People, Mar. 14, 1932

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

One Charlie Cope of Two Rivers. Wis. wrote his wartime friend James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney to ask if he had once taken part in a brawl in a bistro in Romorantin, France. Wrote Fighter Tunney: "How nice of you to send me such a charming letter! It must have been another Marine."

Said Ethel Barrymore, throatily: "It seems to me, sitting at this table with Hauptmann, as if I were sitting at a table with Beethoven, Heine, Goethe — and Hauptmann. Thank you. I can say...

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