Sir Harry Lauder

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

Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish clownster, stepped out of a bath tub in a Chicago hotel, slid, flip-flopped, broke his right ninth rib. Continuing to fulfill remunerative engagements, he said: "Bathrooms be a wee bit dangerous at times."

Hisses, boos and catcalls last week rewarded Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci for her twitterings as Violetta in a Budapest performance of La Traviata. On the occasion of her recent retirement from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 27), she provoked controversy by pronouncing interest in opera dead.

Forthwith she sailed for Europe where Budapest persuaded her to sing a Traviata for $4,000. But her voice failed to please. Nor did her audience sit lethargic. Only the presence of Admiral Horthy, Hungary's Regent, saved the scene from riot. Next night she sang Rigoletto. Tired of hissing, people walked out.

August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, planned to make St. Augustine (oldest U. S. city) and St. Johns County, Fla., one place "in which there would be no poverty, no preventable suffering, no unattended medical cases and no avoidable diseases." As a starter, he gave the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute (coeducational Negro school) a gymnasium, a cinder track, a swimming pool.

Sheldon Whitehouse, new U. S. minister to Guatemala, made known that Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to England, had sent Dr. Charles Upson Clark, onetime (1916-19) director of the School of Classical Studies of the American Academy in Rome, to the Vatican

Library to ferret among reports sent to Rome by 16th Century Spanish priests on Mayan culture. Dawes-backed, Professor Clark hopes to find references to the "lost continent" of Atlantis in the documents.

Simon Lake, who built the first submarine to operate successfully in the open sea (1897), made known that he will try to find $4,000,000 in gold, supposedly lost when a British pay-ship sank in Long Island Sound during the Revolution.

The estate of Jefferson Monroe Levy, onetime Representative from New York, onetime owner of "Monticello," famed seat of Thomas Jefferson, revealed that he died insolvent. In 1923 Mr. Lew sold "Monticello," which had been in the possession of his family since the Civil War, to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation for $500,000. He died in 1924.

Alice, daughter of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines (donor of the Davis Cup), was defeated in the finals of a tennis match for the women's championship of the island by Mrs. Felisa Ochoa. Score: 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.

Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, forgot her passport while traveling with Mrs. Morrow between London and Paris. Last-minute telephone and telegraph messages to the Paris Embassy and the French Foreign Office enabled them to continue their trip.

Ernest Winder Smoot, youngest son of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was proud that his Irish setter. "Delaware Kate," had been judged the best dog in the Buffalo Kennel Club show.

Henry Holiday Timken Jr., Harvard senior, son of the roller bearing maker, took his first flight in a $70,000 Ford tri-motor plane, the gift of his father.

Charles T. Davis of Brooklyn, "World's Richest Convict," finished an eight-year sentence for murder at Dannemora Prison (Clinton, N. Y.). With $1,250,000 in travelers' checks, he left in a private car for California. During his imprisonment, caused by his killing a detective, his surgical supply business was sold for $2,500,000, part of which was turned over to his wife, from whom he has separated.

Eddie Savoy, sombre, longtime messenger (60 years) at the offices of the Secretary of State, received an autographed photograph from Sir Esme Howard, retired British Ambassador to the U. S., in token of courtesies received. Recently the Japanese naval conference delegation, stopping at Washington en route to London, presented Messenger Savoy with a platinum and diamond stick pin.

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