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Lounging about his villa at Celigny on Lake Geneva, wavy-haired Composer Ernest Schelling heard a woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attaché of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer Schelling disengaged Mrs. Pell's skewered leg, took her ashore. Revived, in care of doctors (who found no permanent injury), Mrs. Pell explained that the accident occurred as she was diving overboard.
In payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop drift. Even after running up a bill for four days' wages without getting anywhere, they refused to head for any port. Finally, in return for all of Minevitch's money, his snappy yachting clothes, and the sloop itself, they put him aboard a fishing boat which took him ashore. Snorted Showman Rothafel: ". . . up to one of his well known jokes."
After 20 years in which he had made the Adlon Berlin's most famed hotel, obsequious, frock-coated Manager Ewald Kretschmar resigned. Smartest Berlin hotel is the Esplanade, but the Adlon's bar is a rendezvous where everyone meets everyone sooner or later.
Famed English fathers and their sons were the guests of Father Winston Churchill at a coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake with 21 twinkling candles.