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

Jesse Louis Lasky, cineman, one of Colyumist Bob Davis' friends who have been writing his colyum in the New York Sim while he recuperates from an accident (TIME, June 16), revealed that he once wrote and sold to Davis two short stories, which Davis published in Munsey's Magazine which he then edited (1904-1920). Further revelation: the author of "My Brudda Sylvest," oldtime Italian dialect song, was Jesse Louis Lasky.

Horace Liveright, Manhattan pub lisher, denied he would retire from publishing, said he was going to Hollywood to work for Paramount because "all good book publishers must go to Hollywood."

Dr. Lee De Forest, President of the Institute of Radio Engineers and vice president of General Talking Picture Co., vacuum tube inventor, announced he would move his research laboratory to Hollywood on Jan. 1. Said he: "In Hollywood I expect to do better work and more of it."

A big limousine collided with a small two-seater at the gate of London's Hyde Park. Out of the limousine jumped King Alfonso XIII of Spain, unhurt by flying glass. He shook hands with the young woman driver of the two-seater, handed his card to a police inspector, got back into the limousine, sped on to Bucking ham Palace, arrived punctually for lunch with King George & Queen Mary.

In Paris, famed Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, was caught in a rain storm, dashed for shelter, thereby dis covered--since the effort caused him no pain--that his physician has cured him of phlebitis (inflamed veins).

Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody, world's woman tennis champion, returned to the U. S., confirmed a report that, though she has won it four times, she has never seen the Wimbledon cup.

In Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth.''

Said Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, rhymester, in an article for the August American Magazine: "If you're a visitor in our home, you may look to see me kiss her [Mrs. Nellie Grossman Guest] good-bye in the morning and kiss her again when I come home at night. I'll give her a hug and a whirl around the room and ask her how the day has gone. . . ."

Siegfried Wagner, 60, collapsed, developed pneumonia, after weeks of hard work preparing for this summer's festival at Bayreuth of his late, great father's operas. The festival this year is also in honor of Siegfried Wagner's mother, the late Frau Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt (TIME, April 14).

Benjamin Marshall Jr., son of the famed Chicago architect, dived from his rented speedboat Whoopee to rescue Miss Betty Ayres, 18, one of his guests, when she was thrown into Lake Michigan by the shock of Whoopee's collision off Rogers Park beach with Scarab, a 14-ton rac- ing yawl alleged to be carrying no running lights. Marshall cracked his head against Scarab's hull, was taken to a hospital. Betty Ayres drowned.

Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter-in-law of the Earl of Derby, arrived in the U. S. to go to work in Hollywood. Said she: "Samuel Goldwyn invited me to come over and supervise the settings for a film he is doing. . . . We simply have to do something about money in England. The present government is taxing us out of existence. . . . Everybody has to get out and work."

"If they could find me a more distinguished title than George Bernard Shaw, I might consider it," Dramatist Shaw told newsgatherers who questioned him about rumors that his great and good friend Ramsay MacDonald had offered him a peerage, hoping to add his talent to the House of Lords. Then Dramatist Shaw joked: "I suppose there are sev- eral dukedoms vacant. They would scarcely offer me less than a dukedom, do you think?" He denied he had had any such offer.

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