"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, Spartan mother of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, sailed on the Lloyd-Sabaudo liner Conte Grande to teach chemistry in Constantinople at the American College for Girls. With her, bound for the same institution was Miss Alice Morrow, sister of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow. Both denied that Charles Augustus was engaged to Ambassador Morrow's daughter, Elisabeth.

Aimee Semple McPherson, famed blonde and ardent evangelist, arrived in Manhattan and prepared to sail for England. Her principal activities between coming and going were thus described by sardonic Reporter Edwin C. Hill in the sedate and newsy Evening Sun: "Having arranged for the movie men and the talkie-movie men and the common or garden camera men and some 15 reporters to crowd, without the aid of a shoe horn, into the reception room of her Hotel McAlpin-suite just before noon today, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the only lady in the history of America who ever walked across the Mohave Desert in an evening frock and French heel shoes, had her very, very golden hair meticulously marcelled, dressed herself up like a Christmas tree, fluttered into the reception room, plumped herself down into an over-stuffed chair (which groaned slightly) and expressed some very favorable opinions of the Good Lord and Herbert Hoover."

Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe.

Swoakabai Pandarinath Rajpurkar (female) sued Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar, onetime Maharajah of Indore, for $60,000 at Bombay for having imprisoned herself and her daughter for eleven years because the daughter would not become his mistress. The Maharajah's wife, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, is now ill in a French Chateau.

William V. ("Big Bill") Dwyer, former "king of the bootleggers," reputed boss of $50,000,000 business, upon his return from a compulsory year at Atlanta, was last week elected treasurer of the New York Hockey Club, made one of the directors along with Mayor Walker. To celebrate he gave a dinner for officials of the club and sports writers. The affair was extremely "dry."

Samuel Insull, public utility tycoon, purchased Mellody Farm for $2,500,000, last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world--her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates.

Lady Cynthia Mosley (she prefers to be called Mrs. Mosley), wife of Labor-Socialist Member of Parliament Oswald Mosley, daughter of the late great Marquis of Curzon, complained last week that she and her husband are being snubbed and cut by English society because of their near-Red political obstreperousness.

Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich Romanov, ardent spiritualist, will tour the U. S., lecturing. The Grand Duke says he has conferred with the spirit of his cousin and brother-in-law, the late Tsar Nicholas II, who told him the Soviet regime in Russia would collapse./-

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, was sharply rebuked last week by dignified, shocked wardens of the Amsterdam Christian Reformed Church. They felt that the good Queen had desecrated a Sunday on which she awarded prizes to winners in the Olympic Games.

Princess Marie Louise, cousin of King George V of England, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was cut in the face by flying glass in an automobile accident in Gloucestershire, England.

Intimates of Queen Elizabeth of the

Belgians were privileged, last week, to behold Her Majesty attired in a long pair of "harem trousers" reaching down to her shoes and fastened spatwise under the insteps. The Queen had worn the garment on the dustier stages of Their Majesties' recent tour of the Belgian Congo. "They are practical, ces pantalons colonials," smiled Her Majesty, "and many Belgian women in our Congo find them indispensable centre les insectes."

*A group of buildings near Broadway, Manhattan, where composers bang pianos and put together the jazz jingles of the U. S.

/-Notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin told Tsar Nicholas that the Romanov regime would collapse.