"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Critic George Jean Nathan's newly-published Intimate Notebooks revealed that $500,000 earned by Strange Interlude enabled Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill to gratify two lifelong desires: 1) have shirts tailored in London; 2) own a carriage dog.

Oldtime Newsman Frank Ward O'Malley sailed for Europe as a self-elected missionary of U. S. culture. Said he: "There's a grand opportunity for enlightenment on Route 4, for instance, which runs all the way from the Riviera into Italy without a single billboard, not one barbecue stand, and only one place ... so far as I know . . . where a guy can buy a hot dog . . . the children over there, too . . . wouldn't dream of saying, 'Oh, shut up, pop' or 'Scram' to a grey-haired parent. No modernism about them. . . . The way they drink, too! Can you imagine a people that just fiddle along with an occasional sip of wine, instead of getting plastered?"

Without yielding one whit of his famed agnosticism, Lawyer Clarence Darrow joined a church -- the First Unitarian Society (Humanist) of Minneapolis.

Harvard's Professor Manley Ottmer Hudson, international law authority, was arrested in Connecticut for driving on the left side of the road. His plea: he had just returned from-left-side-driving England. He was released.

Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prince Noulay El Hassan, 3, son & heir of Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed, strolled hand in hand on a Paris boulevard. The tiny Prince spied, coveted a toy horse and automobile in a store window. The Premier promptly bought them, delivered them in person to the Sultan's hotel.

Stockholm moviegoers attending the opening of Susan Lennox saw the star's mother, brother, sister-in-law, U. S. Minister John Motley Morehead (whose wife lately bought two famed paintings from the Ivar Kreuger estate). Absent, though in Sweden, was the star: Greta Garbo.

Said Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak, returning from a European boosting trip for his city's 1933 World's Fair: "New York and Chicago certainly have got terrible reputations."

So ill he had to travel with an oxygen cylinder, tuberculous Maxim Gorki, famed Russian writer, arrived in Berlin en route to an anti-war congress at Amsterdam, stayed there in a hospital when Dutch authorities denied him a visa.

Major General John Archer Lejeune, U. S. M. C. retired, 65, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute, walked down an embankment on the institution's campus, suddenly found himself running, leaped a retaining wall, fell, broke his arm and fractured his skull.

Startled newshawks heard Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson thus announce Nicaragua's Vice-Presidential candidates: "Conservative, Emilia Nocha Morro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espino Sar." Soon came a revised release: Conservative, Emiliano Chamorro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espinosa R.

Sir Malcolm Campbell, record-holding auto speedster, was chosen chief of a volunteer squad organized at Reigate, England to chase British motor bandits.

Said Oklahoma's Governor William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, refusing an invitation to a football game: "Modern education has too many football, basketball and highball policies."

Rear-Admiral Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle was rushed at battle speed by his flagship, West Virginia, from Puget Sound, Wash, to San Pedro, Calif., where waited specialists familiar with his bladder ailment.

"I have developed a cough and decided I should do something about it. I was told Bagneres-de-Luchon was a good place." said Ambassador Andrew William Mellon in London, and went there.

Also ill last week lay: General Charles Pelot Summerall, in Charleston, S. C., and onetime Ambassador James Watson Gerard, in Manhattan, each recovering from a herniotomy; Mrs. William Edgar Borah, of influenza, in Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Payne Whitney, of an infected foot, in Glen Cove, L. I.; Artist Max Liebermann, of gastric disorder, in Berlin; Henry Morgenthau Jr., of infection caused by insect bite, in Manhattan; one-time British Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, of paratyphoid, in Salzburg, Austria; Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney, recovering from a mastoid operation in Paris.

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