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

Thomas Alva Edison, discussing photography with newscameramen at his Fort Myers, Fla. winter home, said: "I don't like these talking pictures. I can't hear a word they say. Something will have to be done for the entertainment of 2,000,000 deaf persons like myself. Take this It girl [plump Cinemactress Clara Bow]. I used to like her, but now she's talking too and that spoils the fun for me."

While inaugurating the Spain-to-Chile radio-telephone service, King Alfonso spoke to Captain G. R. White of the S. S. Olympic, 900 mi. west of England: "Hello, Captain, I've just called to say hello. Many years ago I traveled on your boat and I want to find out if she is still running like I am."

The Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals (Manhattan) announced it would award its medal for persons "who have rendered distinguished service in protecting animals" to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd in recognition of his devotion to his terrier Igloo.

Cartoonist George McManus (Bringing Up Father) made known that he would draw and explain his characters ("Jiggs," ''Maggie" et al.) to a Manhattan Methodist congregation to accompany Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's sermon, "Fun & Joy."

Sir Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch-Shell oil group, arrived in Manhattan from Europe with his wife to be present at the opening of the San Francisco Shell Oil Building. Of his company's price-cutting conflict with Standard Oil in the Far East said he: "A French philosopher once said that a dog is the most dangerous animal in the world because when it is attacked it bites. We are never asleep and we never give up. What we have we intend to keep."

Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, who commanded the first airplane to fly from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii, motoring near San Antonio, smashed into a bus, suffered lacerations of the face, concussion of the brain, a lung punctured by a spoke of the steering wheel.

Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles savior, visiting Paris on her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, announced that she had written the music and libretto to an opera, The Fiery Furnace. The scene is laid in the riotous court of the Pharaohs, the music to combine Old Testament themes and Jazz. Although first intended to be presented only at the Angelus Temple, Savior McPherson said that she had been persuaded to have it performed "at all opera houses in America."

James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight fisticuffer, was shown through the Tombs Prison, Manhattan. To reporters said he: "I don't know whether I should talk to such ungentlemanly fellows as you. You are not independent. You are biased. You write what the public wants. I consider the Press reaction to my meeting with Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, when he arrived in this country, to have been ungentlemanly in the extreme. . . . Really nice people instinctively steer clear of you." Of "Texas Jim" Baker, inmate, self-confessed mur derer of nine, commented Fisticuffer Tunney: "A strange person, yet apparently charming and gracious. ... I think the place is most delightfully cared for, especially the way those cots are made up. They're so neat."

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