“Names make news.” Last week the following names made the following
news: George V. A motor ambulance suitable for transporting His Majesty to the
Sussex seaside where he will recuperate was driven
into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, last week, and later the Royal
physicians announced that they had “thoroughly tested its suitability.” Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany, eyed last week, for the first
time in his life, a cinema. It was shown for his especial benefit at
the censor's office. Its name was Waterloo. President von Hindenburg
asked whether anyone had been hurt in the filming of the battle scenes,
smiled when reassured there were no real casualties. Carl Sandburg, prairie poet, said last week in San Francisco: “I shall
not inflict another volume of poetry upon the egg-headed American
public until 1932, and maybe not until 1935.” Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, who has been teaching chemistry at the
Woman's College in Constantinople the past semester, received last
fortnight from the Turkish Aviation League a medal, with instructions
to take it home and give it to her son, Col. Charles Augustus
Lindbergh. Medal in luggage, she headed for the U. S. Colonel Thomas
Edward Lawrence, Great Britain's most
celebrated spy, reputed kinsman of George Bernard Shaw, arrived at
Plymouth, England, last week from India, having traveled third class
under his favorite alias, “Private Shaw.” In the House of Commons the
Government parried questions as to whether Colonel Lawrence had
fomented the revolt against King Amanullah of Afghanistan . Admissions that he had been stationed at Peshawar, India, on the
Afghan border, were coupled with the lame assertion that “Lawrence
was granted no leave of absence from his duties as a private in the
Royal Air Force.” As everyone knows, British R. A. F. planes are
constantly operating over Afghanistan. Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress ,
went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some
clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords,
the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1> that she erected the
balcony in violation of her lease; 2> that the presence of the baby and
clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors. Miss Lenihan said she did not want to appear “sentimental” about fresh
air and a baby, but stood on her renter's rights. The baby, not her
child, is the son of her second cousin. Major and Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin, of Chicago, stepped on a
dance-floor at Phoenix, Ariz., but soon stepped off again. Reason: a
marathon dance was in progress and the competitors, watching Mrs.
McLaughlin , felt tired, nettled. Mercedes Gleitz, 28,
onetime London typist, English Channel swimmer,* last week broke her
engagement to Private William Farrance of the British Army, whom she
had met by mail. Said she: “I have thought the matter over and
feel convinced that I shall never be able to settle clown as a wife
until I have successfully swum the Irish Channel, the Wash, and the
Hellespont. What is the use of letting a man make a home for me when in
my thoughts the sea spells 'home, sweet home to me?”
