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

Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin

offered a prize of -L-20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends.

Short, portly Alexander Woollcott,

sometime dramatic critic for the New York Times, Sun, Herald, World and colyumist for The New Yorker, announced that he would appear this autumn with Francine Larrimore (Chicago, Let Us Be Gay) in a play called Brief Moment.

Dancer Ann Pennington started suit for $100.000 against Lever Bros. Co. ("Lux" soap) and J. Walter Thompson Co. (advertising) for exploiting her age in an advertisement, thus: "I really am 39 years old. I never mind telling my age. As long as a woman doesn't look old, I don't see why birthdays should worry her. . . ." In Who's Who in the Theatre, dimple-kneed Dancer Pennington states that she was born in 1898.

Banker John Pierpont Morgan added to his Glen Cove (L. I.) estate by buying for $650,000 "Rattling Springs," the 65-acre estate of the late Percy Chubb, which adjoins that of his son. Junius. "Rattling Springs" includes a pond which Mr. Morgan may convert into a yacht basin.

Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, gave a new gymnasium to Kirkcudbright (Scotland) Academy. Before they emigrated to New York, the Cochrans lived at Kirkcudbright, went to the academy. They were influenced to leave by the late James Lenox, uncle of the founder of New York's Lenox Library, who made his fortune in the U. S., returned to Kirkcudbright to die. Another old Kirkcudbright county family was the Pauls, forebears of Admiral John Paul Jones.

The Zumi Trail which connects Boy Scout camps near Ten Mile River, N. Y., was renamed the Mortimer L. Schiff Trail in memory of the late financier and charitarian who was elected president of the National Council a month before his death (TIME, May 18; June 15).

Sir Henry Fowler, chief mechanical engineer of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co., was motoring to Derby to work. At an intersection a police officer stopped the car momentarily, then beckoned it on. Sir Henry and the officer nodded cordially. It was his son George, a Cambridge undergraduate, who is working as a constable during his vacation. Explained his father: "Start in Scotland Yard? Certainly not! He is starting at the bottom as an ordinary uniformed policeman."

Lawrence Richey, President Hoover's detective-secretary, flew to Panama, caught two 10-ft. sailfish in two days in

Panama Bay. Then he went to U. S. Minister Roy Tasco Davis, had a diplomatic passport made out for himself & fish, with pictures of all three. The passport requested that "all skeptics into whose hands these presents shall come give full credence to the tales Senor Richey may tell. . . ." Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post went to visit on a ranch west of Fort Collins, Col. With his host and another friend he wandered along the Cache Poudre River. Publisher Bonfils saw a pool of rainbow trout. "Try 'em if you like," said his host, "but they won't rise to the fly." Publisher Bonfils got a light rod, waders, put two flies on his leader, cast. Pleased was Publisher Bonfils when a little trout struck at once, ran toward the deep end of the pool. Startled was he when his rod bent double as a bigger, a monster fish struck the other fly, knocking the first trout free. Alarmed was he when suddenly a big, mossy-horned buck deer came out of the brush, walked into the river and started shoving Pub lisher Bonfils into deep water. Delighted was he when his host shooed the deer away and he climbed out of the stream 45 min. later with a 7 1/4 Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif, who led the Na tional League in homeruns in 1913-15 and 1917-19, after a motor accident; the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V of England, after an appendectomy, in London.

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