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

Madame Queen, who for more than a year has been a crucial offstage character in Freeman F. ("Amos") Gosden and Charles J. ("Andy") Correll's radio skits, surprised the radiaudience by speaking out for the first time. Since last Christmas when Andy, who had met Mme Queen as a manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified Mme Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there, he said to me, he said: 'Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa, and he sez to me: 'Kiss me, honey,' and I say: 'You go 'way from here 'cause I ain't gonna kiss no man.' ... He got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. That's exactly what he done. . . . Then after I said I would marry him, I give in and kissed him for the first time."

Onetime Senator James A-("Jim") Reed of Missouri struggled, pistol in hand, with another attorney before the jury of a Kansas city court. His object: to prove that a Mrs. Myrtle A. Bennett, who is accused of murdering her husband during a squabble over a bridge-game, might have fired accidentally.

"The typical Englishman is a strong being who takes a cold bath in the morning," said tart Miss "Red Ellen" Wilkinson M. P. last week, adding: "and talks about it for the rest of the day!"

Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre."

In his usual habiliments--morning coat, striped trousers, buttonhole gardenia-- Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York City's official greeter and onetime police commissioner, stepped out on a cinema set in Los Angeles. .So much did he resemble an extra actor made up for the play in progress that an assistant director gave him a push, bellowing: "Come on, get a move on!" When Mr. Whalen protested politely, the assistant director roared: "Don't gee fresh with me!" Grover Aloysius Whalen extricated himself from this embarrassing situation by producing his calling card.

C. H. ("Red") Riggs, who for several years has operated the barber shop in the

Oklahoma State Capitol, was shaving Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray when the Governor suddenly thrust him aside, threw off the apron, rushed from the scene. The barber had nicked the Governor's chin. Alarmed. Barber Riggs turned his shop over to Barber G. N. Glenn who, on order of the State Board of Affairs, finally paid Barber Riggs $1,200 for his franchise.

Three and one-half years ago Singer Mary Lewis made news by demanding a drink from the musical director of Vita-phone Co., for whom she was to record The Barcarole. She drank too much, spoiled the record; the musical director was discharged (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week when she sued Pathe Studios, Inc. for breach of contract to make sound cinemas, Pathe explained: "Miss Lewis became intoxicated and involved in a scandal." Hearing about these charges in Paris, Mary Lewis protested: "Im a good girl! I've never been bad!"

"[Leon! Trotzky's history of the Russian Revolution . . . was to have been published April i and obviously he would not have quit work on it unless he was thoroughly incapacitated," said Mr. Trotzky's representative in Berlin. Few days later, despatches from Istanbul told that sick Leon Trotzky & wife were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands as a Red chieftain), but not the manuscript of the history, which he snatched up as he fled.* In seclusion at the Hotel de Savoie on Prinkipo Island, he issued a statement blaming the fire on an overheated stove, denying rumors that White Russians or adherents of the present Red Regime had set the blaze.

*The publishing brothers Albert & Charles Boni of Manhattan have U. S. & British rights on Trotzky's history, which Brother Albert persuaded him to undertake.

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