People

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

Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, received a telegram: "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark (see p. 24)." Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: "Good. Let's trim Elijah."

Arrived in the U. S. is British Photographer Richard N. Speaight. He will lecture and show an exhibit of his photographs and those of 39 famed European photographers. Photographer Speaight has made pictures of Edward of Wales when he was in a pinafore, of Albert and Elizabeth of Belgium when they were in a barn, of President Coolidge.

To show how various European photographers get their portrait effects, Mr. Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he dressed as a woman for a taker of women's photographs; posing for a man who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and robe.

Stephen S. Wise, rabbi snubbed by European Zionists: "I come back a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was misunderstood and that I would find kindred spirits in Europe, but it is not

"I would want young men," said Capt. Robert Bartlett, last week, "tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we got there." He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship, sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean.

No exploring tyro is "Bob" Bartlett. He is 53. He was with Commander Peary on two of his expeditions to the North Pole. He commanded the Karluk, Canadian government vessel which was splintered to pieces by ice pressure. Last week Capt. Bartlett returned from Siberia, whither he had taken a party from Manhattan's Museum of Natural History.

Capt. Bartlett deprecated airplanes and dirigibles: "They can't dredge, can't take samples of water." He estimated that his freeze-and-drift project would cost $300,000. Purposes: study of magnetic & meteorological conditions, currents, water temperatures; mapmaking; procuring weather data.

Otto Hermann Kahn, banker, caught a fish off West Palm Beach, Fla. A 40-lb. kingfish, his catch was a record. Robert Tyre Jones, golfer, caught a 7-ft. barracuda off Miami, Fla. That was no record.

Frank Jay Gould, fifth child-- of the late famed Jay Gould (1836-1892) has just built a sumptuous $5,000,000 white marble casino at Nice, France. Though scheduled to open, last week, the Casino remained dark, due to the slowness of lazy plasterers, the venom of a storm which injured the roof. Reports that the French Government had denied a casino license to Mr. Gould were denied in Paris.

William H. Richards and William H. Richards-Richards last week arrived in Manhattan, started on a visit through the U. S. William H. Richards is made of aluminum, has electric lights for eyes, responds to a system of radio controls. His greatest accomplishment: speaking for four minutes at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London, when the Duke of York, scheduled speaker, was unable to attend. William H. Richards-Richards is a British mechanical engineer. His greatest accomplishment: making William H. Richards.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. was about to sail for Egypt, with Mrs. Rockefeller and their youngest son David. Reporters demanded to know whether his trip had anything to do with his offer of $10,000,000 for a Museum of Egyptology at Cairo, which was refused. Annoyed, he retorted: "No, no. It hasn't. My trip has nothing to do with that. We are simply going for a rest." With them were his physician, his secretary, also Dr. James H. Breasted who supervises the Rockefeller-supported diggings in Egypt.

*Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 2 Kings 2:11. Appropriate also is And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, I Kings 17:6.

*1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna (Countess Boni de Castellane from 1895 to 1905, but now Princesse de Sagan and Duchesse de Talleyrand. Count Boni de Castellane, who has not yet obtained a Roman Catholic annulment and therefore cannot marry again, is a famed disconsolate character in Paris, where he lives with a famed bulldog.