People

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

Anne Morgan, sister of John Pierpont Morgan, attending a meeting at the American Woman's Association's Manhattan clubhouse, hung her $3,000 baby lamb coat in the hall, returned to find a shabby fur garment in its place.

Vincent E. O'Neill, 50, member of the Board of Governors and onetime Vice President of the New York Curb Exchange explained why he was retiring. Said he: "Some years ago I asked a broker friend of mine why he was leaving the Street and he said, 'I prefer to travel on a steamer rather than in a wheel chair,' and I've never forgotten that."

The late Mrs. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth's executors opened her safe deposit box in a Boston bank, expected to find some $50,000 worth of jewelry, found less than $3,000 worth.

Lou Tellegen, actor, fell asleep in an Atlantic City hotel while smoking, was rescued from the blazing bed, taken to a hospital suffering burns on his hips. Against his physician's advice he appeared in the premiere of a new play, Overture.

"If we need American ships and American banks for our foreign trade, our need for an army of trained salesmen and employes is more acute. Following academic education it is, of course, necessary to have practical training. If a man doesn't know his product he is lost, even if he can write as many volumes as Sir Walter Scott. The first necessity for a young man engaged in foreign trade is a knowledge of the particular business in which he is employed. . . . We have seized unfairly the commerce of no people. We have taken no mean advantage of the extremity of others"--President James Augustine Farrell of United States Steel Corp., essaying in the current North American Review.

Dwight Filley Davis Jr. and Cynthia Davis, son and daughter of the Governor-General of the Philippines, automobile riding in Washington with Peter O. de Treschow, Counselor of the Danish Legation, ran into a carful of Negroes, suffered minor cuts and bruises.

George William Cardinal Mundelein's automobile (blue Duesenberg limousine) was stolen while his chauffeur was delivering Christmas presents in Chicago. Detectives found it ten minutes later a few blocks away, arrested the thief.

Ishbel, apple-cheeked daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, received a telegram from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada saying that as a Christmas present a 10,000-ft. peak near Banff was henceforth to be known as Mount Ishbel.

Van Duzer Burton, Baltimore socialite, gave a ball at his home near Monkton, Md. (once the house of dandaical Sportsman Foxhall Keene). At midnight, while the orchestra was playing a waltz, into the ballroom in his pink hunting coat gravely rode Van Duzer Burton on Golden Eagle, his favorite hunter.

Fire swooped upon "Hobcaw Barony," island mansion of Bernard Mannes Baruch at moss-hung Georgetown, S. C., and totally destroyed it. Mr. Baruch and household, uninjured, withdrew to Kingstree, S. C., 30 miles inland.

William Tatem Tilden II, paired with an Englishman, won a tennis doubles match in Paris from Jean Borotra, paired with a Chilean. The stake: Christmas dinner.

Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, fiancee of Italy's Crown Prince Umberto, made a last-minute trip to Paris to complete her trousseau before her wedding, Jan. 8.

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