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

Most spectacular members of the French branch of the House of Rothschild are paunchy Baron Maurice ("Momo") who was once unseated from the French Assembly for flagrant vote-buying, and gaunt Baron James ("Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe had been quoted in Manhattan as calling French wine "disgusting." To his father, who runs his profitless vineyards for tradition's sake, he earnestly explained: "What I said was that three-fourths of the French wines now reaching America are lousy."

From the King's Bench in 1618 Lord Chief Justice Sir Henry Montagu, later the first Earl of Manchester, sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death. With Oliver Cromwell as his second in command, Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, won the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

Latest-born adult male of their line is that chronic wanderer and ne'er-do-well Lord Edward Montagu, 29. godson of King Edward VII, who last made news in February when, after several false starts, he abandoned his hot-dog stand at Maidenhead and enlisted in France's Foreign Legion, only to be ousted promptly as physically unfit. Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail for pawning jewels which did not belong to him. His Grace repeated his most famed phrase: "The trouble is I have been a mug." Also proved a noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard. Suing for breach of promise, one Angela Joyce, "Miss England of 1930," produced a sheaf of letters written by Lord Revelstoke when he was a Cambridge undergraduate and which last week made him blush painfully in court.

Two years ago Michigan's Governor William A, Comstock started the epidemic of bank holidays by closing the banks in his State. Last week, having lost both the Democratic renomination and a large inherited fortune, ex-Governor Comstock went into bankruptcy. Among liabilities of over $1,000,000 were $150,000 in assessments on stocks of reopened banks. Assets: $6.376.66. In search of "some good Milwaukee beer." Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon and a U. S. marshal named McKenna bargained with a Washington taxi driver to take them to suburban Maryland Club Gardens and back for $2.50. Thirsty Representative Cannon & friend strode into the club at 10 p. m., found their way out at 1 :45 a. m. On the way back they fell to quarreling with the taxi driver over his charge for waiting time. As Representative Cannon later remembered it, the driver wanted $15. The driver said he asked for $6, whereupon his beery fares cursed, threatened to beat him up. Timid, the driver sped to police headquarters, charged his fares with intoxication & disorderly conduct. Police kept them in a cell until 5 a. m. Released on $15 bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan's famed funclub Casino de Paree was Jeanette McCully, known to patrons as the Girl in the Fish Bowl, In the intermissions of the Casino floor show Miss McCully slipped off her dancing costume, seated herself on a seashell chair in a cubicle off the bar, with a silken "seaweed" laprobe over her knees. In front of Miss McCully was a curtain, in front of the curtain a tank of water, in front of the tank oglers. When Miss McCully raised the curtain her image, three inches high, was reflected by a system of mirrors into the bowl. Miss McCully could hear her audience plainly, see them hazily through the water. "Once," said she, "a guy waved a $1,000 bill in front of the bowl and asked me to stand up. They said he was a big banker but how was I to know the bill wasn't counterfeit? Gary Cooper came back of the bowl to see me one night. My, he was so bashful he got all red. Jim Farley came to see me, too. but he wasn't bashful at all, just nice and fatherly. But most nights it got awfully dull." To pass the time Miss McCully crocheted, studied French, wrote poetry.

Catching up last week on her dancing and French, Miss McCully thought she would turn down an offer from the proprietor of a Chicago fish bowl. Reason: she would have to drop her seaweed laprobe.

From a bootblack chair at Chicago's University Club, Vice President Frederick Lee McNally of Rand, McNally & Co. (books, atlases) toppled, cracked his skull. While his wife was visiting him in a hospital, burglars stripped their apartment of jewelry, cash and clothing worth $2,500.

Early one morning Professional Tennist Vincent Richards was driving through The Bronx. Drowsy or blinded by headlights, he swerved into an electric light pole, clipped it off, demolished his car. Doctors said he had a broken right arm. a broken thigh, a dislocated hip which might end his career.

Voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by Princeton's senior class was Roger Stanley Firestone, coxswain of the varsity crew, youngest of the five sons of Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone.

*The Duchess, Helena, daughter of Cincinnati Railroad Tycoon Eugene Zimmerman, started divorce proceedings in England in 1931. When she let them lag the impatient Duke went to Cuba, got a quick divorce, married a onetime British actress named Kathleen Dawes.

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