Monday, Sep. 01, 1930
"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
Said Professor Albert Einstein in a speech with which he opened the seventh German radio exhibition in Berlin: "One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches."
A waiter in the Paris nightclub Chez Florence spilled hot gravy down the back of Dagmar Godowsky, cinemactress, daughter of Pianist Leopold Godowsky. When Mile Godowsky screamed her Argentinian escort rose, destroyed a bottle of champagne over the waiter's head, went to gaol.
Simon William Straus, distinguished Manhattan banker, lay ill in his room at the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue, complained of the din of passing traffic. Policemen came to abate noise in the neighborhood of the Ambassador, arrested one Robert Heller, architect, for tooting his horn.
Amadeo Peter Giannini, San Francisco banker, heard in Germany that his stepfather. Banker Lorenzo ("Boss") Scatena, was dying, boarded ship at Bremerhaven Aug. 13 at 11:50 a. m., raced by boat, train, airplane, reached San Francisco Aug. 22 at 8:13 a. m. Total elapsed time: nine days, five hr., 23 min. But Banker Scatena died several hours before his stepson arrived.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., summering in Maine, heard with alarm of great unemployment in Westchester County, N. Y., wrote orders that a lake on his Westchester estate be enlarged; 200 married unemployed start digging.
To Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., who once refused the offer of a $50,000 house from his fellow citizens of Atlanta, it was suggested that Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody might jeopardize her amateur status by accepting $20,000 bequeathed to her in the will of California's late Senator James Duval Phelan. Said he: "I wish someone would leave me the same amount. ... I think it is absolutely asinine for anyone even to question Helen's procedure. . . ."
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime U. S. assistant attorney general m charge of Prohibition, heard a report that she had been hired as counsel for Giant Fruit Industries, Inc., California grapegrowers. Mrs. Willebrandt said she had never heard of Giant Fruit Industries, Inc., grapegrowers. Catherine Booth, British Salvation Army Commissioner, took legal action to become Catherine Bramwell-Booth, to honor her late father, General William Bramwell Booth.
To Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur.
Charles Phelps Taft II, Episcopalian, and Pope Pius XI chatted at the Vatican, recalled the visit to the Vatican of the lawyer's late great father, William Howard Taft, sent by Roosevelt in 1902 to hold parlance with the late Pope Leo XIII.
Raymond-Marie Cardinal Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec, was dangerously bruised and cut when a blowout crashed his motor into a ditch near Levis, Quebec. Last rites had been administered, but prayers continued to go up from many a church in the Cardinal's province. The Cardinal convalesced.
Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean and examiner of the Sacred Roman Rota (Church law court) published the Vatican's first want advt. He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite.
Said Count Michael Karolyi, onetime president of Hungary: "The only nation economically sound in Europe today is France, and so France does not want war. But those nations which are not sound, and Germany is in the forefront . . . they will seek war."
The Hungarian Press reported that ex-Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, unlikely pretender to the throne of Hungary, had given up all pretensions, declared he would marry a Mme Irene Lelbach Rudnay. Said the onetime Archduke: "I want to create a little Hungarian paradise in Brazil."
Physicians told the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane ("Count Boni"), onetime husband of the onetime Anna Gould who became later the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord & Duchess de Sagan, that his paralysis would end with death. Two weeks ago he bade come to his bedside at a set hour many friends, a priest. From his friends he received adieus, from the priest the church's last rites. Then he waited for Death.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason,
British author, was elected to membership in the Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes in whose regatta King George V competed three weeks ago. Long ago, the Royal Yacht Squadron blackballed Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, proposed by his friend King Edward VII. Sir Thomas is a member, however, of 13 other royal yacht clubs.
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