People, Nov. 22, 1937

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

As he had done practically every morning for the last 6,940, 78-year-old Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime German Kaiser, began his 20th year of exile in The Netherlands by chopping wood.

Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from...

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