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

Baron Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, husband of Bertha Krupp,* spoke last week in Essen at the unveiling of a monument to the 13 employes of the Krupp Works who were killed by French occupation troops in a 1923 riot. Said he: "Every German should think daily and hourly of this miserable French sanguinary act. What the French did to the Germans cries for vengeance and revenge. How fervently we must hate has been taught us by the French. This hate should be holy to us. It should be handed down as a legacy from generation to generation until that hour when freedom and the fulfillment of the Fatherland's aims have been attained."

Mrs. Alanson Bigelow Houghton,

wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, on her way to a smart London dinner, stepped from her limousine into an open coal chute, partly disappeared. Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy.

Anne Nichols, playwright, took the witness stand, last week in Manhattan, in her $3,000,000 suit against the Universal Pictures Corp. for alleged pirating of her play, Abie's Irish Rose, in a Universal movie called The Cohens and the Kellys. Specimen questions & answers:

Q: "Have you ever studied dramatic art?"

Miss Nichols: "No. I just wrote from my heart."

Q: "Are you familiar with contemporary drama?"

Miss Nichols: "I can't say that I am.

Things just come to me and I put them on paper."

Miss Nichols also testified that she had never read Shakespeare, but that she had heard of the character of Shylock. The defense was attempting to show that the theme of Abie's Irish Rose was as old as Shakespeare.

In court, Miss Nichols wore a mink coat and a velvet toque. Abie's Irish Rose has earned for her a personal profit of some $6,000,000. As a movie (Paramount), it is still running in the U. S. As a play, it opened last week in Berlin.

Eugene O'Neill, playwright, big-mystery-man of Shanghai, Honolulu, South Sea Islands, South Pole, Manila, Rapallo, Manhattan, Cape Cod and points north, east, south & west, has confessed and proven that he is none other than himself. It all happened this way. Playwright O'Neill has visited, been rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien"; he identified himself by showing a passport and an old account book with entries of royalties from his play Anna Christie.* Said he: "My plays are public, but my life should be private." He hinted that his next destination would be Rapallo, Italy, where he plans to finish a cinema scenario.

His son, Eugene O'Neill Jr., a freshman at Yale, refused to comment on his father's globetrotting.

Henry Ford added another generality to his large list./- Said he, in an interview in the January McClure's: "This globe has been inhabited by intelligent people millions of times, and very ancient people, I believe, were highly developed in the arts and sciences. . . . I am sure they had the automobile, the radio, the airplane--everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Historians and geologists, with whom Mr. Ford has not always agreed, did not agree with him in this case.

Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late hunter-President, arrived last week in Rangoon, sojourned with Governor Sir Charles Innes of Burma, prepared to push on into the jungle, there to hunt big game and gather strange specimens.

Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, 70, widow of the late Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera.

Maude Adams, 56, will sail for India in January to direct the production of a cinema (in colors) of Rudyard Kipling's Kim. When she returns to the U. S., she plans to go on the road with dramatic readings of her oldtime successes (Peter Pan, What Every Woman Knows, etc.). Her home is at Ronkonkoma, Long Island.

Queen Victoria of Sweden who is generally indisposed and keeps to her hotel on the Riviera, received last week an island in the Swiss Lake Constance from her late brother. Prince Max of Baden, onetime Imperial Chancellor to Wilhelm II of Germany, and first to announce his abdication.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. received from his father and mother a check for $1,000,000 to pay off the creditors of his defunct tabloid newspapers. One million, two hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars of his heritage was also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary Weir Logan.

Burges Johnson, 51, has written pleasant books for children and for grownups, too--Bashful Ballads, The Bubble Books, etc. From 1915 to 1926, he was professor of English at Vassar College (female), where his courses were well liked. Last week, he made a speech in Chicago: "There no longer are any effective cuss words. Profanity is just a greeting, an indication of closest friendship and regard." Professor Johnson is now on the payroll of Syracuse University.

* Active, potent Elder Daughter & Heir of the late last male Krupp. She directed the vast Krupp Works during the World War.

*The United Press was the first to locate Playwright O'Neill in Manila.

/- A fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 24), Mr. Ford said: "No successful boy ever saved any money."