"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Jack, second son of President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Co., began work behind the counter of a chain grocery store at San Francisco. Said he: "The romance has gone out of railroading. The pioneering has all been done. In this [grocery] business, it's just starting." "The Fashionable Forties," an article in Vogue praising the new women's styles, was signed by Grace Hegger Lewis, one time wife of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. She described herself: "I am five feet seven, small of waist and long of leg, but my calves are too fat and my shoulders too broad. ... In this new costume, I was as slender as my small waist, and I did not have to agonize over how my poor defenceless legs were looking from the rear..." A collection of letters between George

Bernard Shaw and the late actress Ellen Alicia Terry were brought to Manhattan for publication by Editor Elbridge L. Adams of the Fountain Press. Editor Adams had obtained the correspondence after two years of negotiation with Mr. Shaw and with Miss Terry's children, Edith Craig and stage Designer Edward Gordon Craig. Advance quotations from the letters written by Shaw were not permitted. Some of Miss Terry's letters be gan "Dear Bernie." She chided, cajoled, advised. The correspondence opened in 1892, when Shaw was 36 and a music critic for the London World. That year his first play was produced. Ellen Terry was at the height of her spectacular career. They did not meet for some time after ward and met only about a half-dozen times in all, though they corresponded weekly, at one period daily, until 1925. In 1898 Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshead who often met Miss Terry, became her fast friend. Miss Terry was married three times: to Painter George Frederic Watts, to Actors E. A. Wardell and James Carew.

The correspondence is a curious example of purely epistolary courtship. "I'm so pale when I'm off stage and rouge becomes me, and I know I shall have to take to it if I consent to let you see me," wrote Miss Terry at the outset. Later she said: "I didn't like you when you first wrote to me. I thought you unkind and exceedingly stiff and prim." In 1896 when Shaw was beginning to be recognized as a playwright Miss Terry determined to call on him, but found he was in conference with Sir Henry Irving, her manager. She wrote: "Got no farther than the doormat. Heard your voice and skuddled home again, full tilt, and, oh, how I was laughing! . . ." In 1905, when Miss Terry acted in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, she wrote: "You have become a habit with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into pieces of eight allowed but 45 degrees per mouth. True, there were four corners to the eight-section pie with crust on two sides, but . . . that was why you ate pie. If you preferred filling to crust, you might just as well eat apple sauce. .

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