Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:
Sir Thomas Beecham, musician, pill-maker: "Before my forthcoming departure to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 15) I last week in Belfast reiterated my scornful opinion of the English. Asked for a panacea, I said:
'Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture.'"
Theodore Steinway, piano maker:* "Last week two post cards, mailed simultaneously last October, reached the Collectors' Club, Manhattan, after a haste-post-haste trip in opposite directions around the world. My card, bearing a picture of Governor Smith, arrived first, after a westbound trip to San Francisco, Tokyo, London. The other card, mailed by Hugh Clark, stamp collector, bore a picture of President Coolidge, and arrived four hours later in Manhattan, after an eastbound trip to London, Tokyo, San Francisco. I won $500."
Samuel Untermeyer, corporation lawyer: "My counsel fees are among the highest in the profession. For $100 no one can hire me to walk out my office door, if that walking displeases me. Yet last week I was given a fee of $83.75 for representing Allen R. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan. I was his lawyer when he went bankrupt, after his 1920 corner of Stutz Motor stock, with $9,000,000 of unsecured debts. Last week those debts were liquidated for approximately 18½c on the dollar. My $83.75 represented my original $45,000 fee."
F. E. Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering in the nick of time that Edward of Wales was witkin, they postponed their raid until he had departed."
Edward of Wales: "Mrs. Keld Fenwick (once lurid U. S. actress 'Peggy Marsh'),† the Jewish Belgian billionaire Capt. Alfred Lowenstein and myself hunted with a party last week in my favorite haunt, the Melton Mowbray district. Suddenly Captain Lowenstein's horse bolted, throwing him. Peggy Marsh and I spurred after the beast, which I captured. Captain Lowenstein got up uninjured. At present he is being sued by a French doorman whom he hit in the jaw (TIME, Nov. 8), and two French detectives are in Manhattan tracing $600,000 worth of gems of which his wife was robbed last summer."