IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS

(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)

Jack Dempsey: "A facetious editorial writer for The New York Times referred to me as ' Mr. John Dempsey.' My real name, as everyone knows, is William Harrison Dempsey."

Stanley Baldwin: Our World, U. S. monthly publication, whose function it is 'to bear the torch of understanding in a world that is confused,' referred to me as Sir Stanley Baldwin."

Edward W. Bok: "Writing in The Nation, Henry Lewis Mencken, iconoclast, mentioned me, purposely perhaps, as Edwin W. Bok."

Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit's famed baseball player: "In a game against the Philadelphia Athletics I exchanged blows with Third Baseman Riconda, of the opposing team, because he blocked my path as I slid into the base. Thirteen years ago, when another Philadelphia third baseman--' Home Run ' Baker--at-tempted similar tactics with me, I slid into him and ' spiked ' him--and there arose a great scandal."

James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S.: "Speaking before the Hall of Gray's Inn, London, I hailed the U. S. Supreme Court as 'a great lighthouse standing firm even when furious storms of discontent lash the national waters.' Lord Justice Adkins, who presided, mentioned the Court's one-hour time limit for counsels' speeches, and said he had known great English advocates who would find an hour insufficient to get within speaking distance of the real point. Much laughter greeted this sally."

William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus.'"

President Alvero Obregon of Mexico: "In Manhattan, a young man who gave his name as Lamberto Obregon and said, he was my nephew was haled into court as result of conducting an all night ukulele party. Occupants of the apartment house in which the party took place complained to the police because the young man and his companions (who included artists' models, dancers and students) conducted their melodious roisterings without cessation until 10 A. M.!" Jack Johnson, once heavyweight champion of the world: "For a year I have owed Max Mallin of Atlantic City $12.50 for housing my $6,000 automobile. He and some private detectives collected this bill from me and my three sparring partners when we appeared in Atlantic City last week. I also paid $10 costs."

General John J. Pershing: "Seated in the offices of the New York Tele phone and Telegraph Company, I made a short Independence Day address to the youths of our country Said I: 'Most important of all is that young men be taught in time of peace to prepare for war!'"

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt: ."Royalty and noted Americans attended a dinner party and dance given by me at Brook House, Park Lane, London. Among those present were Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin, Colonel and Mrs. E. M. House, Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten.

Adolph Zukor, cinema magnate: "John Roth, father-in-law of my son, Eugene, received by mail in the Oldham Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., of which he is proprietor, a package. Inside he found a wooden cylinder with a screw cap. A few turns of the cap resulted in a deafening explosion, and the hands of my unfortunate in-law were badly burned. Mr. Roth, who knows no enemy, is at a loss to explain the bomb."

Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of former President Wilson: "After twelve years of civic and social work, I have entered the advertising business (the Biow Company, Inc., 116 West 32nd St., Manhattan). On my first day at the office I said: 'It is the duty of every unmarried woman to be selfsupporting. . . . Married women should not seek business careers! '"

The Earl of Northesk: "I quit the Buffalo hospital, where I was operated upon for appendicitis, and am now residing with the stepfather of my fiancee, Miss Jessica Brown, former chorus girl. Until I regain my strength our marriage will not be discussed."

Prince Yusupov (Russian), who helped kill the "mad monk," Rasputin, in 1916: "I have opened a beauty parlor in Paris in the fashionable Faubourg St. Honore. Three of the manicures are Russian princesses, and it is reported that Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt is my financial backer!"

Roscoe Arbuckle, deposed cinema clown: "A vaudeville agent of New York is reported to have guaranteed me $5,000 a week for an indefinite appearance at a cabaret there. He offered to meet me at Grand Central Station with a band. However, I vetoed this and slipped into Atlantic City practically unnoticed. Said I to interviewers: 'I am only an entertainer asking a fair shake to sell laughs to a weary world.' "