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

A voice teacher from Peiping armed himself with an array of musical instruments and stage costumes, journeyed to Tientsin, there to instruct Hsuan Tung, onetime Manchu Emperor of China, in the art of operatics. Since his expulsion from Peiping seven years ago, Hsuan has lived modestly as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," has amused himself with a variety of hobbies including cycling, tennis, skating.

In July Calvin Coolidge will cease writing his daily newspaper articles for McClure Newspaper Syndicate until some time in September. News of his proposed vacation recalled an excerpt from one of his recent articles: "The brains of the country need relaxation and refreshment more than ever this season."

When Manhattan Banker John Edward Aldred ordered holiday bathers off the private beach of his home, Ormston House at Locust Valley, L. I., they pelted him with stones. Next day a private police booth was erected on Banker Aldred's estate which is flanked by the homes and beaches of George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison and John Pierpont Morgan.

Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control.

In Manhattan Lowell Fess, 35, son of bone-dry U. S. Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, appeared in magistrate's court, shielding his face with a straw hat, having passed the early morning hours in a lockup. He heard himself charged with disorderly conduct, heard that he "while intoxicated did use abusive and profane language and attempted to take the officer's baton." He had, moreover, shouted to the desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from Ohio." Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate." When the policeman (whom he referred to in court as "Dick") had tried to quiet him, Fess directed his hostility at him. To the magistrate Fess explained: "I was celebrating an addition to our family four days ago. I want the court to accept my apology." He showed some snapshots to the magistrate, paid $10 fine, walked out.

The $350,000 mansion built at Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. by the late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker with part of the fortune which she made from the sales of hair-straightener to other Negroes, was offered at auction. But in contrast to the eager crowds who scrambled to buy the furnishings last winter (TIME, Dec. 8) only a few desultory bidders appeared at "Villa Lewaro." Their dim enthusiasm became dimmer when the famed $25,000 organ in the house refused to play. The housekeeper who alone knew the secret of its operation was absent. When nothing better than a $50,000 bid could be aroused for the entire property, a lawyer for the estate bid it at $60,000. He spoke vaguely of making the estate a hotel for Negroes, or a "national cultural shrine."

Sir Arthur Keith, famed British anthropologist, addressing the University of Aberdeen where he was once a student, said: "Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning, and war is her pruning hook. We cannot dispense with her services. . . . Race prejudice, I believe, works for the ultimate good of mankind and must be given a recognized place in all our efforts to obtain natural justice in the world."

Broadcast was Publisher William Randolph Hearst's cure for the Depression: a $5,000,000,000 Federal bond issue to be spent on public works. Said he: "A gigantic appropriation would immediately set the machinery in motion for the restoration of prosperity, provided, of course, the Government did not set on it like a deluded hen on a porcelain doorknob." Mr. Hearst declared that President Hoover knew how to restore prosperity but that neither his actions nor proposals were "on a scale commensurate with the magnitude of the problem." Endorsed was the Hearst plan by politicians, educators, clergymen looking for publicity.

Aboard their yacht Injanta, John Barrymore and wife (Cinemactress Dolores Costello) with their 14-month-old baby were cruising Alaskan waters "for rest."

To his oculist in London went Herbert Stanley Morrison, Britain's Minister of Transport. Purpose: to be fitted with eyeglasses which may qualify him for renewal of his automobile driver's license. In a new transportation act recently drawn up by Minister Morrison, stringent qualifications of eyesight were imposed. Minister Morrison could not meet them, was forced to abandon his practice of driving daily between his South London home and Whitehall office.

To the New York Evening Post's contest for snapshots of pets, Lucrezia Bori submitted a photograph of her wire-haired terrier Rowdy, seated on a velocipede. The Post declared the picture eligible for the finals of the competition. First prize: $25.

Among those seriously ill were: Princess Marie Louise Augusta, 58, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a first cousin of King George (intestinal infection and fever); the Duchess of VenI dome, sister of King Albert of the Begians who visited her last week by airplane from Brussels. Recovered from illness were Capt, Robert Dollar, 87, famed California shipping tycoon, and John Philip Sousa.

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