Visitors in the U. S. last week included:

"Tay Pay." Sailing toward the U. S. last week, aboard the Cunarder Berengaria, was the famed "Father of the House of Commons," Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, aged 80, and still the most vigorously picturesque journalist-parliamentarian in England.

"Tay Pay" clings to the taking of snuff and to wearing his hat when seated in the House of Commons, where he has sat since 1880. The snuff is a whim, but the hat stamps him as the last survivor of those indomitable oppositionists, the Irish Nationalists, once led by the late famed Charles Stewart Parnell.

Lord Birkenhead has said of "Tay Pay" that if he had been willing to swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself.

As a journalist, pamphleteer and essayist his output has ever been prodigious, and he still retains the nominal editorship of T.P.'s and Cassel's Weekly.

Last week he described himself as intent upon "a short visit to America taken purely for my health," and diplomatically declared: "America is marching in front today in literature. There is no denying her that position. It is all very well to talk against it and rave against it. . . ."

Turning to politics, he added: "We should rid ourselves of the camouflage of diplomats. Camouflage was conceived in deceit and born in dishonor. It lies both by inference and directly."

Dreiser. Arrived at Manhattan, last week, famed novelist Theodore Dreiser commented upon an extensive visit which he had just made to Soviet Russia. Said he: ". . .A short time before the exile of Leon (Lev) Trotsky (TIME, Dec. 26) he was subjected to pelting with vegetables by a mob. . . ."

Asked about the grain shortage in Russia (TIME, Feb. 27), he replied: "I cannot understand why there should be breadlines and unemployment in a nation so rich as America. . . . Nowhere in Russia, regardless of whether the nation is prospering or not, will you find men without coats, standing in breadlines, waiting for a handout. . . . That is one thing which the Soviet has accomplished which is not a theory but a fact. . . ."

Leeds-Anastasia. Rich Mrs. William B. Leeds of Manhattan, nee Princess Xenia of Russia, and thus a second cousin once removed of Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin.