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

British Economist John Maynard Keynes, lecturing in Manhattan on Depression, remarked: "There is nothing President Hoover could do that an earthquake couldn't do better."

At Beverly Hills, Calif., Lawrence Tibbett Jr,, son of the opera and cinema singer, gave a party, took his friends into the family swimming pool. While the party was in progress, Singer Tibbett telephoned his wife from Manhattan. Suddenly she cried: "Larry's drowning!" Singer Tibbett held the wire through a terrifying 20 min. while the party pulled Larry out of the pool, pressed the water from his lungs, revived him. Then Mrs. Tibbett came back to the telephone and said: "He's all right now, dear."

At McLean, Va., a six-ft. snake bit 17-month-old Percy Crosby Jr., son of the

cartoonist of "Skippy." A puppy held the snake at bay until Cartoonist Crosby killed it. It was nonpoisonous.

Composer Rudolf Friml (Rose Marie, Vagabond King, Luana) was ordered arrested in Hollywood for failing to provide for his ailing 19-year-old daughter.

At Pontiac, Mich., Willis M, Brewer,

onetime (1930) national vice commander of the American Legion, was sentenced to from six to 15 years imprisonment for embezzling $2,500 intended for the care of War orphans.

It is customary at the banquet of the graduating class of Wellesley, of which Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was an honorary member this year, for engaged girls to run around the table when their names are called, for married members to stand on their chairs. When the name of Honorary Classmate Hughes was called, he, married 42 years, hopped up on his chair, grinned broadly.

At Reno, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.,

eccentric, kinky-haired socialite, unsuccessful journalist, geographical author (Park Avenue, Palm Beach, Reno), called in the newspaper reporters. He told them that he had seen Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker kissing Mrs. Vanderbilt, that he had just caught Arno bringing Mrs. Vanderbilt home, had chased him with a revolver (Vanderbilt is an honorary Nevada State Policeman), tried to kill him. Later Mr. Vanderbilt's attorney modified the story, said that his client had gone after Mr. Arno but had thought better of it, returned home. There, he said, he discovered that his gun had been unloaded at the time.

Mr. Arno appeared at the office of the Reno Chief of Police, said that if Mr. Vanderbilt had chased him the night before he had not noticed it, but he complained that Mr. Vanderbilt had telephoned that he was going to get a gunman to kill him. Advised the Police Chief: "You look big enough to take care of yourself. If anyone's bothering you, go punch him in the jaw!"

Upshot: Mr. Vanderbilt sued his wife for divorce; threatened to sue Mr. Arno for alienating her affections. Mr. Arno, who is in Reno to get a divorce from Lois Long ("Lipstick" of The New Yorker), meditated a suit against Mr. Vanderbilt for slander.

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