Present at the opening of Manhattan's 1939 International Flower Show were two newcomers: Dorothy Thompson (a pearly-blue sweet pea) and Brendo (a white-petaled, crimson-lipped orchid).

At a Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot."

Back to Europe tourist class on the Queen Mary, after a few months spent practically incognito in the U. S., sailed the Dame and Seigneur of Sark (Mrs. & Mr. Robert Woodward Hathaway*). Their realm: a tiny Channel island of 600 people, smallest self-governing state of the British Empire, which was chartered in 1565 by Queen Elizabeth and has never had automobiles, politics, divorces, income taxes or crime waves. Said the Dame of Sark: "The last crime trouble we had was several years ago, when a 14-year-old girl ran off with some article from a clothesline. We told her not to do it again. There is a little jail, but I suppose it would be rather hard to get the door open now."

On a visit to Manhattan, blonde British Cinemactress Binnie Barnes babbled: "I don't think sex comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer Mae West. Tell me, would you like to go out with Mae West or would you prefer to go out with me?"

Eve Curie, 34-year-old younger daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, once declared: "I don't hate science, but it just terrifies me." Last week, slim and chic, she arrived in Manhattan with two objects: 1) the "exciting pleasure of buying some American clothes," and 2) to lecture about her great but dowdy mother and other female scientists.

Brought before the Actors' Equity Council, charged with using abusive language backstage, James Barton, who played oathsome, loathsome Jeeter Lester in Jack Kirkland's racy Tobacco Road for 1,674 performances, retorted: "Imagine an actor in a Jack Kirkland show being charged with bad language!" He was ordered to be "reprimanded."

Alleging that the advertising of two products sold under the name of oldtime ageless Actress Edna Wallace Hopper is "exaggerated and untrue," the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Affiliated Products, Inc. of Jersey City. Example: an ad which quoted Miss Hopper as saying, "I am past 60,* yet boys scarcely above college age often try to flirt with me."

"Women like me ... are the safest members of society," declared Novelist Pearl S. (for Sydenstricker) Buck to her fellow alumnae of Randolph-Macon College. But women who do not employ their talents and their education, "they ought to be despised."

* The Dame got her title and authority by inheritance; her husband, Yale '13, got his by marrying her in 1929. * No exaggeration. She is 75.

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