People: Sep. 27, 1926

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Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State: "Last week in Philadelphia as I rode in the tonneau of an automobile with Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia, one Edward Davis, 67, darted into the traffic. We struck him, knocked him down, injured slightly his forehead. Chauffeur Eugene Stevenson was arrested, but the Mayor and I were not molested."

Judge E. H. Gary: "Every year when my birthday comes round the newspapers speak darkly of a pitcher that has gone too often to the well. Last week I was 80. As usual, I failed to announce my retirement as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp. I go to the office every day and stay as long as anyone. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, cheered me up by a bit of smart rhetoric. 'Gladstone,' he said, 'ran the British Parliament when he was past 80; Von Moltke ran the German army when past 80, Pope Leo ran the world-wide Catholic Church at 90. . . .'"

Helen Wills: "Last week a fairly intimate picture of me was given to the public in an interview published by Collier's. But the article was ridiculously inaccurate. For example, it quoted me as saying: 'I used to play frequently with William Johnston, who has been nearly champion often enough to get it some day.' Of course it is absurd that I should say such a thing when, as everyone knows, William Johnston was champion in 1915 and 1919. Also, the article had me speak twice of an English player, named Mrs. McKane. No such character exists. One would not think that Collier's with the third largest circulation among U. S. national weeklies, would make such a stupid error."

Jim Tully, hobo-litterateur: "The October issue of Vanity Fair was published, with an article by me on my late friend, Rudolph Valentino. Of his first wife I wrote: 'She was one of the many zeros in the arithmetic of life.' Of his second wife: . 'While living with her husband in Hollywood, Miss Hudnut became so dictatorial that men associated with Valentino in the making of films did not wish to have her about.'"

H. R. H. Crown Princess Louise of Sweden: "My husband and I were lunching last week at the British Embassy in Tokyo when an evil looking man peeped in at the window. I djd not see him, for I was sitting with my back to the window between the British Ambassador (Sir John Tilley) and the Belgian Ambassador (M. Albert de Bassompierre). Sir John's son, Roger Tilley, who was sitting across the table, saw the man draw a knife and sprang toward the window as the man hurled it in my general direction. The knife entered Roger Tilley's vest just over his heart and would probably have killed him had not his gold cigaret case deflected it. Though confusion ensued I insisted that the luncheon go on as though nothing had happened. The Japanese police at once doubled the guard which attends Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and myself."