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

At Austin, Tex. Funnyman Will Rogers performed for the benefit of the Red Cross Drought relief fund (see p. 22). One of his stories: "[At a dinner party] everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long-- just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave him, so the people could see what he looks like, I could elect him."

Said Actress Estelle Taylor, wife of retired Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey: "I'm going to ... stay with the stage as long as I can hold myself together. When I lose my youth I'll resort to monkey-glands and face-lifting. . . . Babies? Never!"

In a Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John.

Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (Satevepost) explained why his company, which spent $1,000,000 last year for advertising, is spending $2,000,000 this year (TIME, Nov. 24). Said he: "In a period of Depression we must run as fast as we can to stay where we are."

Booth Tarkington, totally blind since last August (TIME, Sept. 22), told reporters who visited him following an operation by Dr. William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore: "The most important thing I can tell you is that I will be able to see again! At present the picture is a smudge, but I can distinguish color and form."

"We would respectfully invite your attention to the very strong feeling which exists in many quarters against the Eton College Beagles. . . . We do most strongly submit that Eton boys, with all the interests of the river and the playing-fields and the chance of practically every recreation which wealth and association afford, should resolve no longer to seek pleasure in hunting timid hares to death, but if cross-country exercise is still desired, should adopt the drag hunt, as practiced for years by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as by several of the military staff, and other colleges."

So last month wrote the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports to the Governing Body of Eton College. Signers of the epistle included three Bishops, many an artist and novelist, Theosophist Annie Besant, Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Secretary for Home Affairs John Robert Clynes, Baron Passfield, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. Eton's Governing Body made no haste to send an answer.

Traveling under the name of "Mrs. Grant," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was discovered at Honolulu, where she purchased a Hula skirt and a book of instructions in Hula-Hulaing. Later she took ship for India. Said she: "I want to get close to the women of the East!"

Mr. & Mrs. Howard C. Brokaw, Manhattan socialites, were playing backgammon at their Fifth Avenue residence when the doorbell rang. Darby, their butler, answered the door, was greeted by a personable young man who said he had a note for Mr. Brokaw. Darby accepted an envelope; as he did he found his ribs pressed by a revolver. "Take me to the Brokaws," commanded the personable young man. When he was obeyed, he told the Brokaws: "I need money and I need it badly!"

Mr. Brokaw's backgammon dice rattled in their cup, fell out upon the table. He reached in his pocket, found $175 and a platinum watch, surrendered them. Then he, Mrs. Brokaw and Darby were herded into a bathroom at revolver's point. The personable young man ran lightly down the stairs and disappeared. He had not bothered with Mrs. Brokaw's jewels.

Although they failed to identify him, both Mr. & Mrs. Brokaw felt sure they had encountered the young man before under different circumstances.

Onetime Governor Jack Walton of Oklahoma and onetime Police Commissioner Richard Edward Enright of New York City were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury at Oklahoma City on charges of using the mails to defraud. Their promotion: Universal Oil & Gas Co., now defunct.

Because Lincoln Ellsworth, who, with the late Captain Roald Amundsen and General Umberto Nobile flew in the Norge across the North Pole in 1926, contributed a large amount toward the $250,000 which Sir George Hubert Wilkins is raising to take an old Navy submarine renamed the Nautilus, across the Pole under the Arctic ice, the name of the Wilkins expedition last week was changed to the Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition.

In Florence, Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, as famed for her bulk as for her trills, sang her farewell concert at the Verdi Theatre where she made her debut 35 years ago. Benito Mussolini once gave Tetrazzini a photograph inscribed: "To the voice that makes one believe in Paradise."

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