People: Apr. 1, 1929

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

Elizabeth Eastdown, of Higham, England, celebrated her 82nd birthday last week. The event would undoubtedly have been overlooked by the press but for the fact that she was once maidservant to Author Charles Dickens and celebrated her birthday by showing visitors a tea set he gave her.

George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage...

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