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

Pope Pius XI told an audience of 200 priests: "It is not uncommon now to hear very young children call their fathers 'stupid'' and to hear adolescent youths describe their parents as 'encumbering bag-gage.' This breakdown of domestic discipline constitutes one of the most urgent problems of the present day."

Frances, Countess of Warwick, 68, widow, philanthropist, wrote in the April Cosmopolitan:-"! prophesy with no small amount of confidence that King George V --or maybe his successor--will appear in history as the last monarch of his nation. . . . The Prince of Wales would make an admirable first president of a new republic."

June Day, excitable Manhattan and Paris night club entertainer, went to Manhattan's Independent Artists exhibit (TIME, March 10) to see her portrait by Alfred H. Maurer. Indignant at the impressionistic rendition of her charms, she seized a knife from a bystander, slashed at the picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked that dopey even with a hangover."

Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., eccentric journalist, junketing in Mexico City, directed a cab driver to take him to his hotel. Malicious or misunderstanding, the driver continued toward the city limits until Mr. Vanderbilt tapped him on the skull with the small blackjack he carries for self-defense.

Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, National Broadcasting Co. orchestra director, received word from his daughter, Mrs. Alice Damrosch Pennington, that she had won the gold ski award at the Parsann ski derby for women, at Davos, Switzerland.

A workman, repairing the organ in Edsel Bryant Ford's Detroit home, fumbled, dropped the console cover, smithereened a piece of Persian pottery famed to connoisseurs as the Rhages Bowl, valued at $50.000.

Because Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that has ever been said about me. I am leaving Amarillo on the first train; may I never see it again."

Said Senator Hawes to Senator Oddie:

"Surely, you would not rob a body!"

Said Senator Oddie to Senator Hawes:

"I failed, sir, to note that the car was yours."

Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, driving to work at the Capitol, found that his automobile was not functioning properly. He telephoned a garage, ordered repairs, arranged that the garageman was to leave another automobile for his use. When he was through for the day, Senator Oddie went to the Capitol Plaza, picked out a shiny new Packard sedan, drove home in it. Next morning at breakfast he read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When he went to get his borrowed car to drive to work again, Senator Oddie noticed the car bore Missouri license plates. That, thought Senator Oddie, was most embarrassing. He sped to the telephone, confessed to Senator Hawes, returned his property.

Sir Henry Thornton, president of Canadian National Railways, attending a dinner at Manhattan's University of Pennsylvania Club, saw his name inscribed on the Guggenheim Honor Cup which records the names of distinguished graduates. A member of the class of 1894, he played on the Pennsylvania champion football team of that year.

Ralph Capone, Chicago gangster, brother of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, sent out word that the city's petty "chiselers" (extortioners) must cease' annoying theatrical folk for "benefit money." The Capone order was occasioned by Actress Francine Larrimore's receiving a demand for $1,000. Eddie Cantor, Musicomedy Clown, denied that he had been chiseled into singing at Mr. Capone's Cotton Club.

Fay Lanphier, "Miss America, 1925," returned to the Paramount Cinema Studios at Hollywood--where once she displayed herself in The American Venus-- as a typist.

A crowd of Viennese, welcoming Emil Tannings, German cinemactor, to their city, tore off his necktie, ripped the buttons from his clothing, trampled, kicked, mauled him. Although he was able to appear on crutches at a radio station, his two attending physicians ordered him to bed for five days to recuperate from sprains, contusions.

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