Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:
Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder,
Scottish singer: "From West Virginia I wrote in support of Sunday observance in England: 'I am against Sunday theatre shows and have told my fellow artists if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre, and the curses of generations to come will be forever at the stage door. Men who disregard God's word and God's work can never hope to be respected. When for the first time I came to America I had four Sunday performances and a more miserable engagement I never fulfilled. I felt I was doing something against my religion, something which I had been taught by my mother was wrong. It was unnatural for me to work on the Sabbath and I felt ashamed of it.' "
Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, wife of the largest holder of U. S. railway stocks (TIME, Jan. 24): "Back in Manhattan after a five-weeks' countrywide tour in behalf of the World Service Council of the Y. W. C. A., of which I am chairman, I declared that women give less to charity than men. Reason: a woman's giving power is usually dependent upon what her husband gives her to give. And, said I: 'A man who is generous personally to appeals often keeps his wife on a sum for her own donations that, by comparison, is a pittance.' This is why movements appealing primarily to women receive few notably large gifts."
Adolphe Menjou, sophisticated cinema actor: "When I walk about the Hollywood streets these days, few know me. In Evening Clothes, now being filmed, I appear in full beard. The beard is real."
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice Hely Hutchinson (writing for the Century) all attacked my famed criticisms of corporations. They agreed with me that many holders of common stocks are ignorant, lazy, simple. The Government should look after the investing simpleton, I have written. These three men say he should look after himself."
Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them."
James Branch ("Jurgen") Cabell,