People: Jan. 10, 1927

Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

David Belasco, play producer:

"Equipped with crackers, a bottle of milk and a play for reading, I was speeding in my limousine down Manhattan's Riverside Drive in the small hours of New Year's Eve last week. Biff, crack, splinter-clatter—the glass of the windows broke about me as another car, revelers within, ran head on into mine. Five stitches had to be taken in my eyelid, and my head is bandaged over other cuts. The...

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