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

As his part in honoring the late great financier George Fisher Baker, Financier Adolph Lewisohn of Manhattan took occasion to remind the public: "When I gave the School of Mines Building to Columbia [University] the building was to be named the Lewisohn Building and Mr. Baker, then one of the trustees of Columbia, advised me to call it the Columbia School of Mines Building. . . . He had inserted in the floor of the front entrance of the building a tablet reading: 'This building is the gift of Adolph Lewisohn. . . . Mr. Baker was a good adviser in all matters."

Wreckers started to demolish buildings in Manhattan's West 40th and 50th Streets, clearing the way for John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s "Radio City," which is to be named Metropolitan Square. The Fine Arts Federation of New York proposed that the city run a new avenue between Fifth and Sixth Avenues from 42nd Street to Central Park and call it Metropolitan Avenue.

A spokesman for polite Prince Takamatsu & Princess Kikuko of Japan, after their Imperial Highnesses had viewed Niagara Falls, said: "There was a feeling in the royal party that the illumination of the falls which we saw last evening was somewhat gaudy. We are much impressed by the sublimity of this waterfall, but to light it in striking colors is like gilding the lily." Unofficially the Princess said: "Why, this is not what I expected. I thought it would be greater."

Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin refused to participate in a command benefit vaudeville performance before H. M. King George V, sent the vaudeville manager a check for $1,000 instead. Shocked at this apparent affront to Royalty, the London Daily Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether or not I ever make another film. . . . They say I have a duty to England. I wonder just what that duty is? No one wanted me or cared for me in England 17 years ago. I had to go to America for my chance, and I got it there. . . . I am by way of being a student of history. I know that the jester always pays, for the king inevitably kicks him downstairs. The most famous court clowns eventually are beheaded. But what happens to the monarch then? In nearly every case, kicking the jester has presaged the fall of the throne. . . . Patriotism is the greatest insanity the world has ever suffered. I've been all over Europe in the past few months. Patriotism is rampant everywhere, and what is going to be the result? Another war! I hope they send the old men to the front next time, for they are the real criminals of Europe today."

Cinemactress Mary Pickford motored out from Manhattan to Ophir Hall in Purchase, N. Y. to pay a call on H. M. King Prajadhipok, At the gates she said: "My face is my only identification card!" She got in.

For Lux Toilet Soap, Actress Billie Burke, wife of Impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, testified: "I really am 39 years old!* And I don't see why any woman should look her age."

The Maharani of Kashmir, just returned to Jammu City, India from Europe, rode through the streets without a veil, first wife of a ruling Prince to do so. Two hundred thousand Indians packed the streets, peered & cheered from rooftops.

Late one night Felix, Count ("Sea Devil") von Luckner was walking through the business section of Dallas. Tex. when two policemen halted him, wanted to know what he was about. He refused to answer them, so they took away from him a silver pipe presented him by the late Tsar Nicholas. He was kept in jail until his identity had been determined.

President Hoover sent his 13-year-old guest, Bryan Untiedt, back to Towner, Colo., in the custody of a Secret Service operative. They arrived with no fanfare. None of the Untiedt family met them. They drove the 12 mi. to the Untiedt farm and there Bryan, before going back to his work feeding the pigs, distributed gifts he had brought. One was a tablecloth for Mrs. Untiedt from Mrs. Hoover. Another was a cigar for Mr. Untiedt, "from President Hoover himself." It was a rubber cigar.

*According to Who's Who in America, Mrs. Ziegfeld was born Aug. 7, 1886, is 44. Who's Who in the Theatre makes her 45.

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