PEOPLE

Two pin-oaks were dedicated in New Brunswick, N. J. at the hitherto treeless home of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees).

Mrs. Maria Magdalene Sieber, better known as Marlene Dietrich, cast her first vote as a U. S. citizen in Beverly Hills, Calif. Asked how she voted on Ham & Eggs, Marlene said: "When I became a citizen they told me my vote was sacred--and for that reason I don't want to tell how I voted."

Proud was old J. P. Morgan, and prouder was his head gardener, James S. Kelly, when, at the swanky Nassau County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society fall show, 22 of the 25 Morgan entries won prizes.

Too set in her ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen.

Editors of the University of South Carolina yearbook, who had asked King George VI to choose pictures of the seven prettiest co-ed students at U. of S. C., received a courteous regret from Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Wrote the Ambassador: "I am sorry . . . the King is very busy conferring with his Ministers on the war situation and has no time for the lighter, if finer, things of life."

In Manhattan, Peter Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn, on trial for stealing money from his German-American Bund, made a grandstand play by telling newspapermen he would like an all-Jewish jury. Said he with a straight face: "Jews have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and are tolerant." The jury: Gentiles 12, Jews 0.

As it must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpaeae, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpaeae, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary.

The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church accepted the resignation of Rt. Rev. Hayward Seller Ablewhite, Bishop of Northern Michigan, ordered his name stricken from its rolls. Reason: the Bishop is serving one to ten years in Jackson, Mich., prison for embezzling $99,000 in diocesan funds (TIME, Aug. 14).

At a Chicago Civic Opera performance of Mignon, Tito Schipa, supposed to carry Gladys Swarthout off stage, let Desire Defrere substitute in the job. Proxy Defrere stumbled, dropped her. Explained Slacker Schipa: "She is, you understand, a little heavy, I do not say she is fat, just a little heavy." Retorted Proxy Defrere, "I slipped on a tack. It was only natural I do the job. Schipa is too puny."

* Norwegian winner of the prize in 1920.

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