Monday, Mar. 25, 1929
"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
The Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang,
Archbishop of Canterbury, made known that he will visit the Holy Land next month; also Athens, to see Mgr. Chrysostom Papadopoulos, Metropolitan of the Greek Church. Dr. Lang will travel on the Corsair, 304 ft. yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Mary Garden is one of those celebrities who has reached for a fat check for endorsing Lucky Strike cigarets. Last week in Dallas, Tex., where she went to appear with the Chicago Civic Opera Company, she felt the need of a cigaret during a press interview. Six newsgatherers offered six brands of cigarets, including Lucky Strikes. Singer Garden reached for a Camel.
Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, made known that he and his wife would soon sail forth on a fishing cruise. The Pinchot ambition: to catch a mammoth manta ("sea devil") such as Explorer-Author William Beebe captured in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Atlanta, Ga., lawyer and family man, announced on his 27th birthday (March 17) that he would compete this year only in the U.S. amateur and open golf championships. In four out of the last five national amateur (match play) championships, Lawyer Jones has been victor. In five of the last six open (medal play) tournaments he has finished either first or second.
To Charles Evans Hughes was paid $75,000 for explaining to the U.S. Supreme Court why more than 5 cents should be charged for a New York subway ride.
Professor Albert Einstein fled last week to the suburbs of Berlin to escape the eulogistic clamor evoked by his 50th birthday. While he quietly ate stuffed pike and mushrooms, his Berlin apartment (No. 5 Haberlandstrasse) was deluged with gifts and messages. The gifts included a house from the City of Berlin, an honorary degree from the University of Paris, a promise that his bust will be placed in the tower of Potsdam, an announcement by U.S. Zionists that land will be acquired near Jerusalem for the planting of a wood to be called Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours."