"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Just before she went on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to rehearse her part in the Opera Ball, Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan left her purse in Box 1, next to the stage. When she finished rehearsing Mrs. Ryan found that a sneak thief had taken her $850 bag, her $250 cigaret case, her $135 pocket money. Among four other rehearsing socialites robbed of $6,000 or more in jewels and cash was Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton whose husband is J. P. Morgan's nephew.

Said Vice President John Nance Garner, when the American Magazine offered him $2,000 for an article he had written: "Nobody would pay John Garner a dollar a word for any article, and nobody can pay the Vice President a cent for it. If you want it you're welcome to it."

Friends of James A. Farley told how, professing to know nothing about horses, the Postmaster General had won $35 on a 17 1/2-to-1 shot on a horse named Jane Ellen. Explained he: "Ellen was my mother's name and I like it."

Because Actress Ethel Barrymore was not in to a process server who called at her Mamaroneck, N. Y. home three times a day for seven days, Hill Brothers, Ltd., London clothiers, obtained a court order to nail to her door a summons to their -L-86 suit on an unpaid bill.

From Rome, Senator Guglielmo Marconi wired his London associates: "I hope to surprise you in a year or two as I surprised you in 1901 with transmission across the Atlantic."

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