Ramsey MacDonald, Prime Minister of England: "During the War I was banished from the links of the Lossiemouth Golf Club of which I had been a member. Last week I was offered an honorary membership at Lossiemouth. I accepted."

William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University : "In Scribner's for April I wrote: 'My present Irish setter, Rufus H. Phelps, is ... the most literary dog I have ever known. He has been stroked by W. B. Yeats, patted by Hugh Walpole, petted by G. K. Chesterton, caressed by Joseph Conrad, and kissed by John Galsworthy.'"

John Roach Straton, so-called "divine chatterbox": "In a statement issued from my Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, I pointed out that Harvard students did not jeer at me on the occasion of a recent speech by me in Cambridge, as was alleged. Said I: 'It is true that some of the students disagreed with me and, indeed questioned me sharply. But, they did so with courtesy, in good spirit, and in general I was treated with the utmost respect. ... At the conclusion of the meeting there was great applause, but I heard no jeering.'"

G. B. Shaw: "Recently I was criticised by the dramatic critic of the London Times for pronouncing "isolate' with a short 'i.' A lively controversy was the inevitable result. Last week one of my enemies quoted two lines* by James Russell Lowell: He may reign (Griswold says so) first

bard of our nation There's no doubt that he stands in

supreme ice-olation."

Mrs. Curtis Wilbur, wife of the new Navy Secretary: "Arrived at Washington, I said to newspaper men: 'I want to do the cooking. I love to cook. My children say I am always in the apron. I am afraid I shall have a lot of social duties which I don't like much. I don't want servants. around. They are too much trouble.' "

Richard Strauss, famed composer: "I have just completed a new opera. It is called Intermezzo. The plot is based on a personal experience which nearly wrecked my home. I described the experience as follows: 'Frau Strauss happened to open one of my letters which seemed to show that I was conducting an intrigue with another woman. Some days (Continued on Page 31)

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later another man admitted that he had been using my name in an affair of his own. My wife and I were happily reconciled.'"

John J. Pershing: "Many months ago Secretary of War Weeks asked Congress to enact a law to retain me on the active service list after I reach the retirement age next September. No action has been taken. F. W. Wile, Washington correspondent, called this another example of Congressional inefficiency."

William W. Atterbury, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad: "I recently made application for permission to serve as director of no less than 117 interstate railroads and other carriers. The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the application."

Anton Lang, Christus in the last Passion Play: "A short time ago I announced that I would not play Christ again. Last week it became known that the village folk of Oberammergau were 'much surprised' at this announcement. It appeared that they had already decided I should not again play the Christus--due to my being aged and a grandfather."

Frank D. Waterman, fountain-pen maker: "In a statement issued from New York's City Hall, Mayor Hylan attacked me for demanding (as a member of the Merchants' Association) that the City be given more subways, fewer buses. Said the Mayor: 'Mr. Waterman, by the way, is the gentleman whose company is very particular what the religion of its prospective employes may be.'"

Wilhelm: "One Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia, my cousin, raced his motor car through a village near Potsdam, hit a man, was mobbed by the villagers, and by them bruised. Next day, after, winning two prizes in a Berlin riding tournament, he was madly cheered by all the spectators except President Ebert and Minister Gessler."

Mary Pickford (original name Mary Smith): "I recently visited my old home in Toronto and was carefully watched by reporters who noted that my mother still lives in humble circumstances, that I was not ashamed of my poor beginnings, that I visited the grave of my father and the grave of my grandmother, that I am still Canadian. Concerning my grandmother the reporters said: 'Her Irish beauty now thrills millions from the screen as reincarnated in the person of her grandchild,'"

*The lines are from A Fable for Critics. They deal with Bryant.