"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), blackface comedian, said to Producer J. J. Shubert over long-distance telephone: "I'd do anything in the world just to help you out--for a certain sum." So it was agreed that Mr. Yoelson would appear in A Night in Spain, musical comedy now running in Chicago, at a salary of $10,000 a week for four weeks.

Except for Harry Lauder, who owns his own show and makes some $10,000 a week, Mr. Yoelson's salary is the largest known in theatrical circles. Marilyn Miller gets $6,000 in Rosali. Eddie Cantor, before his illness, was making $5,000 in Mr. Ziegfeld's Follies. Moran and Mack as a vaudeville team get $3,000 a week.

Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer of Napoleon and Bismarck, announced last week, as he sailed from Manhattan on the Majestic, that his next word-portrait will be of Abraham Lincoln. "I carry him in my pocket," said Herr Ludwig, showing a Lincoln penny. "He fascinates me."

James Joseph Tunney (champion fisticuffer) said: "Miss Bishop is one of the loveliest girls I have ever known, but it is decidedly premature and unfair to her to suggest that we are betrothed." Cinemactress Caroline Bishop said on the same day in the same place, Miami Beach, Fla.: "I think Mr. Tunney one of the most admirable men of today, but it seems an unfair strain on our friendship for newspapers to have us engaged every time we are seen together." The New York Daily News (tabloid) said:

Tunney and Girl Stage

Bouquet-Tossing Draw

Newsmongers again put two and two together when Mr. Tunney purchased last week a 75-acre estate near Stamford, Conn., cheap at $35,000.

Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, when trying to prove that she had not cohabitated with Kenneth Ormiston, her radio operator, in a California cabin, is said to have suggested that perhaps Mrs. Virla Kimball had been Mr. Ormiston's companion. Mrs. Kimball claimed "defamation of character," and sued Evangelist McPherson for $1,000,000. Last week, Mrs. Kimball's lawyer announced that the suit had been settled out of court. What the terms of settlement might have been, he refused to say; his client, however, was "perfectly satisfied."

Beniamino Gigli (tenor) was last week as fidgety as the man who wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon.