IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS

(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)

Alvin Owsley, National Commander of the American Legion: " Marooned at Baton Rouge, La., by washouts on the railroad, I refused to fly by aeroplane to make a speaking engagement. Said I: 'I promised my wife that I would not ride in a plane, and I'll stick to the train.'"

James A. Stillman: "I changed the name of my yacht from Modesty to Winona II."

Samuel W. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Co: "It was suggested to me that I become a candidate for the Presidency in 1924. Said I: 'I'd rather be President of Baldwin's. It pays better and is more fun!'"

Devereux Milburn, polo player: "I had a small piece of bone removed from my knee because of an accident on the field two weeks ago. I expect to play again in June."

Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired: "In a speech at Oakland, Cal., I said: ' I could have had my arms decorated with gold lace up to my elbow if I had stuck by Daniels' (ex-Secretary of the Navy's) falsehood that the Navy (in 1917) was fully equipped and ready to fight.'"

The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant: " I admitted in The Religion of Main Street, published by the New York American Library Service, that I was not the author of my reply to Bishop Manning when he asked that I withdraw my unorthodox statements. The letter of reply was composed by a group of friends."

Princess Yolanda: " Deputy Torre, the Italian railroad commissioner, ordered the dismissal of numbers of women railway employees. I wrote him saying that it would hurt me if on the day of my wedding less fortunate women lost their means of livelihood. Thereupon he revoked the order for 10% of the women affected."

Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, husband of Princess Yolanda: "I arrived in Rome by train for my wedding and found reporters, photographers and a royal automobile waiting for me at the station. Wearing civilian clothes, I gave them all the slip and took a taxicab to the palace."

Secretary of War Weeks: "A pension was granted to a survivor of the ill-fated command of General Custer. He is Shuh-Shee-Absh, a Crow Indian, who was an Indian Scout for the General at the time of the massacre of June 25, 1876."

Geraldine Farrar: " One Helen Swanson is suing me for $5,000. She used to be my maid, and she asserts that she contracted eye trouble from wiping her face on a towel which had been used on my Pekinese after its bath."

Henry Ford: "The Russian Government desired to boycott all my products because it doesn't like my opinions of the Soviet. It canceled all orders given for my automobiles --but accepted a shipload of Fordson tractors because they were paid for."

Hall Caine, British novelist: "Harvey Fly, an American, is suing me for $5,000 as commission on the sale of the film rights of The Master of Man to the Goldwyn Co. The sale price was $50,000 and he contends that $5,000 is a fair commission."

Frank Harris, critic and publisher: " On my 68th birthday in Paris I told an American reporter: 'I have come to Paris because I am going to put anything I want in my stomach. . . . Forty years ago I was in Paris. I knew Sarah Bernhardt and Guy de Maupassant. I drank then and I have been drinking ever since.'"

Dr. Frederick A. Cook, "North Pole Discoverer": "At Fort Worth I was arrested with several of my associates for using the mails to defraud in the sale of oil stock. I furnished $25,000 bail and was released."

Le Marechal Joffre: "At the funeral of General Manoury, made Marechal de France after his death, I gave him entire credit for winning the battle of the Marne by loading his army into the taxicabs of Paris and by a quick sortie turning von Kluck's flank.

Frank A. Vanderlip: " I returned to New York from California in perfect health. Insulin, new serum for diabetes, has given me an appetite like a hired man. And I can look rare beef and boiled potatoes squarely in the face."

M. Andre Citroen, French automobile magnate: " After arriving in New York I dined and went to hear the opera Mona Lisa, with Otto H. Kahn."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "I announced that I created 'Sherlock Holmes' to be my advance agent. Years ago I reasoned that, through Holmes, people would hear of me and would accordingly lend ready ear to my preaching."