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

In Chicago, oldtime Actress Edna Wallace Hopper appeared in Federal District Court to prosecute a suit for $230,000 in back salary and damages against various cosmetic manufacturers whose products she has publicized. When Judge Patrick Stone insisted that she give her age, Miss Hopper--looking except at close range not a day over 35--wrote a figure on a piece of paper, handed it to him. The judge's eyebrows shot toward the ceiling. The figure (if it agreed with the date of her birth in Who's Who in the Theater): 74.

Franklin Roosevelt's new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, made his maiden speech before the American Club of London. Said he of the U. S.: "As many of you know, I have been bearish for a year. I feel a little ashamed of it when I see what confidence Europeans have in my country's future." Said Bullish Joe Kennedy of Europe: "There will be no general European war for the rest of this year at least."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Roosevelt I and widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who has made talk but has never made speeches, announced that next fall she would tour the U. S. lecturing on "The American People and the American Government."

"There has been one very important omission from the toast list," observed Playwright George Bernard Shaw when he was called upon to speak at a luncheon given by England's Pascal Films to inaugurate the filming of his play, Pygmalion. "And therefore," he concluded, "I ask you to drink to the health of George Bernard Shaw."

Honoring William Randolph Hearst for returning to the Abbey Church of La Trinite at Fecamp, France, two 16th-century stained-glass windows, identified as stolen goods after he had bought them for his countryseat at San Simeon, Calif., the Paris Intransigeant identified him as a wealthy "manufacturer of garters.''

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