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

Ignace Jan Paderewski: " Since last November my earnings have been $460,000--or about $7,800 a concert. I smile at Ruth and Dempsey, who are reputed to average $80,000 and $150,000 a year, respectively. I bow to Fairbanks and Chaplin, whose reported earnings are $600,000 and $800,000."

The Most Reverend Patrick J. Hayes, Archbishop of New York: " At a four-and-a-half-hour luncheon of the Catholic Actors' Guild in Manhattan I said in part: 'The people of the stage have souls as much as other human beings, and they have beautiful souls. I have a shepherd's heart, a shepherd's prayer for each one of you.' "

William Jennings Bryan: " In a speech on evolution I said: ' I prefer to begin with God and reason down, rather than begin with a piece of dirt and reason up.' Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, replied: 'If Mr. Bryan accepts the Biblical account he must begin with a piece of dirt and reason up, for it says, Genesis 11,7: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.' "

A. E. Thomas, playwright: "Last week TIME erroneously referred to me as 'Theatre Tsar.' Doubtless some ignorant subeditor confounded me with Augustus Thomas, who also writes plays."

President Harding: " In California a corporation was formed called the ' Association of Young Men's Republican Leagues of California.' Its purpose is to welcome me when I visit the Pacific Coast on my trip this summer."

Anna Gluzman, 25, Russian " shooting judge ": "I am thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge.'

William R. Hearst: "In honor of my son George, recently married, my wife and I gave a costume dance at our New York home, No. 137 Riverside Drive. Those present included Biddles, Bonapartes, Harrimans, Gerards, Wanamakers, Ziegfelds. Also Ethel Barrymore, Ina Claire, Marie Doro. John F. Hylan, said to be my best friend politically, did not attend."

Theda Bara: " I am in Los Angeles writing a book. What Women Never Tell, partly biographical, partly philosophical. My husband says I am not going back into the movies,"

Rollo Peters, who plays Romeo to Jane Cowl's Juliet: "I am excited! My press agent announced that one of my relatives, digging in old genealogical records, believes he has discovered that I am descended from Shakespeare! "

Charley Paddock, American sprinter: " Arriving in Paris for the international university fetes on May 6, I was met by a large delegation. After expressing my affection for France, I said: 'My form is superb . . I am going to pulverize all my records.' "

Le Marechal Lyautey, French High Commissioner of Morocco: " In the drawing room of our home in the Rue Bonaparte, Paris, my wife has set up a Moroccan sheik's tent, which she uses as a salon. She also sleeps there on oriental rugs and brocaded cushions."

Billy Sunday: " In an interview in Louisville, I said: 'These men like Dr. Fosdick and Dr. Grant are good fellows. They read good books, are generous and kindly. But every denomination is cursed with liberal preachers who think they are one jump ahead of the Lord!' "

The Right Honorable Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer: "When I was elected rector of Aberdeen University, students kidnapped me, dressed me in a red robe and a yellow crown, set me aboard a milk cart and drove me as Pharaoh TutankhAmen to the principal's residence."

Long George Kelly, first baseman for the New York Giants: "In a nine inning game at the Polo Grounds, I made 21 put-outs--one under the major league record."

Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (Hugo Stinnes of booksellers): " Returning from a victorious book-buying campaign abroad, I employed wireless to purchase the Guttenberg Bible from James W. Ellsworth of Manhattan, at a reputed price of $15,000."

Chief Two Guns Whitecalf (the Blackfeet Indian whose profile appears on one side of all buffalo nickels) : " Announcement of my conversion from paganism to the Methodist Church was made by Dr. E. E. Higley, Philadelphia divine."

Theodore G. Bilbo, ex-Governor of Mississippi: " Upon completing a ten-day jail sentence for contempt of court--not having answered a subpoena--I said: 'I feel as clean as snow--purged of any suggestion of contempt,' "