August Heckscher, student of Manhattan's intricate housing problem, arrived on the lie de France and demanded, Cicero-like: "Is it not time that our great city, wealthy beyond the dream of avarice, or even extravagance, rose from its bed of filth and called the turn?" The question, rhetorical, went unanswered.

Jules Glaenzer, vice president of Carder's, jewelers, arrived on the lie de France, solemnly warned American millionairesses: "There are very few large precious stones in Europe. . . . Pearls are particularly scarce. . . . Large emeralds are almost extinct. . . . Prices are very high."

William Tatem Tilden Jr., John Hennessey, George Lott, Wilbur Coen Jr., boarded the lie de France with a mission. They went to wrest the truant Davis Cup from the arms of steady Lacoste, brilliant Borotra, and carry it back to waiting America. Tilden, veteran internationalist, and Coen, 16-year-old boy, alike were confident.

Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Major James Fitzmaurice, insatiate, sailed on the Columbus with wives (2) and children (1) toward two more official receptions (Bremen, Dublin). They displayed corns, water blisters, mementos of American handshaking.

Jeddu Krishnamurti, theosophist with a penchant for fractional eggs (for breakfast, he consumes "part of an egg"), left by the Olympic, together with Baron Van Pallandt, millionaire Hollander, convert to theosophy. On board, they discussed the 6,000-acre estate near the Hague, put by Van Pallandt at the disposal of the New Messiah.

Fifty physicians, led by Philadelphian Dr. George W. Mackenzie, departed for Vienna via the Volendam, in quest of knowledge. Their goal: post graduate courses in eye, ear and throat diseases under world-famed Viennese specialists.

Charles S. (Casey) Jones, ace pilot, vice president Curtiss Airplane Manufacturing Company, took with him on the Belgenland two experts on rail transportation, C. H. Mathews Jr., and C. E. Mc-Cullough, assistant traffic manager and general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad. They will study linked air-rail routes, baggage transfer, airport maintenance, return to plan the transcontinental air-rail service.

Mrs. Walter H. Kingsley, wife of the publicity director for glorifying Florenz Ziegfeld, varied the monotony of enthusiastic pilgrims, frowned on Europe. Vowed Mrs. Kingsley: "Parisian life drove me home." She sailed in May for the summer, remained but three weeks, returned on the lie de France, sought elusive peace and quiet of Manhattan.

William Connolly, stage producer (Good News, Funny Face), returned on the De Grasse with reports calculated to cheer night club patrons. European prices dwarf the much-protested American cover charges. Paris demands $20 for dinner alone, not including hat check, wine.