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

At Rouen, three weeks ago, a girl named Juliette Brebant played the part of St. Joan of Arc in the 500th anniversary celebration of the Maid's martyrdom. Climax of the proceedings came when pious Mlle Brebant was bound to a stake and had Roman candles and Chinese fire set off about her feet. In a high state of religious ecstasy, she fainted. Last week in a Paris hospital she was still delirious. Doctors despaired of her life.

An anonymous donor gave $50,000, commissioned a sculptor to erect a statue of Pierre Samuel du Pont, rich charitarian in Wilmington, Del., his home town. When Charitarian du Pont learned of the project, he requested the sculptor to return his photographs, said that he was "unalterably opposed."

Scientist Albert Einstein wrote a letter from Potsdam, Germany, to Governor James Rolph of California, appealing for an "absolute pardon" for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren H. Billings, questionably convicted of bombing the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade. Pleaded Scientist Einstein: "I, myself, am of the decided opinion which I must, express, for I cannot lie, that a miscarriage of justice undoubtedly appears in the present case."

White-haired, 49-year-old, onetime Operactress Geraldine Farrar sang for the first time over the radio (NBC network for Packard).

Newly perched last week on the desk of His Majesty King George sat the 2,000,000th telephone installed in Great Britain. The U. S. has 20,154,000.

"He left New York with his little command by steamer for Panama City and crossed the Isthmus, a flat country barren of people, on horse to Colon, where they again took steamer for San Francisco." When Panamaian editors read that paragraph from an article on the late General Philip Henry Sheridan written for the Saturday Evening Post by Joseph Hergesheimer -- they invited Author Hergesheimer to visit Panama, learn something about its geography.* Recently Mark Gosling, member of the legislative assembly of New South Wales, prominent Australian radical Socialist, began a crusade to form "Socialist cells" in Australian universities. Came news last week that Mr. Gosling has been repulsed from campus after campus with derisive shouts of "Bovril! Bovril!"

In Australian slang "Bovril!", according to despatches describing Mark Gosling's misfortunes last week, is equivalent to "Applesauce!"

Throughout the Empire and elsewhere "Bovril puts beef into you!"

The peer who puts beef into bovril, a beef extract on which the sun never sets, is George Lawson Johnston Luke, Chairman of Bovril Ltd. Bovril profits put him into the peerage as Baron Luke of Pavenham in 1929. At about the time of his creation he was Hon. Secretary of the Thank Offering for the King's Recovery: i. e. loyal British subjects contributed money to this charitable fund as tangible proof that they really were glad that the King-Emperor's doctors had saved him. Belle Livingstone, aged, notorious and bankrupt Manhattan saloonkeeper, was about to depart for Reno in an expensive car with chauffeur and maid. To her hotel at 4 a. m. came a dressmaker demanding $162 for four recently purchased dresses. Belle Livingstone, who served 30 days in jail for contempt five months ago (TIME, Feb. 16), said that she had nothing smaller than a $1,000 bill, asked the dressmaker to follow her to a speakeasy to get change. They went to several speakeasies, got no change. Then Belle Livingstone told the dressmaker to follow her to a ferry station. When the dressmaker got to the ferry station Belle Livingstone had left, so she took her troubles to a police station. Belle Livingstone was arrested for grand larceny in Rochester; a policeman sent to return her. Pending is a suit for $500,000 by Belle Livingstone against Conde Nast Publications, Inc., publishers of Vanity Fair, which nominated her for oblivion (see p. 26).

*Colon is on the Atlantic side, Panama City on the Pacific. What confused Author Hergesheimer is the fact that the Isthmus twists to the extent of almost doubling back on itself, hence the sun appears to rise in the Pacific, set in the Atlantic.

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