Barrymore appeared in Washington in The School for Scandal, Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut invited her and Alice Roosevelt Longworth to luncheon, forgot to appear.

With two companions Leon Trotsky put out in a motorboat from Prinkipo. his island exile home near Istanbul, for a fishing trip. In the Sea of Marmora a squall wrecked the boat on rocky Dog Island, where thousands of Constantinople curs used to be sent to starve. Another fishing party rescued Trotsky & friends.

In his autobiography in Cottier's, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney wrote of meeting Jack Dempsey in the ring before the start of their 1926 championship fight in Philadelphia. "I said, 'Hello, Champion." He answered, 'Hello, Gene.' 'May the better man win,' I said. 'Yeh--yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey landed his hardest blow, a left hook to Tunney's Adam's apple. "The cartilage was pushed into my throat and lacerated the mucous membrane on the side. I coughed blood and was hoarse for several days." Tunney won the decision and "after the excitement in the dressing room subsided, I went to a small hotel, and had several pots of tea." Tunney blames himself for becoming "the most unpopular of all the heavyweight champions. ... I goaded and I gloated. I richly deserved what I got. None [of the other champions] . . . ever received the almost general disapproval as rapidly as I did. This was new to me. . . . The new path I was traveling was leading directly to the land of 'self-importance'--that impossible mental state."

Don Alfonso XIII, outcast King of Spain, returned to France after a tour of the Holy Land without passport or papers of identity. Only in Germany was he halted. Don Alfonso crushed the Zollinspektor by shouting: "Look here, my man, I am an admiral in your navy, a general in your cavalry, a colonel in the Uhlans and I demand your salute!"

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