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

Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder,

Scottish singer: "From West Virginia I wrote in support of Sunday observance in England: 'I am against Sunday theatre shows and have told my fellow artists if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre, and the curses of generations to come will be forever at the stage door. Men who disregard God's word and God's work can never hope to be respected. When for the first time I came to America I had four Sunday performances and a more miserable engagement I never fulfilled. I felt I was doing something against my religion, something which I had been taught by my mother was wrong. It was unnatural for me to work on the Sabbath and I felt ashamed of it.'

Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, wife of the largest holder of U. S. railway stocks (TIME, Jan. 24): "Back in Manhattan after a five-weeks' countrywide tour in behalf of the World Service Council of the Y. W. C. A., of which I am chairman, I declared that women give less to charity than men. Reason: a woman's giving power is usually dependent upon what her husband gives her to give. And, said I: 'A man who is generous personally to appeals often keeps his wife on a sum for her own donations that, by comparison, is a pittance.' This is why movements appealing primarily to women receive few notably large gifts."

Adolphe Menjou, sophisticated cinema actor: "When I walk about the Hollywood streets these days, few know me. In Evening Clothes, now being filmed, I appear in full beard. The beard is real."

William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice Hely Hutchinson (writing for the Century) all attacked my famed criticisms of corporations. They agreed with me that many holders of common stocks are ignorant, lazy, simple. The Government should look after the investing simpleton, I have written. These three men say he should look after himself."

Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them."

James Branch ("Jurgen") Cabell, author: "A certain committee last week announced winners of the O. Henry Memorial Prizes in short-story-writing for 1926. Wilbur Daniel Steele won $500 for 'Bubbles.' Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, the committee chairman, said that My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather had tied-for first prize but 'Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back on 'Command,' a piece published last April in Sea Stories (monthly) by one Richard Wetjen."

Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh.' "

John W. Anderson, attorney who organized the Ford Motor Co.: "I was called to the witness stand in the $34,000,000 Ford tax suit now in progress in Detroit. I told how I invested $5,000 which later mounted to several millions. I told about a certain night in 1913. Said I: 'On that particular night I arrived at Geneva, Switzerland. The children were there and we had dinner in our rooms. The cable [announcing Ford stock to be worth $500 a share] was handed to me. . . . I told Mrs. Anderson to put on her hat and we would go over and hear the band play. I bought a bottle of champagne. I toasted Mrs. Anderson. I toasted Mr. and Mrs. Ford. I toasted Mr. and Mrs. Couzens. I toasted the stockholders and I toasted the directors, and I think if a Ford had gone through the square that night I would have gone out and hugged it. I was very, very happy.'"