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

Learning that Philanthropist & Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness were staying at Claridge's Hotel, London, Their Majesties George V & Queen Mary hastened to send them a message. Next day, at the top of the Court Circular, high above the social arrangements of dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons, appeared this item: ''Mr. & Mrs. Edward Harkness had the honor of being received by the King and Queen this morning." Not greeted at a mere Court (there were two last week at which 19 U. S. women were presented), the Harknesses visited Their Majesties in their private study, chatted half an hour. Said the London Times: "The reception . . . may be accepted as a royal expression of gratitude felt by the British people for his benefactions, distinguished no less by the grace with which they were given than by their generous extent. . . ."* Mr. Harkness said nothing.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of George V, fell off his pony during a polo match at Roehampton. onetime King Alfonso of Spain quickly ran out on the field, helped carry him to the dressing rooms.

Mahatma Gandhi announced that when he attends the Federal Structures Committee meeting in London next September he will live in an East End poorhouse called Kingsley Hall and will appear before the King barefoot and clad in loincloth and shawl, weather permitting.

Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept it.

At Yale's new Peabody Museum, the skeleton of Brontosaurus excelsus, a huge plant-eating dinosaur, was placed on formal exhibition by Director Richard Swann Lull./- Discovered in 1881 in the Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow (Wyo.), Yale's Brontosaurus was the first of its genus and species made known to science, is the type specimen. It is nearly 70 ft. long, weighs 6 1/2 tons, is 120,000,000 years old. The skeleton remained unmounted until the University could provide a sufficiently large and substantial place for its display. Another smaller Brontosaurus is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, famed English humorist, looked back over his year's connection with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, commented: "They paid me $2,000 a week--$104,000--and I cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them. . . . It's all so unbelievable, isn't it?"

Visiting Eva Le Gallienne, actress-directrix of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, on her farm near W'eston, Conn., was her good friend Actress Josephine Hutchinson. They went to the basement with a maid to light the gas water heater. The heater exploded, knocked Miss Le Gallienne unconscious, burned her and Miss Hutchinson severely. The maid, also scorched, ran for the gardener. The gardener put out the flames, took the three women to Norwalk hospital. The maid was found not seriously injured, the actresses will recover without disfigurement.

Banker James Alexander Stilltnan of National City Bank arrived in England. Mindful that he is the father of two children by Mrs. Florence H. Leeds, one-time chorus girl, newshawks asked him if he expected to fall in love again. "Well," said he, "English girls are very attractive --and who knows but maybe I shall. But if I do I shall not marry the girl."

Jacob Gould Schurman, longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell, one-time (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany, turned over the new $500,000 University Hall to the University of Heidelberg, where he was once a student. The building, for which Mr. Schurman collected the money, is made of white stone, stands at one side of University Platz, contains an elaborate "senate" room. It is the gift of 37 Americans in recognition of "Heidelberg's helpful service to our culture, science and civilization." Donors whose names were inscribed in a marble tablet included: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., James Speyer, Paul Moritz Warburg, William Averell Harriman, Walter Percy Chrysler, William Fox. The Lord Mayor of Heidelberg announced that the city council had voted to name one of the town's streets Schurmanstrasse. The Gold Honor Plaque of the City of Baden was bestowed on Mr. Schurman by officials of that city.

Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, returned to Paris from a brief Russian junket. Said he: "The people in the streets all walk quickly with grave, preoccupied faces; they do not smile. If they bump into each other they do not apologize. ... In Moscow the Opera is magnificent. . . . Every department is perfect. ... It alone seems to have escaped from politics, for the repertoire is the same as before the War. Children's theatres, which receive special government attention, are nothing but propaganda centres. In one I saw what were represented as aristocratic Red Cross nurses refusing to give common soldiers anything to drink and letting them die."

New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, made news last week when he: i) addressed the graduating class of Vassar College ("The class ignorance of the educated classes about governmental matters is ... most appalling. . . . This letter I received from a lady, a college graduate, who wrote to her Governor to find out why her garbage wasn't removed"); 2) addressed, as a onetime student, the graduating class at smart Groton School ("I have received letters from men of foremost prominence who have asked me why their garbage is not collected every day"); 3) lunched momentously with President-maker Edward Mandell House, Wilson's "silent partner," at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.

Aboard the steamship Roma, Mrs--Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger returned to the U. S. from Nice, where a court had justified her killing her wealthy, elderly husband. Said she: "Sometimes I'm sorry that I am beautiful, considering; all the trouble I've had over it." During the interview Baby Charlotte screamed and Son Fred, 4. beat Grandmother Nash on the head with a paper horn.

*In September 1930, Mr. Harkness placed $10,000,000, with no strings attached, in the hands of five British trustees, the income to be distributed among British charities at the discretion of the trustees. Mr. Harkness has bestowed over $100,000,000 on worthy causes.

/-Other dinosaurs: double-beamed Diplodocus which measured 85 ft. along long tail and long neck; stocky Brachiosaurus which could look over a four-story building; the grappling Iguanodon; spike-tailed Stegosaums with a crest of bony armor-plate along his spine. Alligators and crocodiles are insignificant living relatives of the Dinosaurs who ruled the earth from 420 to 150 million years ago.

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