PEOPLE

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

Gram Dunham, 71, wife of Mellie Dunham (Henry Ford's famed Maine fiddler), went into the woods near Norway, Me. with a rifle, killed a buck deer, dragged it home, butchered it for steaks & chops. Said she: "When a family in the country needs fresh meat, a rifle in the hand is worth two fiddles."

Friends of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were just as surprised as friends of Irene Bordoni, musicomedienne (Paris), to see Mrs. Wilson's name under Miss Bordoni's picture by mistake in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Last week's news of the two ladies:

Mrs. Wilson, in Peiping, China, was telling about her Orient-touring experiences, including a $3 ride in a baggage car to see the Great Wall. The conductor, learning his passenger's identity, got her a chair, a supply of tea, rice cakes, persimmons.

Miss Bordoni, in Chicago, was telling a judge she deserved a divorce from E. Ray Goetz, Manhattan theatrical producer, because he married her within one year of his Illinois divorce from another woman, which is forbidden in Illinois.

President Don Horacio Vasquez of the Dominican Republic, ill of a kidney ailment, flew (Pan American Airways) to Havana, to Miami, entrained for Baltimore where he, and perhaps his sick wife, will undergo treatment at famed Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Princess Ileana of Rumania, sailing her yacht from Balcik to Constanta, ran aground on a Black Sea sand bank. The escorting gunboat Lieutenant Dimi-rescut, coming to the rescue, also ran aground, tugged, pulled, finally freed itself and Ileana's yacht.

Count Andreas Bethlen, youngest son of Hungarian Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen, was sentenced in Budapest to three days State detention for sabre-hacking a Count Almassy in a duel. For his part in the duel, which originated in a bar when a lady's name was lightly mentioned, Count Almassy will serve two days State detention--confinement under supervision with privilege of receiving guests, eating self-provided food.

Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that "the affair died a natural death. I thought everyone understood that."

Pierre Samuel duPont, board chair-man of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, cellulose products), chairman of General Motors Corp., State Tax Commissioner of Delaware,* made known that he had bought a $250,000 pipe organ which will be brought in 14 freight cars this week to a specially constructed $750,000 building on his Kennett Square, Pa., estate where it will be played for him by Firman Swinnen, onetime Antwerp Cathedral organist.

Alfred I. DuPont caused a survey to be made of Delaware's aged poor so that the legislature might be persuaded to pension them. Last year, after a similar survey, the legislators were apathetic, Mr. DuPont gave the money himself.

Cecile Sorel, eagle-nosed Parisian comedienne, appeared in the role of Sappho at the Comedie Francaise with a straight Grecian nose. Like U. S. Actress Fanny Brice (in 1926) she had "had her old nose condemned, razed, and a high-class modern structure erected on the site."

Gloria Swanson, slant-eyed cinemactress, denied she was beautiful. Said she: "There is only one beautiful woman in the movies: That is Corinne Griffith. The rest of us are just types. I'd like to be the feminine type with a masculine mind. Better yet, the feminine type with no mind at all. Then you would have no dark moments, no days when the rain came down and you went wild" (see p. 16 ).

*Reappointed last week by Governor P. Douglass Buck for another four-year term.