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.)

Upton Sinclair, militant publicist: "I sued Dr. Max Hussarek, former Premier of Austria, for libel because in reviewing one of my books he characterized me as ' a knave.' The Vienna courts have awarded to me a decision of 500,000 crowns--which is equivalent to the usual ' six cents.' "

Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy: " My eldest son, Theodore, Jr., can ride Cossack fashion, standing in his stirrups, and take hurdles like a steeplechase winner. Sons Quentin and Cornelius and daughter Grace share his love of sport."

Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer and talker: " I went into bankruptcy and have been relieved of my debts, which will probably amount to less than -L-3,000."

Irene Pavloska, of the Chicago Opera: "At a Cleveland dinner I asked Americans to give as much support to opera as to baseball. When I finished Judge Landis put his arms around me, but I refused a kiss. Later--after his speech--I met him halfway, and we stood interlocked in a long and real embrace."

John F. Hylan, New York Mayor: " Said I of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ' If he really believes all he says he does, I'm sorry for him.' "

Lady Doyle: " I told reporters that the streets of Mayor Hylan's city are dirtier than any I ever saw, except at Constantinople."

James M. Beck, United States Solicitor General: " In a speech before the D. A. R., I told them: ' You ladies will learn what we men have already learned, that the most overrated institution in America is the ballot box. . . . The home, the church, the theatre and the press as institutions for disseminating ideas are like 42-centimeter guns beside a popgun when compared to the ballot box!''

Nora Bayes: " I sailed for England on the Mauretania with my three adopted children. As we approached the gangplank a bride and groom were going aboard, and the band struck up Lohengrin's most popular piece. ' Listen to that wedding march,' I exclaimed. ' It's my national anthem!''

Henry Ford: "When Alvin M. Owsley told me of the hardships of disabled war veterans in Michigan, I seized a telephone and gave orders to the Henry Ford Hospital that any veteran in need of medical treatment be taken in at once. My hospital covers 20 acres in the heart of Detroit and was used as United States General Hospital No. 36 during and after the war."

Archbishop Michael J. Curley, of Baltimore: "I told an assembly of Catholic women: ' If you want peace, go to a cemetery. There has been too much peace in the Church. When a Church becomes too peaceful, there is something wrong with the Church!"

Will Rogers: " At the annual dinner of the Society of Arts and Sciences in Manhattan I was unanimously hailed as the phenomenal humorist of the day. The editors of Who's Who mention three William Rogers--a cartoonist, a manufacturer, a clergyman. They must have forgotten the phenomenal humorist."

Vilhjalmur Stefansson: "I have been vindicated by the Canadian Government of the charge that I autocratically endangered the lives of my men in my Arctic Expedition of 1913-18."

Secretary of War Weeks: " I announced the awarding of Distinguished Service Medals to ten dollar-a-year men who served on the War Industries Board during the war. Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, who was chairman of the Board, refused a medal two years ago, but I hope that he will reconsider now that his colleagues share the honor."

Benito Mussolini: " I was enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing.'"

Mrs. William B. Kahn (operatic name, Frieda Hempel): " On returning to Manhattan from a concert tour I discovered that thieves had ransacked my apartment. They took my $15,000 chinchilla coat, all my initialed lingerie and all the flat silver. In addition they smoked many of Mr. Kahn's best cigars--but they missed 200 bottles of old wine."

Miss Cecil Leitch, three times woman golf champion of Great Britain: "I may never play golf again. It appears that my arm has been permanently disabled by an injury received two years ago in America."

Vincent Astor: " I purchased a store-and-studio building at Madison Avenue and 65th Street, Manhattan. Of recent years my family has been more conspicuous in selling than in buying real estate."

Jane Cowl: "When I passed my 100th performance as Juliet, the other members of the cast presented me with a facsimile of a first folio of Shakespeare, and a bouquet containing every flower mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, except rue, emblematic of sorrow."

William A. Brady: "I threatened that if the New York Legislature didn't pass a bill to permit theatrical performances on Sunday, I'd take legal measures to close the New York City municipal golf links on that day."

William J. Simmons, Emperor of the K. K. K.: " In a speech to a Konvention of Kamelia (the women's Klan) I said that New York City, due to its foreign population, is the most un-American center in America, and that New England is settled by French Roman Catholics who continue to speak French and maintain parochial schools."

Lord Robert Cecil: "The private car, Mayflower, in which I tour the country, has carried Foch, the Prince of Wales and every President since McKinley."

Leon Daudet, French royalist editor: " I announced in an article in L' Action Franc,aise, that the big gun which shelled Paris during the war, supposedly from 87 miles away, was really an electric gun situated in one of the suburbs."

Mrs. Louise Seeger, mother of Alan Seeger, the poet, who was killed in the war: "I arrived in America from France where my husband and I have been engaged since the war, planting fruit trees and shade trees for the peasants in memory of our son."

Dr. David Starr Jordan, veteran ichthyologist, pacifist, friend of Japan: " My collection of Japanese fishes, 500 species, contains 35 new to science."

F. N. Doubleday, publisher: "Mr. Joseph Conrad is coming to visit me at Effendi, my beautiful home in Oyster Bay. He arrives about April 30 on the Tuscania, whose skipper is his old friend Captain Bone."

Chauncey M. Depew : " Interviewed again, I was headlined as having said that modern girls haven't changed a bit as to dress since the days their grandmothers preened and pranced."

Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "My fifteenth season of the Metropolitan Opera closed with a record of crowded houses. We ran 23 weeks. Next year, 24. My chief stars were Martinelli, Gigli, Amato, Jeritza, Matzenauer, Kemp, Bohnen, and, greatest of all, Chaliapin. They sang 40 different operas, another record. Now to Atlanta, our only out-of-town engagement! "