People: May 26, 1930

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

Edward Stephen Harkness, whose total benefactions amount to over $100,000,000, gave $1,000,000 to the Boy Scouts of America.

Actress Maude Adams, 58, creator of the role of Peter Pan, whose last Manhattan performance was in 1917, announced that she would return to the stage next autumn.

In Manhattan, the plump hand of Marion Talley, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano, was held by one Gene Dennis, female fortune-telling vaudevillian, who said: "You are going to have an Al

Jolson career rather than a Galli-Curci...

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