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

Grace Moore, sightly, luxuriating Metropolitan Opera soprano, went last week to Jellico, Tenn., to sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett.

George ("Buggs") Moran, Chicago gangster, and his crony Leo Mongoven, were arrested for loafing about the Hotel Sherman lobby, both soaked with perfume costing $2 an ounce.

At Los Angeles, George Searcy ("Moran") enjoined Charles E. Sellers ("Mack") from using their black-face comedy team name, "Moran & Mack-- Two Black Crows." Organized in 1917, the team has had several "Morans," one "Mack."

William Bateman Leeds Jr., sportsman, gave his yacht Sinco (onetime boat of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair) to dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York City for official use, probably for the harbor reception of visiting notables.

President Frank Edson White of Armour & Co. (packers) had announced that he would address the company's annual presidents' dinner held simultaneously in Chicago, Sioux City, New York, Oklahoma City, East St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Joseph, Omaha, Fort Worth, Kansas City. At 9 p. m., employes banqueting in all ten cities heard him rap the rostrum, speak to them by means of a sound cinema.

John Davison Rockefeller, at Ormond Beach, Fla., got into an airplane for the first time in his life, allowed himself to be taxied up and down the field, would not fly.

Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri gave Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives a revolver reputed to have belonged to bandit Jesse Woodson James.

Of the late Poet James Whitcomb Riley, said Miss Maude Wells, his one-time stenographer: "Sometimes Riley would go for a year or two without touching liquor. When he did start to drink, he drank until his system was satisfied, however. Drinking was a family curse that ran back for generations."

Any young man whose surname is Leavenworth may compete for a $500 Leavenworth Scholarship at Yale College, announced Yale University's Bureau of Appointments.

John J. Raskob Jr., Yale undergraduate, son of the onetime Democratic National Chairman, forfeited $25 he had posted to appear at Norwalk, Conn., on a charge of driving 65 m. p. h. In 1928 an elder brother, Bill, 19, was killed in an automobile accident.

Sinclair Lewis, best-selling author (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry), petitioned that he be allowed to pay his onetime wife Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis $200 monthly alimony instead of $1,000, having met with "financial reverses."

Frank Brett Noyes, president of the Associated Press, publisher of the Washington Star, on a Mediterranean junket with his wife, was entertained as guest of honor at the Barcelona exposition by Baron de Viver, the city's Mayor.

The three-story Manhattan penthouse apartment of William S. Paley, 27-year-old president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., was given a house-warming while the owner was in Chicago. The decorator, Lee Simonson, theatrical designer, played host, showed the guests a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties; a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase; a bed to live in, equipped with bookshelves, light switches, radio panel.

"The most beautiful sight in the world and one of the rarest these days is a woman doing up her back hair.

"From the painter's point of view, a woman is merely a short-legged animal. In a long skirt . . . the effect of her short legs and disproportionately large head is softened, but cut her off in a horizontal line at her knees and hips and have two awkward Indian club legs dangling below, and you have a problem that is truly impossible. . . ."

Portraitist Charles Webster Hawthorne, prefacing a current Manhattan exhibition of his work (Feb. 3-15).

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