Monday, Apr. 07, 1930
"Names make news." Last week the (allowing names made the following news:
Umberto, Crown Prince of Italy, went to bed with the measles.
Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, junketing with wife and daughter in Italy, had a private audience with the Pope, commended the Vatican Library, was given Papal jubilee medals.
President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange had a private audience with King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy.
Samuel Insull, patron, and Giorgio Polacco, conductor, of the Chicago Civic Opera, spent a half-hour explaining U. S. technical and artistic problems to Benito Mussolini.
In 1, 2, 3, latest play of Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright, a businessman asks his stenographer what perfume she uses. To her reply, "Chanel 8," says he: "Try Molineux 22; it is cheaper and smells 37% better." Because of this speech, Playwright Molnar was sued last week in Paris by Perfumer Gabrielle Chanel.
Frederick P. Kenkel of St. Louis, editor of the Central-Blatt & Social Justice (monthly) and Catholic Women's Union Bulletin, was awarded the Laetare Medal, given annually by Notre Dame University to that Catholic layman whose career gives evidence of "distinguished accomplishment for country and church."
Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy, went with his wife and son to Mayo Brothers' clinic at Rochester. Minn., for a thoroughgoing physical examination.
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, set sail from Manhattan with her daughter Roberta and 75 pilgrims for the Holy Land. She said she intended to preach a sermon from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, another (on the evils of gambling) at Monte Carlo, but denied she would fly over Russia dropping pamphlets denouncing religious persecution.
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