Monday, Aug. 11, 1930

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

Michael John Cudahy, 23, Chicago meat scion, drank poison liquor, went to a Hollywood hospital, convalesced.

U. S. Representative William Robert Wood of Indiana, 69-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, held his breath and dithered with excitement while a Negro diver went over the side of a boat from which Mr. Wood was trolling off Balboa, C. Z. The diver disentangled from the propeller Mr. Wood's fishline, at the end of which was a 10-ft., 127-lb. sail fish, which Mr. Wood then landed.

Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie, Jr., Daughter Mary of the late Tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Newton Duke, set a record: $77,000 duty on personal foreign purchases (jewelry, clothing, souvenirs), largest individual duty ever paid in U. S. history. (Previous record: $35,000.)

The limousine of Princess Giovanna, 22-year-old daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, stopped where one Dante Morani, artilleryman, had fallen from his horse and lay bleeding in the road. The princess got out, bound up Morani's wounds, sped him to a hospital.

Major Sir Charles William James Orr, Governor & Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, clambered from the S. S. Berengaria to a tug at Quarantine, N. Y., caught the outbound S. S. Munargo, saved two weeks between England and Nassau.

Wrote Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps of Yale University, A.B., Ph.D., A.M., Litt.D., in the course of a skit on what life will be like in 2030, contributed to the New York World's funny column:

". . . She (17)--Did you see the new musical comedy 'Tootsie-Wootsie?' It's thrilling. You ought to hear Ada Lipski sing:

"Jack, Jack

"Please come back,

"You're so nice,

"I'm not ice,

"Please come and kiss me in the same place twice."

A passenger to New York from the devastated area in Italy told how William Guard, longtime press agent for the Metropolitan Opera, immediately after the temblors mounted a balcony of his hotel half-dressed, played on a flute to calm the terror-stricken populace milling below.

Three young burglars with handkerchiefs over their faces and guns in their hands entered a dark house in Santa Monica, Calif. A man came down the stairway. The burglars held him up, then one ejaculated: "Oh, gee, it's Doug Fairbanks! I hate to do this but I need the money." Fairbanks chatted with him, gave him $100 cash, ushered him out. Upstairs, Mary Pickford Fairbanks listened silently, hid her expensive jewels.

Arthur Hammerstein, Manhattan show producer, and George Rand, chorusman, broke their fists punching Jack Haskell, dance director of Luana, new Hammerstein musical show. Haskell had tried to discharge Rand, Hammerstein to discharge Haskell.

Wing Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, who in June flew the Southern Cross from Ireland to the U. S., underwent an appendectomy at Middelburg, Holland. He is convalescing at the home of his good friend Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon at Verre.

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