People: Oct. 1, 1928

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Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of a hero, got headlines last week in Naples, Rome and Constantinople newspapers. She left Naples last week for Rome; flew from Brindisi to Constantinople where she will teach chemistry at the American Women's College.

"I am not Lindbergh," cried a slim, tall, blond youth as a crowd rushed at him and cheered him on a Paris boulevard one afternoon last summer. He was correct. His name is Pierre Tristan, department store clerk. The crowd had been deceived by his physical appearance and by a false French newspaper report that Hero Lindbergh was in Paris. Sacha Guitry, actor, manager, playwright, heard of the incident, wrote a play about Lindbergh's actual experiences in France, added a love theme, signed Pierre Tristan to play the lead. Last week stage-shy and crowd-shy Tristan was going through rehearsals.

Queen Victoria of Sweden, chronic invalid, inherited last week from her brother, the Duke of Baden, the Island of Mainau in Lake Constance, Germany, on which flourish banana and palm trees.

If you want to buy the Newport, R. I. house of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and have Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor as your neighbors, you must bid somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, accompany your bid with a certified check for $50,000 (deposit), and be a person acceptable to Newporters. The successful purchaser will be announced on Oct. 10 in the central hall of the house. The original cost of this white marble dwelling was $5,000,000.

*Figurative. Mr. Burt is 46 years old; the American Mercury four and a half years old. *He was one of the judges in the second Tunney-Dempsey fight.* Address: 31 Hillway, High Gate, N. 6, London, England.

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