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

Sir Willmott Lewis, newly knighted Washington correspondent of the London Times, gave a party for the purpose of playing MURDER. Directress of the ?ame: his sister-in-law, Frances Noyes Hart (The Bellamy Trial, Hide in the Dark). Rules of the game: two players are chosen as "detectives," sent from the room while lots are drawn to determine who shall be the "murderer." Then the lights are turned out, the "murderer" picks and "assassinates'' his victim. The lights are turned on and the "detectives" examine the "corpse," question the witnesses. All are bound to tell the truth except the "murderer," who may lie indiscriminately. When the "detectives" are through with him, the "corpse" may rise and enjoy his own inquest, according to the theory that dead men tell no tales. At Sir Willmott's party the "murderer" was not detected by the "detectives."

As John Davison Rockefeller was about to climb into his car after a game of golf at Ormond, Fla., Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci drove up to the golf club. They were introduced. Seized with a great gallantry, Mr. Rockefeller cried: "Bless you, bless you! I have enjoyed hearing you sing so many times!" From his car he extracted a bouquet of violets and sweet peas. "I found these at my plate this morning, and they made me think of your voice," said he. "And here is my picture with an appropriate sentiment. And if you don't mind, I would like to read you the daily poem and prayer which we read at breakfast this morning." Best stanza:

Let's plant a rose beside the road

Where all the world goes by,

That every pilgrim, with his load,

May feast his happy eye

Upon its beauty as he goes

And breathe a blessing on the rose.

John Davison Rockefeller Jr., officer of the Legion of Honor, made known through the committee which has been restoring Versailles Palace, Rheims Cathedral and Fontainebleau Palace at his expense that no more money would be given for these purposes. The committee's secretary said: "France is now a fortunate country, indeed one of the best off in the world. Furthermore, the most urgent work of restoration has been done. . . ."

It became known that armed guards recently have escorted Owen D. Young wherever he went, because of violently threatening letters he has received for more than a year from an inventor who says his patents have been usurped by Radio Corp. of America. Police and Post Office Department agents, seeking the inventor, said they knew his name but would give no clew to his identity beyond stating that he once had Manhattan offices in Canal St. and is living comfortably off royalties from a ventilating device.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan having pledged the faith of its operators to enforce the Prohibition laws to the best of their abilities, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock abandoned padlock proceedings which had been begun after a raid last summer.

Built in 1872 as a cottage, later transformed into the Peaked Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) station of the U. S. Coast Guard, finally bought from the Government by Dramatist Eugene Gladstone O'Neill and transformed into his summertime studio by famed Stage-scenist Robert Edmond Jones, an historic building was knocked off its shore perch by a 50-mi. gale and carried into the sea. Mr. O'Neill was not present, was at his chateau in France.

The old White Star liner Germanic went ashore near Hora lighthouse in the Sea of Marmora and slowly began breaking up. Sad news was this to sea-loving oldsters who remembered her trim lines, big, square-rigged sails and two funnels amidships when she was (in the 1870s) the fastest transatlantic steamship. At that time she could cross from Queenstown to Manhattan in 7 days, 10 hr., 50 min. In 1895 she was equipped with new engines and driven the same distance in 6 days, 21 hr., 38 min. But when faster ships were built she was relegated to the Canadian emigrant service, rechristened the Ottawa. Later on, the Turkish navy bought her, used her in the World War, when she was torpedoed in the Dardanelles. Salvaged, she was made a Black Sea freighter, called the Gulcemah, in which capacity she was serving when stranded last week.

In order to be able to play bridge, auction and contract, for 16 uninterrupted days, a party of 250, recruited from many a state, boarded the United States liner Republic at Philadelphia and sailed for the West Indies under the sponsorship and tutelage of famed Bridgexpert Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead. He got a tournament under way before the ship was out of port.

Cinemactress Alma Rubens, concerning whom news has been scarce since she was released from Patton (drug-cure) Institute a year ago, dismissed her maid, Ruth Palmer. Maid Palmer went to police with a story that Miss Rubens had become angry with her while under the influence of the drugs she was supposed to be cured of. The police had just decided not to investigate when Miss Rubens herself appeared excitedly at headquarters, claiming that her chauffeur, Eddie Tholman, had stolen $9,000 worth of her jewels. Concluding that the chauffeur was not guilty, the officers searched Miss Rubens' rooms, found 120 grains of morphine in her purse and the hem of her evening gown. She was arraigned on three counts of violating Federal law, freed under bond of $5,000.

Francis Xavier Bushman told newsgatherers he had made between $6,000,000 and $9,000,000 during his stage-and-cinema career, but that all of this was gone. He boasted that once he drove a lavender monogrammed motorcar, smoking nothing but lavender monogrammed cigarets. "I spent my money like an emperor. But I don't regret it. ... I always will be able to earn a living. In a few days I start a vaudeville tour,'' said he.

Offering no explanation for failure, a petition of bankruptcy was filed in Manhattan by Francis Robinson Henderson, onetime (1926-30) president of the New York Rubber Exchange and director of the following exchanges: National Metal, National Raw Silk, New York Burlap & Jute, New York Hide. This was the second bankruptcy of Mr. Henderson, who started at the age of 14 (in 1899) as office-boy to a rubber broker, built up a large fortune, failed in 1921, and subsequently had recouped most of his losses.

Alicia Patterson, aviating daughter of aviating Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News, Liberty), left Sydney, Australia, accompanied by a fellow Chicagoan, Elizabeth Chase, to fly across the interior of that continent. Their destination: Darwin, North Australia, 1,900 mi. northwest of Sydney. En route they planned to stop at an oasis, hunt kangaroo.

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