“Names make news.” Last week the following names made the following
news: Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation,
received a telegram: “Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question
Mark .” Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: “Good. Let’s trim Elijah.”Arrived in the U. S. is British Photographer Richard N. Speaight. He
will lecture and show an exhibit of his photographs and those of 39
famed European photographers. Photographer Speaight has made pictures
of Edward of Wales when he was in a pinafore, of Albert and Elizabeth
of Belgium when they were in a barn, of President Coolidge. To show how various European photographers get their portrait effects,
Mr. Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord
Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he
dressed as a woman for a taker of women’s photographs; posing for a man
who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and
robe. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi snubbed by European Zionists: “I come back
a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of
the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is
dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was
misunderstood and that I would find kindred spirits in Europe, but it
is not “I would want young men,” said Capt. Robert Bartlett, last week,
“tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with
their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we
got there.” He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship,
sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait
three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the
North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean. No exploring tyro is “Bob” Bartlett. He is 53. He was with Commander
Peary on two of his expeditions to the North Pole. He commanded the
Karluk, Canadian government vessel which was splintered to pieces
by ice pressure. Last week Capt. Bartlett returned from Siberia,
whither he had taken a party from Manhattan’s Museum of Natural
History. Capt. Bartlett deprecated airplanes and dirigibles: “They can’t dredge,
can’t take samples of water.” He estimated that his freeze-and-drift
project would cost $300,000. Purposes: study of magnetic &
meteorological conditions, currents, water temperatures; mapmaking;
procuring weather data. Otto Hermann Kahn, banker, caught a fish off
West Palm Beach, Fla. A 40-lb. kingfish, his catch was a record.
Robert Tyre Jones, golfer, caught a 7-ft. barracuda off Miami, Fla.
That was no record.
