Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

David Belasco, play producer:

"Equipped with crackers, a bottle of milk and a play for reading, I was speeding in my limousine down Manhattan's Riverside Drive in the small hours of New Year's Eve last week. Biff, crack, splinter-clatter--the glass of the windows broke about me as another car, revelers within, ran head on into mine. Five stitches had to be taken in my eyelid, and my head is bandaged over other cuts. The New York Herald-Tribune, perhaps to increase sympathy, reported me as 'in the seventies'; I am 67."

Maria Jeritza, prima donna:

"Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese princess. Signor Lauri-Volpi shooed. I called. Teddy came."

Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick): "Belgrade, 950 miles distant from Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself."

Chancellor Herbert S. Hadley of Washington University, onetime (1909-13) governor of Missouri: "Ill, I was unable to deliver my speech at a university club luncheon in Kansas City, Mo. But the mayor read aloud what I had written, including my endorsement of President Clarence Cook Little's (University of Michigan) plan to minimize the importance of college football by having rival universities prepare two teams apiece. Let them be called, for example, the Red team and the Blue. Let only Red meet Red and Blue meet Blue, a game at each college on the same day, 'thus making it unnecessary for students to leave their own school to witness a football game.' "

Charles Gates Dawes: " 'That would be assuming,' said I last week over the telephone to a news-gatherer who asked me to say something to the U. S. people for New Year. 'That would not be modest,' said I next, to a proposition to wish them a 'Happy New Year.' The persistent fellow then asked if I would wish him a Happy New Year. 'Happy New Year,' said I."

Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York:* "I last week marked the 1,300th birthday of York Minster, by knocking 13 times, once for each hundred years, on the great door of the Cathedral church of St. Peter, which is the Minster. This ceremony occurs only once a century. Edwin, first Christian King of Northumbria, was baptized by Paulinus, first Archbishop of York, on Easter Day, 627, in a little wooden church where York Minster now stands."

Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University: "Last week there appeared at our university a new weekly pamphlet, New York, edited by Dr. Harold deWolf Fuller, now professor of journalism at N. Y. U. The object: to foster mutual understanding between the university and the outside world. With four pages, no advertisements, very brief articles and editorials (chiefly by professors, on tan paper in sepia ink, New York discussed and reported on 'the scientific spirit,' crime, thyroids, college humor, pneumonia, books, theatre, Manhattan traffic, the U. S. Steel dividend, the tariff. The subscription price is $1 a year. I gave my official blessing."

Marshal Foch: "The railway car in which I affixed my signature to the Armistice has stood, since the War, weather-beaten in the courtyard of Les Invalides (War Museum) at Paris. Last week Arthur H. Fleming of Pasadena, Calif., completed arrangements whereby he will contribute 100,000 francs and the car will be housed in a suitably erected memorial at Compiegne, France."

Henri-Philippe-Benoni-Omer-Joseph Petain, Marshal of France ("They shall not pass!") : "Since the War I have been working my farm and vineyards near Villeneuve-Loubet, between Cannes and Nice, and like other French farmers I must get my annual permit to make wines and brandy. So last week, my servant and I went for that permit. 'What's your name?' asked the clerk. 'Petain,' said I. Said he: 'Your profession?' Said I: 'Marshal.' Said he: 'Did you serve in the War?' He thought I was a horseshoer (marechal ferrant)."

*The question of precedence between England's two achbishops, York and Canterbury, is delicate. While His Grace of York is "Primate of England," His Grace of Canterbury is "Primate of all England." While Canterbury crowns the kings and queens of England, York crowns the queen consorts (i. e., Canterbury would crown Victoria; York, the present Mary), and York is the queen consort's "perpetual chaplain", having thus an ear of particular intimacy. But while His Grace of York takes precedence over all crown subjects not of royal blood, except the Lord High Chancellor, His Grace of Canterbury takes precedence not only over the Lord High Chancellor but also immediately after "princes" of the royal blood.