Visitors in the U. S. last week included:

Mme. Chaliapin. She appears to be Russian. She looks about 45. Tall, with grey eyes and a fair complexion, she has luxuriant dark hair. Last week she landed from the Mauretania to assume in Manhattan the social status of the wife of famed operatic basso Feodor Chaliapin.

They have been known in Paris for some 16 years as an eminently respectable pair. Late last fall he was able to secure a Soviet Russian divorce from his first wife, a Roman Catholic who would not divorce him under the Tsarist regime. Recently he married, in Paris, the lady who landed last week, long known as Maria Augusta Eluchen.

On the night after she landed Mme. Chaliapin was feted in Manhattan at a small, snug banquet attended by famed Serge Rachmaninov and other musicians.

Anastasia. The New York World received a radio, last week from the cruise ship California, now in Caribbean waters. Text: "Mme. Anastasia Tchaikovsky is in America as my guest for six months on account of health. Have nothing more to say. Princess Xenia."

Thus it became a settled fact that rich Mrs. William B. Leeds, born Princess Xenia of Russia, is actually the hostess of the young woman who landed in Manhattan, last fortnight, claiming to be the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (TIME, Feb. 20). From Mrs. Leeds' cable it may be inferred that she believes the young woman's story that she was saved from being murdered with the rest of the Imperial Family by a Red soldier called Tchaikovsky whom she later married. The Soviet Government announced last week, "It would be physically impossible for any of the late Tsar's daughters to be alive," and proceeded to set forth once more the details of their execution.

Januarius Hayasaka is the name of the Right Reverend Roman Catholic Bishop of Nagasaki, Japan, who landed at Manhattan, last week, en route to Japan.

Unique, he is the sole Japanese Roman Catholic Bishop, was consecrated by the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, on Oct. 30, 1927.

Last week he said, with an almost diffident air: "There are more than 100,000 Catholics in Japan out of a population of 60,000,000, and I am pleased to say that the converts are steadily increasing."

A slight man, with greying hair, the Bishop was born in 1885 of parents who had recently been converted to Catholicism. Last week, as he descended the gang plank of the De Grasse, several Japanese Roman Catholics crowded respectfully forward to kiss his massive bishop's ring.

On the day after he landed, Bishop Hayasaka became the first Japanese ever to officiate at a Pontifical High Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The diocese of Bishop Hayasaka is that of Nagasaki, Japanese town, which was an insignificant village until Christian missionaries made it their headquarters in the 16th Century.